Killers

This was my first read from the author Howie Carr, just found this to be way too slow for what it's about, even reads slow and just hate that the 1st person telling of the story switches by the character. Should have started with a prologue, that tells the story of Sally Curto's nephew getting shot......more

This was just ok for me. Set in Boston’s world of hard crime, it is told from two perspectives: an Irish gang lord and a retired policeman turned PI who works for shady politicians. Told in alternating chapters, I had a hard time keeping straight whose perspective it was as their voices weren’t real......more

A very involving, fast-paced story of Boston organized crime post-Bulger, Howie Carr's "Killers" shouldn't have trouble finding an audience already familiar with the works of Dennis Lehane and Chuck Hogan. The book is split into about forty-five short-ish chapters, switching back and forth between tw......more

A very enjoyable book by a extremely talented author. Howie Carr can be found commenting weekly on the radio on political and social media events. He is witty and always engaging. Well, the same can be said for this volume in which he creates a fictional environment involving a host of criminal char......more

Decades ago, Peter Maas distinguished himself as a non fiction writer specializing in organized crime who successfully crossed over into fiction with some memorable novels in the Mafia genre. With “Killers,” Howie Carr proves that he too is capable of cranking out a similarly mixed body of work, and......more