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Sam Reaves

Sam Reaves has written seven Chicago-based crime novels, including the Cooper MacLeish series, the Dooley series and the stand-alone Mean Town Blues. As Dominic Martell he has penned a European-based suspense trilogy. Reaves has traveled widely in Europe and the Middle East but has lived in the Chicago area most of his life. He has worked as a teacher and a translator.

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April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 Sam ReavesUncategorized

SAM REAVES: COLD BLACK EARTH GREW FROM A SINGLE VIVID IMAGE | Land Of Books “– Who are you?– I’m a small-town kid who has lived all of his adult life in Chicago, when not living abroad.” ———— SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL: […]

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April 26, 2018 Sam ReavesUncategorized

New book by Sam Reaves 2018.

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Mean Town Blues

May 31, 2015May 31, 2015 Sam ReavesUncategorized

Mean Town Blues   A veteran of the war in Iraq and a refugee from a sad Kentucky family history, Tommy McLain places his faith in a beat-up blue Chevy and the city of Chicago, where the jobs are. What […]

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Bury It Deep

May 31, 2015 Sam ReavesUncategorized
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Favorite Writers

August 29, 2014August 29, 2014 Sam ReavesFavorites

Favorite Writers I have lots of favorite writers. Here I’ll concentrate on some who might be less well known: Eric Ambler He invented the modern spy novel, moving away from melodrama and into the world of jealously guarded industrial processes, […]

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Favorite Books

August 29, 2014August 29, 2014 Sam ReavesFavorites

I have lots of favorite books, in the crime genre and elsewhere. Here are a few of them, in no particular order, and with no particular claim to greatness. I just liked them and think you might. Some of these […]

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Homicide 69

November 30, 2013August 29, 2014 Sam ReavesNews

The Summer of 1969: Apollo 11, Woodstock. Vietnam, Chappaquiddick, the Manson murders. Brian Jones drowned and Joe Namath quit. The Cubs were riding high and the Mets were playing over their heads. And a Chicago homicide dick was working the […]

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Who is Dominic Martell?

Dominic is Sam’s alter ego, the pen name under which he writes a series of geopolitical thrillers featuring Pascual Rose, a repentant ex-terrorist trying to go straight. Check out Dominic Martell’s website here.

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