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Review: Letting it burn

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By Carolyn Kellogg Verified
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Verified
Books move fast on mystery and thriller shelves, and many novelists will publish a book a year to keep up with demand. S.A. Cosby writes almost that fast, but luckily, his brilliant “King of Ashes,” which came out in 2025, has been recently released in paperback. In it, three siblings are brought together after their father is injured in a car accident, resulting in a coma. So, Roman comes home, Neveah keeps the family crematory going, and Dante, well, he hangs around partying.
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S.A. Cosby is the king of Southern noir — and he's coming to town

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By Carolyn Kellogg Verified
| Yahoo Entertainment Verified
When the king of Southern noir, S.A. Cosby, sent out his debut novel, “My Darkest Prayer,” it was rejected again and again. “One of the editors said, ‘I just don't believe this level of violence and intensity exists in rural areas,’” Cosby tells me with a laugh. “I was like, I grew up here. If you live in a rural area and it's a Friday, Saturday night, there's not a lot to do but drink and fight and ride around.” He admits he’s exaggerating to some extent. “But Raymond Chandler is exaggerating.
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The 15 Best Books of 2025

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By Carolyn Kellogg Verified, Bethanne Patrick
| Yahoo Entertainment Verified
From left, "Flesh" by David Szalay, "Audition" by Katie Kitamura, "Shadow Ticket" by Thomas Pynchon (Photo illustration by Josep Prat Sorolla / For The Times; book jackets from Scribner, Riverhead and Penguin Press) Books can be a refuge from (waves arms) all this, even when they take you deeper into the darkness of 2025. There is a grace in the relationship between book and reader, with nothing but your eyes and brain and the words on the page.
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