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A post with some book reviews

Black Sunday by Thomas Harris

Suffer the Children by John Saul

Cecile is Dead by Georges Simenon

Maigret, Lognon, and the Gangsters by Georges Simenon

Maigret at Picratt's by Georges Simenon

November 14, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Black Sunday – 3/5 This is the first novel by Thomas Harris, of Hannibal Lecter fame, and it’s a weird one. The logline, especially if you’ve seen the movie, is that a madman is trying to blow up the Super Bowl with a blimp. And that’s kind of right. Instead of it being a madman, we’re in the middle 1970s and novels about terror groups is all the rage. I am thinking specifically of books like Day of the Jackyl, which while mostly about an […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: georges simenon, John Saul, Thomas Harris

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:641 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: georges simenon, John Saul, Thomas Harris ·
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