My votes First, some additions to the list: 1. Meg Gardner
(series, Jenny Siler; EASY MONEY, ICED), an ex-con moving up
in the world from package deliveries to repo work. 2. Casey
Jones (series, Katy Munger, BAD TO THE BONE, BETTER OFF DEAD,
etc.), tartnoir, unlicenseable (another ex-con) PI with
humor. 3. Frank Marvelli and Loretta Kovacs (series, Anthony
Bruno (DEVIL'S FOOD, etc.), NJ state employees who hunt down
parole violators, with humor. Bruno has another series
featuring hardboiled FBI agents, each book starting with BAD.
4. Maureen O'Donnell (GARNETHILL, Denise Mina), incest
survivor and months out of a mental hospital, she wakes up
with a hangover and finds her psychiatrist boyfriend stabbed
to death in her kitchen. For a hundred pages or so, I thought
this would be a classic "unreliable narrator." 5. Amos Walker
(series, Loren D. Estleman) 6. Arkady Renko (series, Martin
Cruz Smith) 7. Bridgett Logan (series, Greg Rucka) 8. Charles
LeBlanc(TIDEWATER BLOOD, William Hoffman) 9. Chili Palmer
(GET SHORTY and BE COOL, Elmore Leonard) 10. Dan Fortune
(series,Michael Collins) 11. Easy Rawlins (series, Walter
Mosley) 12. Eva Wylie (BUCKET NUT, Liza Cody) 13. Harry aka
Hieronymus Bosch (series, Michael Connelly) 14. Hoke Moseley
(series, Charles Willeford) 15. John Rebus (series, Ian
Rankin) 16. Kinsey Millhone (series, Sue Grafton) 17. Lew
Archer (series, Ross Macdonald) 18. Munch Mancini (series,
Barbara Seranella) 19. Shan Tao Yun (SKULL MANTRA and WATER
TOUCHING STONE, Eliot Pattison) 20. Tom Bethany (series,
Jerome Doolittle)
Not too hard if you're not an English major and don't pay
respect to the acknowledged masters on account of you read
them a very long time ago and don't clearly remember them. I
also deleted a lot of nominated characters that I like very
much but just don't think of them as hardboiled.
Joy, who'll have new favorites soon
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