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    Stacking the deck

    Jul 10, 2022 4 minutes
    by GREG FLEMING

    THE SLOW ROLL, by Simon Lendrum (Upstart, $39.99)

    While many of us were perfecting our sourdough recipes or bingeing Tiger King over the 2020 lockdown, longtime ad man Simon Lendrum was fulfilling a long-held ambition inspired by years of reading Robert Crais, Walter Mosley, James Lee Burke and others: writing a crime novel. “I had the title and the name of the central character in my head for about five years and I had tried to write the first page multiple times over that period, to little success.”

    And then lockdown happened. “Lockdown was a perfect coming together of events. I thought, if this isn’t the time to give it a crack there never will

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