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• The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths: The Best New Original Stories of the Genre - 2020 Mango, Coral Gables, FL
• Venice Noir (Akashic Noir) (Editor) - 2012 Akashic Books, Brooklyn, NY
• Monsieur: An Erotic Novel (Emma Becker (Author), Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)) - 2012 Arcade , New York, NY

• Crime Writers’ Association website - https://thecwa.co.uk/maxim-jakubowski

  The Red Herring Award 2019
  Maxim Jakubowski
  winner

• Amazon -

  Maxim Jakubowski is a British writer and editor who has lived in Italy and returns there annually. He co-edited ROME NOIR, with Chiara Stangalino, and has also assembled London and Paris volumes for other publishers. His new novel Ekaterina and the Night is partly set in Venice and his non-fiction book of essays about the real cities of crime fiction Following the Detectives has been shortlisted for the MacAvity Award. He lives in London when not travelling the world.

• Fantastic Fiction -

  Maxim Jakubowski
  (b.1944)

  MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI worked for many years in book publishing as an editor (including titles by William Golding, Peter Ackroyd, Oliver Stone, Michael Moorcock, Peter Ustinov, Jim Thompson, David Goodis, Paul Ableman, Sophie Grigson, Marc Behm, Cornell Woolrich, etc) and launched the Murder One Bookshop, which he owned and ran for over 20 years. He now writes, edits and translates full-time in London.

  He was born in London and educated in France, and his books have been translated into many languages. From an early age, he was always fascinated by popular culture and his writing and editing has criss-crossed all areas, from science fiction & fantasy to thrillers and, inevitably, erotica.

  Genres: Mystery, , Historical Mystery, Science Fiction

  New Books
  September 2019
  (kindle)

  The Extraordinary Book of Amateur Sleuths and Private Eye Stories
  July 2020
  (paperback)

  The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths

  Maxim Jakubowski's books for adults only

  Novels
  The Louisiana Republic (2018)

  Novellas
  71-73 Charing Cross Road (2011)

  Series contributed to
  The Mammoth Book of ...
  The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction (1996)
  The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper (1999)
  The Mammoth Book of Internet Adventure (2000)
  The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action (2001)
  The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime (2002)
  The Mammoth Book of On the Road (2002)
  The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road (2002)
  The Mammoth Book of Future Cops (2003)
  The Mammoth Book of Vintage Whodunnits (2005)
  The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime (2009)
  The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries 6 (2009)
  The Mammoth Book Best International Crime (2009)
  The Mammoth Book of the World's Best Crime Stories (2009)
  The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries 7 (2010)
  The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 (2011)
  The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries 8 (2011)
  The Mammoth Book of British Mysteries (2011)
  The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 9 (2012)
  The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries 9 (2012)
  The Best British Crime Omnibus: Volume 7, 8 and 9 (2012)
  The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 10 (2013)
  The New Mammoth Book Of Pulp Fiction (2014)
  Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 11 (2014)
  The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Moriarty (2015)
  The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories (2015)
  The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Professor Moriarty (2016)

  Akashic Noir
  Rome Noir (2009) (with Chiara Stangalino)
  Venice Noir (2012)

  Anthologies edited
  Travelling Towards Epsilon (1976)
  Twenty Houses of the Zodiac (1979)
  Chronolysis (1980) (with Michel Jeury)
  Lands of Never (1983)
  Beyond Lands of Never (1984)
  New Crime: No. 1 (1989)
  New Crimes (1990)
  New Crimes 2 (1991)
  New Crimes 3 (1991)
  Constable New Crimes 1 (1992)
  Murders for the Fireside (1992)
  New Crime: No. 2 (1993)
  London Noir (1994)
  Royal Crimes (1994) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  Crime Yellow (1994)
  More Murders for the Fireside (1994)
  No Alibi (1995)
  Past Poisons (1998)
  Chronicles of Crime (1999)
  Murder Through the Ages (2000)
  The New English Library Book of Internet Stories (2000)
  Pulp Fiction (2002)
  The Best British Mysteries IV (2003)
  The Best British Mysteries 2005 (2004)
  Great Tv and Film Detectives (2005)
  The Best New British Mysteries Volume II (2005) (with Mark Billingham)
  The Best British Mysteries III (2006)
  Paris Noir (2007)
  The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries (2008)
  The Sounds of Crime (2010)
  The Book of Extraordinary Historical Mystery Stories (2019)
  Invisible Blood (2019)
  The Extraordinary Book of Amateur Sleuths and Private Eye Stories (2019)
  The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths (2020)

