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1 month ago | 
judithdcollinsconsulting.com | Lou Berney |Judith Collins
A Suspenseful Multigenerational Saga of a Crime Family's Dark Legacy, Unforgettable Corruption, and the Inescapable Shadow of the Underworld... A Novel About Crime and FamilyISBN: 9780063445574Publisher: William Morrow Publication Date: 09/09/2025 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBRFrom award-winning author Lou Berney comes an electrifying new novel that follows a uniquely American crime family on an unforgettable journey across four decades.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Lou Berney |s We Love |Isabelle McConville
They’re Old Friends: A Guest Post by Lou Berney From November Road to Dark Ride, Whiplash River and more, we’ve loved reading Lou Berney’s work for years. Now, two of our favorite characters are back — Shake and Gina take on the shadowy underbelly of Cambodia. Read on for Lou’s exclusive essay on the moment he knew he wanted to write Double Barrel Bluff and revisit his favorite duo.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Lou Berney
Shake Bouchon believed that he was thousands of miles removed from his past until he came face to face with a hulking enforcer named Dikran Ghazarian. Shake’s reluctance at this unprompted reunion is illustrated when he attempts to flee from the thug and later hopes to incapacitate him when he is unable to escape his clutches. After landing a few impactful hits on Shake, Dikran explains the reason for his arrival.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Mark Broatch |Lou Berney |Vanda Symon |John Banville
Expectant by Vanda Symon, The Lock-Up by John Banville and The Secret Hours by Mick Herron. Photos / SuppliedAll the Sinners Bleedby SA Cosby (Headline) Southern noir in which a black FBI agent-turned-local sheriff faces a Pandora’s box of secrets after a high school shooting. Fourth crime novel from Cosby soaks readers in the racial and political complexities of the American South.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Craig Sisterson |Lou Berney |Val McDermid |Chris Hammer
Dark Ride by Lou Berney, Past Lyingby Val McDermid and The Sevenby Chris Hammer. Photos / SuppliedDark Rideby Lou Berney Good things come to those who wait, my mum always told me. For readers used to a book a year from many favourite authors, three books in 10 years is glacial. But as Oklahoma author Lou Berney (and thriller rarities like John Hart and our own Liam McIlvanney) show, patience can pay.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
crimereads.com | Lou Berney
When I was a kid, Superman bored me. The dude is invincible! He can fly and see through walls and crush lumps of coal into diamonds! Where’s the fun in a flawless, all-powerful character? I preferred more realistic heroes—ordinary people whose fates were truly uncertain. In 1975, I snuck into a movie theater to see Jaws. I was 10 years old and traumatized for life when that poor skinnydipper got yanked under the water. But I loved Chief Brody. He was the kind of hero I could get behind.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
freshsociety.info | Miller Sanford |Lou Berney
ReviewDark RideBy Lou BerneyWilliam Morrow: 256 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The hero of Lou Berney’s new thriller, “Dark Ride,” isn’t an unreliable narrator so much as a perpetually stoned one, taking bong rips and sparking up his one-hitter and passing along a joint as effortlessly as he breathes.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Lou Berney
Notes From Your Bookseller “The Dude Abides” in Lou Berney’s fifth novel. Our favorite thing about Berney is each novel (aside from the Shake Bouchon duology) is a different adventure. And the rug that ties them all together is his underdog heroes who face a journey with the odds stacked against them. No matter the outcome and no matter how unconventional, Berney’s characters are fierce protectors with a code of honor. This, of course, gives them character and you, the reader, an exceptional story.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Lou Berney
Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you needTwenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardly” Reed—good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned—is drifting through life. A minimum-wage scare actor at an amusement park, he avoids unnecessary effort and unrealistic ambitions. Then one day he notices two children, around six or seven, sitting all alone on a bench. Hardly checks if they’re okay and sees injuries on both children. Someone is hurting these kids.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Lou Berney
From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark RideSometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you needTwenty-one-year-old Hardy "Hardly" Reed--good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned--is drifting through life. A minimum-wage scare actor at an amusement park, he avoids unnecessary effort and unrealistic ambitions. Then one day he notices two children, around six or seven, sitting all alone on a bench.
