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Blood Standard is Laird Barron’s first official
foray into the hardboiled crime fiction genre. I first encountered the author’s
works several years ago, when I picked up an e-book copy of his Imago Sequence and Other Stories. Soon
after, I polished off a longer work, The
Croning, followed up by some of his novellas. Up to this point in his
career, Barron’s preferred medium of expression has been within the confines of
the…
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