  Non fiction
  The Rock Yearbook, 1981 (1980)
  The Rock Album (1983)
  Wit and Wisdom of Rock and Roll (1983)
  The Complete Book Of Science Fiction And Fantasy Lists (1983)
  The SF Book of Lists (1983) (with Malcolm Edwards)
  Who's Who in Rock Video (1984)
  The Great Movies: Live (1987)
  100 Great Detectives (1991)
  The Profession of Science Fiction: Sf Writers On Their Craft and Ideas (1992)
  Jack the Ripper, Comprehensive A-Z (2005)
  Following the Detectives (2010)

• London Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/profile/maximjakubowski

  Maxim Jakubowski reviews crime fiction for the Guardian. An ex-publisher, he is also a writer and editor of crime and mystery and erotic fiction, and has published nearly 100 books. A regular broadcaster on TV and radio, he also contributes to the Times, the Bookseller and the Evening Standard and is the literary director of the Crime Scene Film and Book Festival, held annually in London. For many years now, he has edited anthologies of the best British mystery stories of the year and the world's best erotica, which have become bestsellers in the UK and America

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  Maxim Jakubowski (1944) is a crime, erotic, science fiction and rock music writer and critic.
  Jakubowski was born in 1944 in England to Russian-British and Polish parents, but raised in France.[1] Jakubowski has also lived in Italy and has travelled extensively. Jakubowski edited the science fiction anthologies Twenty Houses of the Zodiac (1979), for the 37th World Science Fiction Convention (Seacon '79) in Brighton, and Travelling Towards Epsilon, an anthology of French science fiction. He also contributed a short story to that anthology.
  He has worked in book publishing for many years, which he left to open the Murder One bookshop,[2] the UK's first specialist crime and mystery bookstore. He contributes to a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was for eight years the crime columnist for Time Out and, from 2000 to 2010, the crime reviewer for The Guardian. He is also the literary director of London's Crime Scene Festival and a consultant for the International Mystery Film Festival, Noir in Fest, held annually in Courmayeur, Italy. He is one of the leading editors in the crime and mystery and erotica field, in which he has published many major anthologies, including the annual Mammoth Books of Best New Erotica and Best British Crime. In addition, he has over 80 other anthologies to his credit, including titles on Vintage Crime, Pulp Fiction, Jack the Ripper, the Kama Sutra and countless areas of popular culture. He has edited several classic lists such as Black Box Thrillers for Zomba Books, Blue Murder for Simon & Schuster and (later) Xanadu, Eros Plus and Neon and the MaXcrime imprint for British publishers John Blake Publishing. He is a past winner of the Karel and the Anthony awards. He is also a translator from French and Italian.
  His novels include It's You that I Want to Kiss, Because She Thought She Loved Me, The State of Montana, On Tenderness Express, Kiss Me Sadly, Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer and I Was Waiting for You. His short story collections are Life in the World of Women, Fools for Lust and the collaborative American Casanova. He is a regular broadcaster on British TV and radio and was voted the fourth Sexiest Writer of 2007 on a poll on the Crimespace website.[3] Ekaterina and the Nightwas published in 2011 and combined crime with erotica, as does his latest novel 'The Louisiana Republic' (2018).
  He is strongly rumoured to be one of the authors behind the bestselling erotic author Vina Jackson, but this has never been confirmed.
  For many years, Jakubowski was Chair of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and is now chair and judge for the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger; he is also on the committee of the Crime Writers' Association and a frequent commentator on radio and TV. He is currently Honorary Vice Chair of the Crime Writers' Association.
  In October 2019, he was awarded the CWA Red Herring Award for lifetime achievement.
  In 2020, he will act as Executive Producer for the 'Factory' TV series, based on the novels of Derek Raymond, being produced by the FX Network (The Living Dead) and Hardy, Son and Baker (Taboo & A Chrsitmas Carol).

