RARA-AVIS: mysteries
Mark Sullivan (ANONYMEINC@webtv.net)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 00:20:47 -0400 (EDT)
Recently, a few people were lamenting that to most people
"Mystery"
meant cozy, as in Murder She Wrote. Don't forget legal
thrillers. I say
mystery and people start talking about Grisham. I've never read
him,
don't particularly want to. When I first saw his books, way
back when,
the blurb compared him positively to Presumed Innocent. I
hated
Presumed Innocent. As a matter of fact, the only writer of
legal
thrillers I can think of that I like is Walter Walker. Although
they
end in courtrooms, Two Dude Defense and Rules of the Knife
Fight are
pretty hardboiled, particularly the latter, from its opening
crime when
a husband ends up killing the drifter he brought home for his
wife's
birthday present to the aftermath of the trial for that
murder.
Mark
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