Chris,
Have you read Reed Farrel Coleman's Moe Prager series? I think it's really great, maybe even better than Spiegelman's. Interestingly, what led me to finally read Spiegelman was his intro to one of the Prager novels.
Oh, and if you can stand another recent first person PI, I recommend Michael Kortya's Lincoln Perry series.
Anyone got any other recommendations of recent PIs?
Mark
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> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 02:00:49 +0000
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Trigger City by Sean Chercover
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> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Mark Sullivan <DJ-Anonyme@...> wrote:
> > I enjoyed his first, a solid debut, and have been looking forward to the second, but paperback looking forward to, not hardback looking forward to, which I reserve for a very select few, one of which we've recently lost, Westlake/Stark's Parker books.
> > Mark
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> I too recommend Trigger City. I picked up Chercover's debut, Big City, Bad Blood in 2007 literally(!) because I was locked out of my house and wanted to read while I passed the time. For better or worse, I was not interested in another first person P.I. series at the time, but Chercover easily won me over and I was very much looking forward to Trigger City.
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> I have since become a reader of Spiegelman's series too, so am not sure why I was so reluctant for new P.I. series at the time.
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> Chris
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