NEWS
Team Gritty is Cookin’….
Not too late for summer road trips where campfire cookery is king, so we present two of Team Gritty’s favorite recipes—Team Gritty Dutch Oven Chicken followed with a heapin’ helpin’ of Team Gritty’s Lip Smackin’ Apple Sauce! We hear you saying, “That’s great, Team...
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OUT OF THE FOG
“What a morning,” Flench grumbled. “Can’t tell a cat from a dog, the fog is that thick.” No one was yet on the street. With each pulling step, the thick ooze of the narrow lane wormed between his toes through the holes in his wraps. Surely, no one would begrudge a beggar respite from the mud at so early an hour. He angled toward the higher cobbled walk under the eaves of the street’s shops….
BOOK REVIEWS
WRONG TOWN left me stunned and has to be ranked in my own personal top 10 of Westerns that I have read…. The opening chapter has Roamer fighting for his life against a grizzly bear—the read has an authentic feel to it as though the writer had lived through such an ordeal…. This book reads like a movie and is gripping from start to finish.
Let me admit, this type of tale is not usually my favorite. I can’t really tell you why, except that I wasn’t the kid who was into the mystery comics and such when I was young. And this one reads as if it would fit perfectly in an old DC House of Mystery or an EC comic. That, however, is the reason that I liked it as much as I did–because as I read it, I could see the artwork, I could see the creepy green and black coloring. The set up, the premise, and the characters smack heavily and enjoyably of that 1950s and 60s weird tale comic story, even though it’s in prose.
If you haven’t read a Matthew P. Mayo novel yet, then you’re missing out. This novel is pure Mayo: Well-written, gritty, and peppered with enough fierce and spunky characters to populate two novels. Really, what are you waiting for? Mouse up to the buy button and do it now… And keep an eye out for this one, I promise you’re going to hear great things about his Westerns.