Now, Dave Robicheaux is a cop (though he was out of the
police for a
while). A cop cannot possibly be a P.I.
For whatever is worth, I voted for:
Easy Rawlins (Mosley)
Scudder (Block)
Nate Heller (Max Collins)
Tanner (Greenleaf)
Nameless (Pronzini)
[I think it was in that order]
with special mention of Estleman and a note on Gores.
It's interesting to see the P.I. genre change both in names
and in
popularity as time goes by. In the past decade or so seems to
have been
a growth of "crime fiction" and "romance mysteries", with
fewer titles
in the pure P.I. subgenre.
By the way, has the avalanche of serial murder stories
subsided yet? I'm
quite fed up with this theme, even if it's done brilliantly
as it is by
Thomas Harris. Serial murders have been done to death.
Regards,
Mario Taboada
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