I just finished Jason Starr's Fake I.D. the other night and
would add it to the list. Next on my TBR list is Jason's
Nothing Personal. I also want to agree with those who
mentioned Ken Bruen's The Guards and The Killing of the
Tinkers and David Peace's Quartet even though the first book,
1974, was published in 1999. Candleland by Martyn Waites also
deserves consideration. The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh is
the best book I have read this year, but despite its
darkness, I'm not sure if the hardboiled/noir experts on this
list would agree it belongs here. Any comments?
Someone suggested a visit to the Murder One bookstore for our
list member (Jim?) who is off to London for an awards event.
While I agree that it's worth a visit and you can find books
published in the US that you probably won't see in US stores,
often you can't find UK books. And prices are high except on
a large table towards the back of the store where many US
hardcovers have been discounted. On my last visit, I only
bought one UK paperback by Ron Ellis.
Anyone looking for UK-published books a few years old should
check out the Bookends store down the street from Murder One
on Charing Cross Rd. There also are Bookends stores in
several large cities and in Hay-on-Wye, the booktown on the
England/Wales border. It was Bookends where I found the Jason
Starr and David Peace books plus UK reprints of Charles
Willeford a couple of years ago. When I was in Bookends on
Charing Cross Rd. in August, the TPBs were priced at two for
four or five lbs. Sometimes you can get them for 99p.
Kent Morgan
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