Guy Savage
Guy Savage: “The internet is a world without borders, and as such it offers readers the perfect opportunity to expand reading horizons. Both the methods we use to select books and the manner in which we can connect with fellow readers have radically changed. In many ways, thanks to corporate culture, the choices in our lives have become homogenized–but the internet allows the opposite approach and allows access to highly specialized markets and tastes. Readers can only benefit from the expanded horizons the internet offers.” Guy Savage is also an occasional contributor to www.noiroftheweek.blogspot.com
Guy also blogs on the site  Phoenix Cinema for those interested in foreign film, film noir, and also films based on books  and His Futile Preoccupations, a blog on great books, especially the classics.
Guy has reviewed the following for MostlyFiction.com:
2011 (Top Picks)
- Hell and Gone by Duane Swierczynski (10-31-11)
- The Consummata by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins (10-9-11)
- Choke Hold by Christa Faust (10-9-11)
- Trick of the Dark by Val McDermid (9-24-11)
- Wyatt by Garry Disher (9-16-11)
- Plugged by Eoin Colfer (9-9-11)
- A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black (8-25-11)
- Machine Man by Max Barry (8-19-11) Author Interview!
- Ladies’ Man by Richard Price (8-11-11)
- Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson (8-4-11)
- The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith (7-20-11)
- Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman (7-15-11)
- The End of Everything by Megan Abbott (7-7-11)
- Fun and Games by Duane Swierczynski (6-20-11)
- The Stronger Sex by Hans Werner Kettenbach (6-17-11)
- Stagestruck by Peter Lovesey (6-15-11)
- The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey (5-21-11)
- Bullfighting: Stories by Roddy Doyle (5-15-11)
- Funeral for a Dog by Thomas Pletzinger (5-4-11)
- The Bayou Trilogy by Daniel Woodrell (4-28-11)
- Devil Red by Joe R. Lansdale (4-24-11)
- A Shortcut to Paradise by Teresa Solana (4-4-11)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexander McCall Smith (4-1-11)
- Started Early Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson (3-21-11)
- The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe (3-11-11)
- The Old Romantic by Louise Dean (3-5-11)
- Bad Penny Blues by Cathi Unsworth (2-19-11)
- The Way Home by George Pelecanos (1-22-11)
- The Best American Noir of the Century edited by Otto Penzler and James Ellroy (1-16-11)
- The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly (1-10-11)
- In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (1-1-11)
2010 (Top Picks)
- Sugar Mother by Elizabeth Jolley (12-27-10)
- The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories edited by Otto Penzler (12-17-10)
- Foxbaby by Elizabeth Jolley (12-5-10)
- Noir by Robert Coover (11-28-10)
- Heliopolis by James Scudamore (11-12-10)
- Hygiene and Assassin by Amélie Nothomb (11-11-10)
- Portobello by Ruth Rendell (11-04-10)
- Bound by Antonya Nelson (10-25-10)
- Chalcot Crescent by Fay Weldon (10-15-10)
- Concrete by Thomas Bernhard (10-12-10)
- The Alternative Hero by Tim Thornton (09-30-10)
- Bandit Love by Massimo Carlotto (09-29-10)
- Nashville Chrome by Rick Bass (09-16-10)
- A Stranger Like You by Elizabeth Brundage (09-12-10)
- A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé (08-31-10)
- The Past is a Foreign Country by Gianrico Carofiglio (08-14-10)
- Dancing Backwards by Salley Vickers (08-05-10)
- The Homecoming Party by Carmine Abate (07-27-10)
- The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle (07-25-10)
- Still Midnight by Denise Mina (07-05-10)
- A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth (06-18-10) –> INTERVIEW
- The Lie by Petra Hammesfahr (06-11-10)
- Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard (05-20-10)
- Zulu by Caryl Férey (05-10-10)
- Love and Obstacles: Stories by Aleksandar Hemon (05-6-10)
- Ox-Tales: Air, Water, Earth & Fire edited by Mark Ellingham and Peter Florence (04-28-10)
- Unforgivable by Philippe Djian (04-24-10)
- The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher (04-10-10) –> INTERVIEW
- Memory by Donald E. Westlake (03-29-10)
- Mexico City Noir edited by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (03-11-10)
- See How Much I Love You by Luis Leante (03-03-10)
- Dying Gasp by Leighton Gage (2-13-10)
- Doors Open by Ian Rankin (01-30-10)
- Evening’s Empire by Bill Flanagan (01-17-10)
- The Semantics of Murder by Aifric Campbell (01-07-10) –> INTERVIEW
2009 (Top Picks)
- Invisible by Paul Auster (12-26-09)
- The Man with the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam (12-15-09)
- Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet (12-3-09) INTERVIEW
- Honey in His Mouth by Lester Dent (11-07-09)
- Many and Many a Year Ago by Selcuk Altun (11-04-09)
- Poisonville by Massimo Carlotto and Marco Videtta (10-17-09)
- Exit Music by Ian Rankin (10-5-09)
- A River Called Time by Mia Couto (9-26-09)
- Love and Summer by William Trevor (9-12-09)
- Fifty Grand by Adrian McKinty (8-18-09) INTERVIEW
- Dead I Well May Be by Adrian McKinty (8-18-09)
- Vanilla Ride by Joe R. Lansdale (7-23-09) INTERVIEW
- Get Real by Donald E. Westlake (7-18-09)
- Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott (7-8-09)
- Krapp’s Last Cassette by Anne Argula (6-29-09)
- Murder in the Rue de Paradis by Cara Black (5-15-09)
- Loser’s Town by Daniel Depp (5-2-09)
- A Date You Can’t Refuse by Harley Jane Kozak (4-26-09) INTERVIEW
- Singer by Ira Sher (4-15-09)
- Lethal Legacy by Linda Fairstein (4-14-09) INTERVIEW
- Mucho Mojo by Joe R. Lansdale (4-2-09)
- Matala by Craig Holden (3-22-09) INTERVIEW
- A Man of No Moon by Jenny McPhee (3-14-09)
- The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow (3-9-09)
- Havana Lunar by Robert Arellano (3-7-09)
- San Francsico Noir 2: The Classics edited by Peter Maravelis (3-7-09)
- The Isle of Dogs by Daniel Davies (2-25-09)
- Awesome by Jack Pendarvis(2-25-09)
- Terminal by Andrew Vachss (2-14-09)
- The Renegades by T. Jefferson Parker (2-11-09) INTERVIEW
- L.A. Outlaws by T. Jefferson Parker (2-11-09)
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (2-7-09)
- Buried Strangers by Leighton Gage (1-31-09) INTERVIEW
- Young Che by Ernesto Guevara Lynch (1-17-09)
- Occupational Hazards by Jonathan Segura (1-11-09) INTERVIEW
- Somebody Owes Me Money by Donald E. Westlake (1-3-09)
- Mosquito by Roma Tearne (1-2-09)
2008
- A Little Stranger by Kate Pullinger(12-27-08)
- By Chance by Martin Corrick (12-25-08)
- Castorp by Pawel Huelle (12-19-08)
- Leather Maiden by Joe R. Lansdale (12-12-08)
- Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye by John O’Dowd (12-3-08)
- The Long Embrace by Judith Freeman (12-3-08)
- Fifty-to-One by Charles Ardai (11-16-08) INTERVIEW
- The First Quarry by Max Alan Collins (11-06-08)
- The Pools by Bethan Roberts (10-18-08)
- Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney (9-16-08)
- Somebody Else’s Daughter by Elizabeth Brundage (9-6-08) INTERVIEW!
- The Doctor’s Wife by Elizabeth Brundage (9-6-08)
- A Sun for the Dying by Jean-Claude Izzo (8-25-08)
- Eros by Helmut Krausser (8-26-08)
- Swansea Terminal by Robert Lewis (8-15-08) INTERVIEW!
- The Last Llanelli Train by Robert Lewis (8-15-08)
- The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa (8-9-08)
- The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor (7-31-08) INTERVIEW!
- No One Tells Everything by Rae Meadows (7-22-08) INTERVIEW!
- The Fourth Watcher by Tim Hallinan (7-19-08) INTERVIEW!
