Barbara Fister's In the Wind, her new series featuring a female ex-cop
and new PI in Chicago.
That was easy, Kevin. Another softball, please.
Joy
Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
> Sorry for the rare cross-post, but I posted this to DetecToday, and I
> thought some of you here might be also interested.
>
> These two ladies were picking through the stacks, and one of them was
> pulling out books, one at a time, and then promptly putting them back.
>
> "Ugh! Another cozy! I want something less, uh, fluffyish."
>
> Her friend suggested Sue Grafton.
>
> "Oh, yeah, I love her and Sara Paretsky and Laura Lippman and all
> those, but I want to read a new female private eye, and all they have
> are cozies!"
>
> Could it be true? Are there really no new female eyes out there worth
> reading? It certainly seems like the female P.I. boom of the eighties
> and nineties(when some so-so male writers were complaining only women
> could get P.I. novels published) has become a trickle... but still. No
> new ones worth reading?
>
> Discuss among yourselves...
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