Anyone remember this? I was writing an article for a Finnish magazine about the
new noir renaissance and asked on this list suggestions for the best noir books
that was published after 2000. Here's the list:
Richard Aleas: Little Girl Lost
Brian Azzarello: 100 Bullets (graphic novel)
Ray Banks: The Big Blind
Lawrence Block: Enough Rope
Anthony Bourdain: Bobby Bold
David Bowker: The Death You Deserve
Ken Bruen: The Guards; The Killing of the Tinkers
Declan Burke: Eight Ball Boogie
Daniel Chavarria: Adios Muchachos
Reed Farrell Coleman: The James Deans
Mark T. Conard: Dark As Night
Michael Connelly: City of Bones; Void Moon
David Corbett: The Devil?s Redhead; Done for a Dime
Rick DeMarinis: A Clod of Wayward Marl
Sean Doolittle: Dirt
Victor Gischler: Gun Monkeys
Joe Gores: Cons, Scams & Grits
Allan Guthrie: Two-Way Split
Clark Howard: Crowded Lives; Challenge the Widow-Maker
Simon Kernick: The Business of Dying; The Murder Exchange; The Crime Trade
Terrill Lankford: Earthquake Weather
Eddie Muller: The Distance; Shadow Boxer
Jack O'Connell: Word Made Flesh
T. Jefferson Parker: Silent Joe; Cold Pursuit; Red Light; Black Water;
California Girl
George Pelecanos: Shame the Devil
Scott Phillips: The Ice Harvest; The Walkaway; Cottonwood
D.B.C. Pierre: Vernon God Little
Manuel Ramos: Moony?s Road to Hell
James Sallis: Cypress Grove
Dan Simmons: Hardcase; Hard Freeze; Hard As Nails
Richard Stark (Donald Westlake): Breakout
Jason Starr: Twisted City; Hard Feelings; Tough Luck; Fake I.D.
Charlie Stella: Charlie Opera
I think this was made before James Sallis's DRIVE came out, otherwise it would
just have to be there. And no Duane Swierczynski, no Megan Abbott, no Christa
Faust, no Declan Burke... we are living a golden era, folks. (At least were,
given the publishing crisis.)
Juri
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