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Oklahoma native Lou Berney is the award-winning author of several crime novels, including Dark Ride , November Road , and The Long and Faraway Gone . His new novel, Crooks , follows four siblings who each find separate paths toward carrying on their parents’ crooked legacy.

‘In a Lonely Place’ by Dorothy B. Hughes (1947)

This is such a dark, beautiful crime novel , and it’s also a master class in the powers of narrative perspective and interiority. The faint throb of unease that runs through the story is brilliantly handled. In a Lonely Place is both way ahead of its time and exactly of its time, and it still chills me every time I re

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