Mysteries
Everyone Should Be Reading
Just a few authors who deserve your
attention.
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Fellow first-time author Steve Hamilton's "A Cold Day In Paradise" is out and I just finished reading it -- in one sitting. It's awesome. Now I know why the critics are going gaga over it. Be the first in your reading circle to fall for Detroit ex-cop Alex McKnight and say you saw it first right here. This book won the 1999 Edgar for Best First Novel and was nominated for a Shamus alongside "Zen." |
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James W. Hall created Florida's reluctant detective Thorn, whose heart is as big as the fish he would rather be out trolling for. Next month, he unveils a new character, Miami forensic photographer, Alexandra Rafferty, in "Body Language." A writing teacher and a poet, Hall has redefined the genre with prose to die for. |
| Stephen Rhodes writes about the financial world like the Wall Street insider he is. Fast-paced, fun and thrilling, "The Velocity of Money" is one of those books about international bankers that is actually a kick to read. |
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If you haven't met Elvis Cole yet, get off your La-Z-Boy and rush out to the bookstore RIGHT NOW! Robert Crais is one of the masters and he's at the top of his craft with his latest, "L.A. Requiem," one of the best PI novesl of the 90s. He's also a damned fine looking man. |
| Richard Barre's detective Wil Hardesty is one of the best in the genre today. A surfer, family man, vietnam vet with his own inner demons, Hardesty wears the code of the hard-boiled PI with the ease of a Marlowe or Archer. Thrilling plots and dead-on writing make these truly memorable works of crime fiction. |
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Witty, inventive, offbeat and original describes both author Les Roberts and his creation Milan Jacovich. Start with Pepper Pike and work your way through this wonderful series that just keeps getting better and better with each new installment. Roberts writes like a man who knows his way around barrooms and typewriters. Bravo. |
| Steve Oliver has created one of the truly unique characters in PI fiction. Scott Moody is an on-again, off-again journalist, cab driver and erstwhile private eye who also happens to be a former mental patient. The setting is Spokane somewhere around the last days of Disco and with an ex-wife and a young daughter living nearby, Moody becomes involved in all sorts of madness in the world out beyond the hospital walls. |
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Jeff Parker has written a bevy of fine novels that take place in and around the wholly unexplored worlds behind the Orange Curtain in Orange County, Ca. Where Serpents Lie is by far my favorite. It's a deep, dark journey into the soul of a man and into the hearts of people good and bad who will do almost anything for justice and revenge. Parker did a masterful job tackling a difficult subject without making it the center of the book. A wonderful novel. |