I've read the first two or maybe three. The first in the
series involves a witness to the King assassination, after
which the protagonists hide in Chicago in time for the events
of 1968 there. I've enjoyed the books for their
inside-history aspects, and they're written well enough, but
the suspense-thriller-romance---generic genre, could we call
it?---framing starts to pall.
Joy
E. Borgers asked:
> I'm reading a novel by Kris Nelscott: THIN WALLS-
from her Smokey
> Dalton series (an occasional Black investigator). It
seems to be
> something like a derivate from Walter Mosley's Easy
Rowlins' series, a
> story centered on Black Americans but not really
immersed in that
> community. And certainly not with the same social
acuity that Mosley put
> in his works.
> It's a kind of thriller/suspense novel with some
noir ingredients, but
> it seems to me rather superficial even if the author
tries to reach
> higher grounds. Nelscott appears to be a prolific
writer and produces
> many series.
>
> Any Avian who knows better her corpus could confirm
(or contradict) my
> rather negative feelings about the writer and her
Smokey Dalton series?
> Thanks in advance.
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