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About Mean Streets
Mean Streets is mostly a crime fiction review blog. It's a collaboration between various crime-addicts, many of whom write crime fiction themselves. We welcome your comments and also welcome new reviewers. Either add your comments to a post on the left or get in touch.The Master Criminal
Mean Streets was set up by Harry Bingham, a bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction. The first of his new series of crime thrillers will be published summer 2012. He also runs The Writers' Workshop, an editorial agency for writers offering critiques, courses and mentoring.
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Tag Archives: Barb Ettridge
Frank Bill Interview, by Barb Ettridge
The straight-talking and totally charming Frank Bill talks about his background, and how he draws on his life experience to build his wonderfully real characters and settings. Recently I got to read the hay ride through hell that is the … Continue reading →
Crimes in Southern Indiana, by Frank Bill
Listen up fellas, we got a live one here. A wild bunch of bad-asses being seriously bad, and causing a multiple train wreck that you can’t look away from. Frank Bill explodes out of the blocks and maintains a sprint … Continue reading →
The Stone Gallows, by C. David Ingram
A tale that rubs at the raw edge of failure, where the empathy of the reader is engaged in the hope that the lead character can somehow find a way out. Cameron Stone is fighting a crowd of phantoms. When … Continue reading →
Good As Dead, by Mark Billingham
A story that goes off like a Catherine wheel – at speed and spinning through multiple themes that are brought together in a desperate sprint to the finish. Mark Billingham’s popular character, DI Tom Thorne is dragged back into a … Continue reading →
Matt Hilton Interview by Barb Ettridge
Matt Hilton brings his background of policing and working in security to developing the crime thrillers that follow the adventures of Joe Hunter. With Dead Men’s Dust, Judgement and Wrath, Slash and Burn, Cut and Run, and Blood and Ashes, … Continue reading →
R J Ellory Interview by Paul D Brazill
Barb’s smashing review of R J Ellory’s Saints Of New York reminded me of a fun interview I did with him last year. So, here’s part of it. I got into my private helicopter and flew to England to interrogate him with … Continue reading →
Saints of New York, by R. J. Ellory
A multi-layered story of a fight for redemption against the past, corruption, police internal affairs and the larger-than-life legacy of a decorated father. Within this, the drive to solve a pattern of connected homicides is the one thing that provides … Continue reading →
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