  He wrote the short story "Un Avocat pour Dolorès" under the nom de plume of "Adam Barnett-Foster". When asked why he took the name when he was already known and well-respected, he is quoted as shrugging and saying Le pseudonyme fou vient de frapper - "The mad pseudonym just hit me..."[4]
  Jakubowski also wrote a number of books on rock music during the 1980s.[5]
  His website is at www.maximjakubowski.co.uk, and lists his complete bibliography.

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  Select bibliography
  1.1
  As author
  1.2
  As editor
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  Anthologies of erotic fiction
  1.4
  Anthologies of erotic photography
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  References
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  External links
  Select bibliography[edit]
  As author[edit]
  with Edwards, Malcolm. The Complete Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy Lists. St Albans, Herts, UK: Granada Publishing Ltd., 1983. 350 pages. ISBN 0-586-05678-5.
  As editor[edit]
  Jakubowski, Maxim. Twenty Houses of the Zodiac. New English Library, 1979. 237 pages. ISBN 0450043339
  Jakubowski, Maxim. 100 Great Detectives. Carroll & Graf, 1991. 255 pages. ISBN 0881847291
  Won 1992 Anthony Award for Best Critical Work[6]
  Jakubowski, Maxim. London Noir. Serpent's Tail, 1994. 264 pages. ISBN 1852423080
  Nominated 1995 Anthony Award for Best Anthology / Short Story Collection[6]
  Jakubowski, Maxim. Past Poisons: An Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime. Ibooks, Inc. Anthology edition, 2005. 356 pages. ISBN 1-59687-160-1.
  Anthologies of erotic fiction[edit]
  The Mammoth Book of Erotica (Carroll & Graf US and Robinson UK, originally published in 1994, revised edition published in 2000) ISBN 0-7867-0787-9
  Anthologies of erotic photography[edit]
  The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica, co-edited with Marilyn Jaye Lewis, Running Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7867-0921-9
  The Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography, co-edited with Marilyn Jaye Lewis, Edition Olms, 2004, ISBN 3-283-00431-5

• From Publisher -

  Maxim Jakubowski is a highly regarded translator from French and Italian. An ex-publisher, and one-time owner of the Murder One bookstore, he is also a writer and editor of crime, mystery and erotic fiction, and has published nearly one hundred books. A regular broadcaster on TV and radio, Maxim Jukubowski reviews crime fiction for The Guardian. He also contributes to The Times, the Bookseller and the Evening Standard and is the literary director of the Crime Scene Film and Book Festival, held annually in London. For many years, he has edited anthologies of the best British mystery stories of the year and the world’s best erotica, which have become bestsellers in the UK and America.

  MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI is a British editor and writer. Following a long career in book publishing, during which he was responsible for several major crime imprints, he opened London’s mystery bookshop Murder One. He reviews crime fiction for the Guardian, runs London’s Crime Scene Festival, and is an advisor to Italy’s annual Courmayeur Noir in Festival. His latest crime novel is Ekaterina and the Night, and he edits the annual Best British Mysteries series. He is editor of Venice Noir and was coeditor, with Chiara Stangalino, of Rome Noir.

• Lucy V Hay - http://www.lucyvhayauthor.com/criminally-good-interview-with-maxim-jakubowski-author/

