Don't know if I mentioned these others, in addition to
O'Neill's 'Shark Tank,' but the cream of the noir &
hardboiled I've read in the past few months is:
Richard Barre's new standalone - 'Echo Bay.' Great taut plot
and his clipped, throwaway delivery, plus a nifty ice-queen
role that you can just picture the older Barbara Stanwick
in... The plot is pretty much the same kind of thing as the
Wil Hardesty books - the past is always present - but he does
it so well.
Olen Steinhauer's 'The Confession' - terrific East European
noir, brutal, moving, haunting, terrific writing, great
antihero.
Brian Freemantle's fine international thriller
'Triple Cross,' with a nice complex procedural plot - hard to
put down, with some nice suprises along the way.
And my favorite - David Lawrence's The Dead Sit Round in a
Ring, the American debut of a great, ultra-bleak British
series with above average writing.
David Wright
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Craig.Larson@trinidadstate.edu> wrote:
> I just finished William Landay's _Mission
> Flats_ yesterday
> and liked it a lot. Though set in a
fictional
> neighborhood
> in Boston, I thought he really captured
the
> feel of the place--
> the low lives who run the drug trade, the
> upright citizens
> afraid to testify against them, etc. It
> reminded me a lot of
> Dennis Lehane's Kenzie/Gennaro books. And
the
> naive, young
> police chief who is the book's narrator,
proves
> to be not
> quite so naive as the book goes on--he's got
a
> couple of big,
> bombshell secrets that he keeps until late
in
> the proceedings
> that cause us to rethink his narration
(not
> completely, but
> just enough). It's hard to picture
another
> book with this
> same protagonist, but Landay really did a
nice
> job in this,
> his debut.
>
> Craig Larson
> Trinidad, CO
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