Right now I'm reading a new author ARC, Peter Spiegelman's
Black Maps, which fits the loser PI model very well, to the
extent that his siblings call him a loser to his face. Great
book if the ending holds up.
The last PI I read was Lovers
Crossing by another new author, James C. Mitchell. At the
book's start, he isn't that much of a loser except that he's
a PI because he was shot up as a border patrol agent, but his
personal life unravels over the course of the book. Also a
book worth reading.
The only PI I read in June was Ken
Bruen's The Guards, in which the PI is an alcoholic in the
process of being evicted.
Joy
Michael R Robison challenged:
> They don't lose at their jobs, but the rest of their
life
> sucks. They have few friends. They don't like hardly
anybody.
> They are not happy. If they have a relationship at
all with
> someone of the opposite sex, it's usually
dysfunctional. Let
> me name the authors of the last 10 private/police
detective
> novels I've read: Taibo, Hammett, Prather, Hamilton,
Sallis,
> Estelman, Torrey, Lochte, McGivern, Corris. Two of
them are
> old enough that they had no private life, Torrey and
Hammett.
> That leaves 8. Out of those 8, only Prather's Shell
Scott was
> a happy camper, and he is so ridiculous as to not
hardly count.
>
> Name the last few detective novels you've read. No
cheating
> and culling the list to fit the premise, either. I
wanna hear
> about some of these hardboiled winners.
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