  CRIMINALLY GOOD: interview with Maxim Jakubowski, author
  On 10th May 2018 · By Lucy Hay · With 1 Comment
  1) So, who are you and what have you written?
  I’m Maxim Jakubowski. I was a book worm from an early age and owe my writing career to a teacher in his Paris school who, when I was 13, encouraged me to write stories rather than dry compositions and the bug has never left me since. I published my first book, a rather naive science fiction saga, at the age of 16 in French and in France and, on finally returning to the UK, became involved in science fiction fandom and writing. I became a close friend of Michael Moorcock, Brian Aldiss and J.G. Ballard, and collaborated to the glory years of the now legendary New Worlds Magazine.
  After some years in the food industry using my foreign languages, I finally moved into publishing and set up Virgin Books for Richard Branson, later moving to Penguin and the Thomson Group, and ended up as Editorial Director for Ebury Press. I later opened the Murder One bookshop, which for many years was the only specialist mystery bookstore in the UK.
  Throughout my publishing career, I never stopped writing and has written 20 novels, 5 collections of short stories and edited over 100 anthologies in a variety of genres ranging from SF to crime, with an intermezzo in erotica! I also translate the occasional book from French.
  I have edited several leading crime imprints and was also the co-director of the Shots in the Dark film and literary festival on London’s South Bank.
  I’m presently the joint Vice Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and chairs the CWA John Creasey Fresh Blood Dagger.
  My favourite books, as myself, are ‘Life in the World of Women’, ‘Skin in Darkness’, ‘The State of Montana’, ‘I Was Waiting for You’, ‘Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer’ and ‘Ekaterina and the Night’.
  I can be found on Facebook but not on Twitter as there are not enough hours in the day.
  2) Why do you write crime fiction?
  I don’t write traditional crime books, to the extent there have seldom been any actual police officers in my books and stories. I’m fascinated by human psychology and interaction, sexuality and the way we humans live so many inner contradictions. This leads to so many stories, with, I hope, characters who are are flesh and blood (and have a sex life) and not just ciphers.
  3) What informs your crime writing?
  I’m not an ideas person per se, and more of a ‘what if’ sort of author, taking situations I encounter in real life or in my imagination and taking them as far as they can in a bid to understand the humanity (or inhumanity) of my characters.
  This means, as mentioned before, that there are no cops, nothing is based on real life events, and owes more to the sometimes dark twists of my imagination. As a result my books are ‘Marmite’ ones, which people usually love or hate, and characters likewise.
  4) What’s your usual writing routine?
  When I am writing a novel, or a short story, I am terribly disciplined, after sometimes whole months of procrastination. I normally rise at 7 am and write until 11 or until I have around 2000 to 2500 words; the rest of the day is leisure, reading, watching movies, living. I always write to the sound of rock music (I worked in the Virgin empire, used to write for New Musical Express’ and am devoted to music, even though I cannot play a single instrument. I travel a lot because of family circumstances and try and adhere to this routine whether by a beach, a pool or on a cruise.
  5) Which crime book do you wish YOU’D written, and why?
  I will cheat. There are two books I am deeply jealous of (with uncanny resemblances, although neither author was ever aware of the other) and I was even the publisher of the first in the UK. Respectively Marc Behm’s ‘Eye of the Beholder’ and Emily St John Mandel’s ‘Last Night in Montreal’. They both made me cry, hold my breath and metaphorically weep with sheer admiration. About people who are lost to their faults, about fleeing your fate or other people, about ghosts of the past, about love attained and jettisoned. In short all the things I always seem to write about myself, even when I try and achieve something different. And even they are not strictly canonical to the genre, they are definitely crime thrillers by a nautical mile.

