Jordan asked:
"I tend to shy away from female authors, because I prefer
male perspectives (for crime novels). But I'm willing to
look: who are the best female hard boiled & noir
authors?"
I highly recommend Vicki Hendrick's work, beginning with
Miami Purity. I just finished Christa Faust's Money Shot,
which was very good. Of older stuff, there's Dorothy Hughes,
whose In A Lonely Place is very good. Interestingly, she and
Leigh Brackett (always? I haven't read enough of them to
know) often wrote from a male perspective. Patricia
Highsmith's Ripley books re alos from a male perspective. If
you want the flip, Robert Eversz has a first person female
series about Nina Zero. I've heard raves about Val McDermid,
but I've never read her. Oh yeah, I was blown away by Denise
Mina's Garnethill, need to get others by her. I've enjoyed
several of Sara Paretsky's PI novels, but some find her too
strident in her politics.
Mark
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