The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
Marcus Sakey sets his new book — he's the author of the widely praised The Blade Itself — once again in his beloved Chicago. And, like its two predecessors, Good People is a primer on what's really good and what might be better in Sakey's work, as the author finds his voice in the wildly popular crime thriller genre.
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
... year for crime fiction, a lot of it from Chicago writers such as Sara Paretsky (Bloody Kansas), Marcus Sakey (Good People) and other members of the local blog called . But Sean Chercover’s second book about Dudgeon, after last year’s terrific Big City, Bad Blood, manages to rise to a unique height, even in that exalted company. He seems well on his way to becoming the of his time,...
Word Nerd (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
Title: Good People Author: Marcus Sakey Length: 326 pages Genre: Crime/thriller Plot Basics: Chicagoans Tom and Anna Reed are weighed down by debt from their attempts to have a child through IVF. When they suddenly find almost $400,000 tucked away in their tenant's apartment after he dies, they think their money troubles are over. Only Tom and Anna aren't the only ones who think the money...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
... Ali Karim, and Jason Starr goes to accept the Crimespree Reader AwardAuthors Stuart MacBride and Marcus Sakey (, ) and (Expletive Deleted)Novelist , organizer Judy Bobalik, and Bouchercon’s International Guest of Honor, author British writers and --journalist, TV writer-producer (Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire), and Laura Lippman’s husband--along with , who was commended during...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... The Spellman Files, by Lisa Lutz (Simon & Schuster); , by Craig MacDonald (Bleak House); and , by Marcus Sakey (St. Martin’s Minotaur)A Thousand Bones, by P.J. Parrish (Pocket), by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster); Slide, by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr (Hard Case Crime); (Ballantine); and Baby Shark’s Beaumont Blues, by Robert Fate (Capital Crime)Best Short Story: Hardly Knew Her,” by...
Lesa's Book Critiques (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. L.J. Sellers' The Sex Club will go to Berny H. in Potosi, MO. Marcus Sakey's Good People will go to Corey P. from Escondido, CA. The books will go out in the mail Friday. Since I had the chance to see Dennis Lehane last Friday night, I bought two paperbacks and had them autographed. So, you could win an autographed copy of one of Dennis...
Lesa's Book Critiques (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
I'm off to teach a Readers' Advisory class in Chandler today, and I've spent the week getting ready, so I don't have a blog this morning. Feel free to talk among yourselves. Or, take one last opportunity to enter this week's contest for The Sex Club by L.J. Sellers or Marcus Sakey's Good People . Check last Thursday for details on entering the contest. Tonight, I'll announce the winners,...
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... fantasy but crime, and the author was not me, but a very pleasant young man from Chicago called Marcus Sakey.Allow me to explain.[]
Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... Kristiana Rae Colón, Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Michelle Goldberg, Tom Geoghegan, Marcus Sakey, Libby Hellman, Carlos Cumpian and Cris Mazza. I'm the MC. (I am S.L. Wisenberg.) The format of the evening: 5:30 pm-Reception and silent auction of signed books (by the above as well as Rick Perlstein, Ayun Halliday, Paula Kamen and Reginald Gibbons). 6:30 pm--Very very brief readings...