Venice Noir. Ed. by Maxim Jakubowski. June 2012. 288p. Akashic, paper, $15.95 (9781617750731).
Akashic Books continues its popular, geographically themed Noir series, this time focusing on Venice. The real wonder is that it's taken this long for the publisher to get around to Venice, home to some of the most acclaimed crime series going. With a slowly sinking infrastructure and a historical identity based on the theft of the remains of St. Mark from Alexandria, Venice makes a perfect setting for noir tales. Editor Jakubowski does an excellent job of selecting a variety of stories that represent all strata of Venetian life, from tourists visiting for Carnevale to criminals running illegal operations in the bay; there are even two stories told from the perspective of Venice's largest indigenous population: rats. A must-read for lovers of Venice, especially Donna Leon fans. Although longtime Venice resident Leon is not included here--in fact, nearly all of the authors are little known to American readers--the presence of new and intriguing voices, many of them Italian, will pique the interest of international-mystery readers.--Jessica Moyer
Moyer, Jessica
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Moyer, Jessica. "Venice Noir." Booklist, 1 May 2012, p. 43+. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A290065839/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=bc299478. Accessed 6 Dec. 2019.
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Jakubowski, Maxim VENICE NOIR Akashic (Adult Fiction) $15.95 6, 1 ISBN: 978-1-61775-073-1
Sex, food and real estate inspire 14 hot-blooded new takes on crime in the magical city of Venice. Of the three, real estate is the most divisive. Most Venetians can no longer afford to live in their own city. Like the heroine of Barbara Baraldi's "Commissario Clelia Vinci," they flock to mainland towns like Mestre, where they struggle with the mundane: How to balance work and family? How to share custody with a faithless ex? They contend with dampness and bad plumbing, like the old woman in Michelle Lovric's "Pantegana." Or they live in tiny houses near the old ghetto, filled with the odor of other people's cooking, like the heroine of Francesca Mazzucato's "Little Sister," who finds it harder and harder to leave her cramped home. It's the tourists who enjoy the beauty of the canals and the palazzos. In "Venice Aphrodisiac," Peter James shows how one illicit rendezvous can become a lifelong obsession with the city. Sexual energy spirals out of control in Isabella Santacroce's "Desdemona Undicesima." And a tourist finds Venice the endpoint of his romantic dreams in editor Jakubowski's "Lido Winter." Venetians have their own take on the visitors who flock to their city, like Signora Adele, who finds her own special solution in Maria Tronca's "Tourists for Supper." But Adele isn't the only Venetian with a hearty appetite, as a policeman learns in Michael Gregorio's "Laguna Blues." Rather than crimes of passion, this collection focuses on the passion of crime, painting its noir in robust tones rather than gritty gray.
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"Jakubowski, Maxim: VENICE NOIR." Kirkus Reviews, 15 June 2012. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A292825469/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=249700ba. Accessed 6 Dec. 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A292825469

Monsieur: An Erotic Novel
Emma Becker, trans, from the French by Maxim Jakubowski. Arcade, $24.95 (256p)
ISBN 978-1-61145-761-2
A sexting young woman for the Facebook age tells her salacious side of the story in Becker's exquisite and explicit debut--a semiautobiographical exploration of sexual desire, erotic compulsion, and a dead-end May-December romance. Even 20-year-old Parisian student Ellie, with her lusty-literary ambitions--her hero is the late Mechanics of Women writer Louis Calaferte, and she has published erotic stories in magazines--and insatiable taste for down-and-dirty sexual risk-taking can see the futility of l'affaire with a family friend, Monsieur, a skirt-chasing, married plastic surgeon with five sons. He is a "forty-six years old baby who lives to play at scaring himself and terrifying me," Ellie complains, but she's ga-ga "every time I gaze into those eyes," a transparent act of self-love Ellie bestows on the equally sex-obsessed surgeon. There is a heartbreaking honesty about the saucy student who dissects Nabokov's Lolita and embraces the attraction of sexually adventurous young women and accommodating older men--boasting the "list of those who could worship me the way I wanted was in fact longer than Father Christmas' wish list." In the end, however, it's Ellie who longs for the furtive hookups even as her "mister" drifts away, having given Ellie enough material for a novel and relieved to be back in demand at home and the office. Both lovers score, in a way, but neither seem any happier for the win. Though some of Becker's sexual details may shock readers unfamiliar with Henry Miller, Ellie's poignant openness gives the novel depth. (Nov.)

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"Monsieur: An Erotic Novel." Publishers Weekly, 10 Sept. 2012, p. 31+. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A302899616/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=9ef84a9a. Accessed 6 Dec. 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A302899616

Block 46
Johana Gustawsson, trans. from the French by Maxim Jakubowski. Orenda (IPG, dist.), $12.95 trade paper (300p) ISBN 978-1910633-70-0
French author Gustawsson's overly ambitious first novel, a series launch, is not for the fainthearted. In 2014, ice-in-the-veins Canadian profiler Emily Roy and anxiety-ridden French true crime author Alexis Castells investigate the murder of London-based jewelry designer Linnea Blix, whose mutilated body was discovered beneath a small upside-down boat in a snow-covered marina in Falkenberg, Sweden. In London, a boy's body is found with similar wounds on Hampstead Heath. Flashbacks to 1944 describe in grisly detail the experiences of Erich Ebner, a German university student who's been sent to Buchenwald, where his job is to transport the dead to the crematorium. Overwrought glimpses into a psychotic serial killer's mind add to the horror. Are the present-day murders connected, and what's their link to Erich's ordeal? Past and present converge in an unconvincing denouement as Gustawsson tries too hard to convince readers how closely evil can underlie the veneer of civilization. (Oct.)
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"Block 46." Publishers Weekly, 7 Aug. 2017, p. 55. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A500340347/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=ed00c27d. Accessed 6 Dec. 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A500340347

