By Adam Sternbergh RAZORBLADE TEARS By S.A. Cosby It’s hard to make a name for yourself in crime fiction but once you have, everyone knows it — for starters, your name appears on the covers of ...

The body count in “Razorblade Tears” is higher than anything in Leonard I can remember and only a little less than Gettysburg’s. (If you prefer novels in which the violence occurs offstage ...

Fowkes, from Northampton, is accused of inflicting a seven-inch wound on Huntley's neck using a blade fashioned from a toothbrush and razor blade when they were in the prison kitchens. School ...

Cosby wisely tweaks the formula, mixing in biting humor and frank confrontations about race and sexuality amid the mayhem — and making “Razorblade Tears” a more emotionally raw affair than ...

Ike Randolph and Buddy Lee Jenkins, the protagonists of S.A. Cosby’s “Razorblade Tears” (Flatiron, 319 pages, $26.99), are both ex-convicts living in Virginia but otherwise seem to have ...