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Feb 21, 2024 | 
sfbook.com | Jahmal Mayfield |Sam Tyler
There is a reason that criminal gangs fall apart. As an individual you can take responsibility for your own action, plan ever detail and keep your mouth shut when the job is done, but what about the others? They may be getting cold feet or have a loudmouth. The Smoke Kings are a group that started off with a just mission behind their crimes, but as time passes and fractures in their relationships open, they come closer to a resolution none of them wanted – prison or death.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
theifp.ca | Ashley Tate |Jahmal Mayfield |Janice Hallett
By Ashley TateDoubleday Canada, 360 pp., $26.95 Toronto writer Ashley Tate is in full William Faulkner mode in her debut thriller: not only is the past not dead, it’s decidedly not even past.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
toronto.com | Steven W. Beattie |Ashley Tate |Jahmal Mayfield |Janice Hallett
Twenty-Seven MinutesBy Ashley TateDoubleday Canada, 360 pp., $26.95Toronto writer Ashley Tate is in full William Faulkner mode in her debut thriller: not only is the past not dead, it’s decidedly not even past.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
amandallwyd.wixsite.com | Jahmal Mayfield
by Jahmal MayfieldSYNOPSISIn the vein of Get Out and Razorblade Tears, a feast of noir fiction and probing social commentary that asks us to consider what would happen if reparations were finally charged and exacted. Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets 62 years after Emmett Till.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Jahmal Mayfield
In the vein of Get Out and RAZORBLADE TEARS, SMOKE KINGS is Jahmal Mayfield’s widely praised debut novel. This powerful and propulsive work of fiction asks us to consider what would happen if reparations were finally charged and exacted. In this interview conducted by Michael Barson, Senior Publicity Executive at Melville House, Mayfield talks about his inspiration for writing his first book and the challenges that went along with it.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
largeheartedboy.com | Jahmal Mayfield
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Jahmal Mayfield’s novelSmoke Kings is a haunting debut, a dark and affecting literary thriller.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
shotsmag.co.uk | Jahmal Mayfield
Written by Jahmal Mayfield
My bookshelf is bursting with crime novels. Visitors to my home often remark on the breadth of titles and ask if I’ve read them all. Not all, I’ll say, noting that some belong to my wife. Usually, the conversation will then veer to asking for recommendations. That’s the moment I light up, eyes wide with joy. I love sharing the books that have shaped me. Novels such as Dennis Lehane’s MYSTIC RIVER. Or Walter Mosley’s DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
finnoexpert.com | Samarth Pophale |Jahmal Mayfield |Sarah-Jane Collins |Tracy Sierra
Reading List4 Blazing Debut Thrillers for WinterIf you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. This coming year will bring a slew of new mysteries from old hands. But before the onslaught, let’s take a moment to celebrate new authors, whose path to becoming published is fraught with more obstacles than one might imagine.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Margot Douaihy |Jahmal Mayfield |Lizzie Pook |Rachel Kapelke-Dale
Douaihy follows up Scorched Grace with another deliriously enjoyable, relentlessly plotted adventure for chain-smoking “punk nun” Sister Holiday Walsh. Sister Holiday spends her days teaching music at Saint Sebastian’s School in New Orleans, and her nights operating the newly established Redemption Detective Agency alongside former fire inspector Magnolia Riveaux. After a potential client stands the women up for a consultation, they stumble on a priest’s corpse floating in the Mississippi River.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jahmal Mayfield |Lizzie Pook |Rachel Kapelke-Dale |Teresa Dovalpage
Wendy Church. Severn House, $31.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4483-1259-7In this tasty series opener, Church (the Jesse O’Hara series) introduces 20-something Chicago chef Sagarine Pfister, who quickly gets tangled up in the Windy City’s criminal underworld. One evening, Sagarine arrives at work to find her boss, executive chef Louie Ferrar, dead in the kitchen’s walk-in freezer.
