Not to be repetitive, but the best novel I read this year was
Fat City by Leonard Gardner. I can't recommend it enough.
Other good ones were: Richard Bachman's Blaze, Cain's The
Postman Always Rings Twice (no matter how many times I read
it, I still find it perfect), Dan Marlowe's The Name of the
Game is Death (same as Postman...), Charlie Huston's Caught
Stealing, James Reasoner's Death Head Crossing, Iain
Levison's Since the Layoffs (obscure yet deserving of more
recognition). Best non fiction: Francine Prose's Reading Like
a Writer.
The worst: Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein, Joe Hill's
Heart-Shaped Box (never understood the hype), Doris Lessing's
The Cleft and Don DeLillo's Falling Man.
-Gonzalo B. saddlebums.blogspot.com
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Zeltserman"
<dz@...> wrote:
>
> My favorite crime fiction novel read during 2007 was
The Dain Curse
by
> Hammett, but my favorite new crime novel was
Reasonable Doubts by
> Gianrico Carofiglio. Other very good novels read:
Dead Street by the
> Mick, Robbie's Wife by Russell Hill (maybe the best
true noir novel
> I've come across in years), Cross by Ken Bruen,
Cruel Poetry by Vicki
> Hendricks, reprints by Hardcase: Vengeful Virgin,
The Peddler, The
Last
> Dodge--all excellent.
>
> --Dave Zeltserman
> http://smallcrimes-novel.blogspot.com
>
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