A plug for T Jefferson Parker - this is a winner, West Coast
elegaic HB - unputdownable, recommended. Read it back to back
with Clark Howard's "City Blood" which is more visceral but
no worse, only different. Two HB writers who deliver IMHO.
Now on to A.W. Gray who also packs a mean punch. North,
South, West, Now East.. Later, Jim S.
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RARA-AVIS Digest Sunday, June 18 2000 Volume 03 : Number
303
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RARA-AVIS: Books and babies
RARA-AVIS: The next Elmore Leonard --
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Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 07:52:46 EDT From:
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babies
Congrats on the new baby, Paul. I will definitely look for
your books when I get back to Europe later this month. NOIR
FICTION: DARK HIGHWAYS sounds especially interesting to me as
you included one of my all-time favs, Gerald
Kersh. Collecting Kersh is a challenge for an American as so
much only appeared in the UK and so many short stories are
uncollected. He is worth the effort. Another writer you
mentioned, John Franklin Bardin, I remembered being wowed by
years ago. Novels that drift into the surreal and explore
insanity have a special fascination for me. (Yes, I know this
will prompt knowing smiles and nods from friends sitting in
the peanut gallery)
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Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:59:59 -0400 From: "Frederick
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Leonard -- accroding to Library Journal
LEONARD, Elmore. Pagan Babies. Delacorte. Sept. 2000. 224p.
ISBN 0-385-33392-7. $24.95. abridged. BDD Audio. ISBN
0-553-52751-7. $25.95. abridged. BDD Audio. ISBN
0-553-71228-4. $29.95. This novel opens with a tragedy --
Hutus storm a church and kill everyone but priest Terry Dunn,
saying his first mass -- and then segues (rather
incongruously, it seems) into what publicity calls "Leonard's
funniest straight-faced novel to date." At home in Detroit to
raise funds for Rwanda's orphans, Terry meets tough stand-up
comic Debbie Dewey, on the lookout for a guy who conned her
out of some big dough. Soon they're in cahoots, and Debbie
learns that there is more to Terry than meets the eye.
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