RARA-AVIS: Re: Higgins, Pelecanos, Price, The Wire... please recommend some writers

From: Glenn ( sirinigar@yahoo.com)
Date: 17 Dec 2004


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Robert Wheaton <rwheaton@b...> wrote:

> I'm looking for something a bit like George V. Higgins's first books:
> something strongly dialogue-based, and something that is focused around
> the criminals (and, maybe, the police) rather than private
> investigators and the like. If the focus is modern and urban, so much
> the better -- I like Richard Price's books, for instance. I haven't
> read any of Dennis Lehane's books, but a quick browse today revealed
> that most of them are PI books, which for some reason doesn't appeal to
> me right now. I think I overdosed earlier this year.
>
> Please recommend?

Rob,

     Two new ones you might like are Boyos by Richard Marinick or Nobody Runs Forever by Richard Stark. Both are really good books. Marinick is a fist time novelist.

     A couple of others that you might like are The Narrowback or Bad Connection by Michael S. Ledwidge, I've never been disappointed by Ledwidge.

Hope this helps,

Glenn

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