The New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction. Running Pr. Apr. 2014. 512p. ed. by Maxim Jakubowski. ISBN 9780762452217. pap. $13.95; ebk. ISBN 9781472111807. MYS
The Golden Age of pulp mysteries spanned the 1920s to the 1940s and conjures up visions of Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, and other wisecracking hard-boiled private eyes. This collection of 33 stories covers publications from 1929 through 1989, with only a handful written during the pulp fiction heyday. Few of the authors are those who defined the genre, and the stories lack the fast, terse language of the original pulps. However, most of these action-packed and well-written stories are by some of mystery's best writers, including Bill Pronzini, Donald Westlake, and Lawrence Block. There are honest cops and crooked ones, bank robbers, double-crossing dames, murderers, and even one vampire. Many have not been previously collected in mystery anthologies.
Verdict One troubling feature here is that there seems to be no rationale for the order of the pieces, and a "nice to have" would have been short author biographies, since many of the writers, such as Dashiell Hammett, had unusual backgrounds. Clearly the bibles of older pulp mysteries are Otto Penzler's The Black Lizard Big Book of the Pulps and The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories. However, this anthology may attract pulp fiction fans interested in more contemporary interpretations.--Edward Goldberg, Syosset P.L., NY
Goldberg, Edward
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Goldberg, Edward. "The New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction." Xpress Reviews, 25 Apr. 2014. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A368381346/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=4f0f5651. Accessed 6 Dec. 2019.
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Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) Moyer, Jessica. "Venice Noir." Booklist, 1 May 2012, p. 43+. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A290065839/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=bc299478. Accessed 6 Dec. 2019. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) "Jakubowski, Maxim: VENICE NOIR." Kirkus Reviews, 15 June 2012. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A292825469/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=249700ba. Accessed 6 Dec. 2019. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) "Monsieur: An Erotic Novel." Publishers Weekly, 10 Sept. 2012, p. 31+. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A302899616/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=9ef84a9a. Accessed 6 Dec. 2019. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) "Block 46." Publishers Weekly, 7 Aug. 2017, p. 55. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A500340347/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=ed00c27d. Accessed 6 Dec. 2019. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) Goldberg, Edward. "The New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction." Xpress Reviews, 25 Apr. 2014. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A368381346/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=4f0f5651. Accessed 6 Dec. 2019.

• Publishers Weekly
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  Word count: 286

  KISS ME SADLY

  Maxim Jukubowski, Author, Maxim Jakubowski, Author . Dufour/The Do-Not Press $29.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-899344-88-8 ISBN 978-1-899344-87-1

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  Likened to Henry Miller and heralded abroad as "king of the erotic thriller," the author of this unblushingly pornographic novel published earlier this year in the U.K. is previously credited with such quixotic titles as The State of Montana and The Erotic Novels Boxed Set. From the opening lines of his latest ("She said pussy. I said cunt"), the author purposefully sets out to arouse and exploit the prurient proclivities of voyeuristic readers. Unfolding as a series of (generally) alternating parallel narratives, the novel chronicles the psychosocial evolution of two sexually obsessed main characters, both addicted to vicarious phone and cybersex. Jack, a rather sophisticated London bookseller and writer, is contrasted with Milduta, a comparatively innocent young Estonian woman raised from early childhood by her grandparents. Emotionally scarred since his student days after discovering that a French girl he is tutoring has betrayed him by having sex with a rival classmate, Jack is doomed to a repetitive pattern of possessive relationships with a series of female partners only to be ultimately rejected. Milduta develops a talent for fellatio, which she performs on a rather undistinguished ménage of men she meets in bars. Inevitably, she is deflowered before she encounters Jack via the Web and the unraveling of their Freudian threads is set in motion. Although the steamy New York City tryst promised at the start is strangely missing, this blatantly prurient, edgy, perverse morality play will hold even the most jaded reader to the shocking end. (Nov.)