- Via Delle Oche by Carlo Lucarelli (7-12-08)
- Chez Moi by Agnes Desarthe (7-6-08)
- The Narcissist’s Daughter by Craig Holden (6-29-08)
- Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (6-22-08)
- The Mistress’s Daughter by A.M. Homes (6-20-08)
- A Romanov Fantasy by Frances Welch (6-20-08)
- Zero Cool by John Lange (6-14-08)
- Dirty Money by Richard Stark (6-5-08)
- Judas Horse by April Smith (5-31-08)
- Strawberry Fields by Marina Lewycka (5-25-08) INTERVIEW!
- The Treatment & The Cure by Peter Kocan (5-12-08)
- Secret Daughter by June Cross (4-30-08)
- Tooth and Claw by T. C. Boyle (4-20-08)
- The Damned Season by Carlo Lucarelli (4-11-08)
- California Fire and Life by Don Winslow (3-16-08)
- The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow (3-16-08)
- Civil and Strange by Claire Ni Aonghusa (3-9-08)
- Pinkerton’s Secret by Eric Lerner (3-2-08) INTERVIEW!
- Dead Ex by Harley Jane Kozak (2-29-08)
- Forgive Me by Amanda Eyre Ward (2-15-08) INTERVIEW!
- Trutor and the Balloonist by Debbie Lee r (2-8-08)
- Making a Killing by Bob Torres (2-7-08)
- The Lost Sailors by Jean-Claude Izzo (1-31-08)
- Das Kapital by Viken Berberian (1-23-08)
- If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work by Irvine Welsh (1-15-08)
2007
- Star Struck by Val McDermid (12-30-07)
- Hostage to Murder by Val McDermid (12-30-07)
- Walla Walla Suite (A Room With No View) by Anne Argula (12-28-07)
- Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields (12-22-07)
- Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin (12-22-07)
- Signed, Mata Hari by Yannick Murphy (12-16-07) INTERVIEW!
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell (12-2-07)
- Waging Peace by Scott Ritter (11-25-07)
- Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff (11-11-07) INTERVIEW!
- The Uncomfortable Dead by Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Subcomandante Marcos (11-5-07)
- Zeroville by Steve Erickson (11-1-07) INTERVIEW!
- The Fugitive by Massimo Carlotto (10-23-07)
- Hick by Andrea Portes (10-6-07)
- Hooked by Matt Richtel (9-28-07) INTERVIEW!
- Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards (9-23-07)
- The Worst Intentions by Alessandro Piperno (8-20-07)
- Talk Talk by T.C. Boyle (8-5-07)
- The City is a Rising Tide by Rebecca Lee (7-30-07)
- Tango for a Torturer by Daniel Chavarria (07-12-07)
- The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin (7-5-07)
- Menagarie Manor by Gerald Durrell (06-24-07)
- The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell (06-24-07)
- Queenpin by Megan Abbott (6-17-07)
- The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins (06-10-07)
- Consequences by Penelope Lively (6-3-07)
- Making It Up by Penelope Lively (6-3-07)
- Misdemeanor Man by Dylan Schaffer (5-26-07)
- The River Queen by Mary Morris (05-10-07)
- Quite Honestly by John Mortimer (04-19-07)
- The Song Is You by Megan Abbott (04-15-07)
- Flight by Ginger Strand (4-7-07)
- Con Ed by Matthew Klein (03-24-07)
- I’m Not Julia Roberts by Laura Ruby (02-20-07)
- Deceit by James Siegel (2-18-07)
- The Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun (02-07-07)
- The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood (02-01-07)
- My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman (01-22-07)
- Terrorist by John Updike (01-10-07)
- Death’s Dark Abyss by Massimo Carlotto (01-06-07)
- The Goodbye Kiss by Massimo Carlotto (01-06-07)
2006
- Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie (12-31-06)
- Glad News of the Natural World by T. R. Pearson (11-16-06)
- Love Burns by Edna Mazya (11-16-06)
- Paint It Black by Janet Fitch (11-16-06)
- 13 Steps Down by Ruth Rendell (9-30-06)
- This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes (9-30-06)
- Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst (9-30-06)
- Ludmila’s Broken English by DBC Pierre
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka (8-26-06)
- Boot Tracks by Matthew F. Jones (8-26-06)
- Author, Author by David Lodge (8-26-06)
- A Bit on the Side by William Trevor (8-26-06)