Now that I've recovered from the Malice Domestic convention 2
weeks ago
(plucky sleuths! cat PI's! cook PI's! plucky cooking sleuths
with cats!) and my teeth have stopped aching from all the
sweetness, I am pleased to report that the hard-boiled novel
cannot be dead, not as long as there's a new Richard Stark
coming out. And there is.
According to the ad in the MD program, Flashfire, a Parker
novel, will be published in November 2000. This is really
great news because this book was supposed to come out last
fall and didn't. It looked like maybe Parker's comeback had
come and gone. Yayyy.
And I'd like to add that the hard-boiled genre has a major
fan in Sonny Mehta, the esteemed Editor-in-Chief of Knopf.
Some of his books in the past year were God Is A Bullet,
California Fire and Life, Everybody Smokes In Hell and the
latest Robert Ferrigno, the title of which escapes me at the
moment. As long as he is on the job, there will be hb fiction
on the bookshelves.
Finally, if anyone's looking for a great hb book, try The
Narrowback by Michael Ledwige. It's not a PI story, it's
about a criminal trying to escape the scene of the crime.
It's as dark and raw as a Pittsburgh-style steak.
Regards, Martha
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