• THeNerdyGirlExpress
  https://thenerdygirlexpress.com/2019/11/21/the-book-of-extraordinary-amateur-sleuth-and-private-eye-stories-book-review-from-kleffnotes/
  Word count: 424

  KATHERINE KLEFFNER

  The Book of Extraordinary Amateur Sleuth and Private Eye Stories is a masterful collection of new stories from this beloved genre. For lovers of characters like Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, and Philip Marlowe this collection will bring you new mysteries that you can curl up with. You will be on the edge of your seat as murders and mysteries unfold.
  As a mystery lover I immediately wanted to check out this book once I saw the title. I love mysteries so much I even spent two years studying British detectives and both fictional and factual Victorian London. This collection has something for everyone with tales of stolen artifacts, serial murders, and deadly and dangerous events. Each of the authors has taken care to create stories that will keep you wondering and like any good mystery you will find yourself puzzling over just what the solution might be. These mysteries focus on the investigators that often slip under the radar or whose knowledge seems to rival even the most well trained of police detectives. Let yourself be wowed by the marvelous minds in these stories.
  “The Mystery of the Missing Vermeer” fits right within my comfort zone for mystery reading with a London theme and mentions of Scotland Yard. James Henry Murgatroyd feels like Sherlock Holmes in his appearance, but his skills tie more into spatial knowledge. As the story evolves you will be struck by the elements of a locked room mystery focused on a missing painting. In a twist, “Dodie Golightly and the Ghost of Cock Lane” involves a ghost mystery, but also a ghostly assistant. Our lead character communicates with a ghost named Cassandra who assists her in her work, even though no one else can see her. The story moves between the two characters points of view, which allows the reader to learn more about what has happened in the past surrounding the mysterious appearance of a ghostly being. I found this one both dark in terms of some story elements, but this was balanced by the bright personalities of Dodie and Cassandra. “Around the World in Five Serial Murders” follows a criminal profiler as she examines murders that fit a profile, but bounce around to various tourist attractions in various countries. The scenes were are so eerie to envision and the ending was shocking. If you are looking for a good mystery The Book of Extraordinary Amateur Sleuths and Private Eye Stories is full of them. You can get your copy today!

• Liz Loves Books
  http://lizlovesbooks.com/lizlovesbooks/the-louisiana-republic-maxim-jakubowski-blog-tour-review/
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  New York, and the world, have been transformed by an unexplained global catastrophe now known as ‘the Dark. Once a modest researcher, has now become an involuntary detective. He is recruited by her elder sister to find the missing daughter of a local gangster in a city in chaos where anarchy and violence are just a step away. He soon discovers the case is anything but straightforward and compellingly close to home. Compromising photographs and the ambiguous assistance of a young woman with ties to the criminal gangs lead him to New Orleans, which has seceded from the rest of America in the wake of the Dark. A perilous journey down the Mississippi river, murderous hit women and sidekicks, and the magic and dangerous glamour of the French Quarter become a perilous road to nowhere and to madness in his quest for the amoral daughter, his own lost love and his sanity. Will he find the missing women or lose himself?
  The Louisiana Republic is a darkly engaging read with a speculative world building that is genuinely compelling. A very different read to anything I’ve had recently which always appeals.
  I want to call it speculative noir – the heart of the plot is very old school but with a modern twist – the further you get into The Louisiana Republic the more insane it gets, Our main protagonist, on the hunt for the missing Cherise, which ties into his search for his own girlfriend missing since “The Dark” occurred, gets entangled with Vienna, an enigmatic character and together they go on a danger fueled “road trip” towards New Orleans and answers…
  This is not the first novel I have read where the author plays with the idea of what would happen in a world without internet and technology – but this author puts an interesting mythical twist on proceedings and the storytelling becomes surreal and more than a little creepy as you move further down the trail. The descriptive sense of it is beautifully done, with strong erotic undertones and a strangely hypnotic prose.
  I have to say I loved the idea of a world were libraries were fiercely guarded, as the only real source of information and a world where print media once more is king. The Louisiana Republic of the title is a strange and somewhat arcane setting, the characters are divisively unexpected and overall this is a compelling if often very disquieting read.
  If you want something a little different, a little crazy, then The Louisiana Republic is a book for you.

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