Re: RARA-AVIS: Recent Reading

From: David Wright ( dwright333@yahoo.com)
Date: 10 Jun 2004


Don't know if I mentioned these others, in addition to O'Neill's 'Shark Tank,' but the cream of the noir & hardboiled I've read in the past few months is:

Richard Barre's new standalone - 'Echo Bay.' Great taut plot and his clipped, throwaway delivery, plus a nifty ice-queen role that you can just picture the older Barbara Stanwick in... The plot is pretty much the same kind of thing as the Wil Hardesty books - the past is always present - but he does it so well.

Olen Steinhauer's 'The Confession' - terrific East European noir, brutal, moving, haunting, terrific writing, great antihero.

Brian Freemantle's fine international thriller
'Triple Cross,' with a nice complex procedural plot - hard to put down, with some nice suprises along the way.

And my favorite - David Lawrence's The Dead Sit Round in a Ring, the American debut of a great, ultra-bleak British series with above average writing.

David Wright

--- "Larson, Craig"
< Craig.Larson@trinidadstate.edu> wrote:
> I just finished William Landay's _Mission
> Flats_ yesterday
> and liked it a lot. Though set in a fictional
> neighborhood
> in Boston, I thought he really captured the
> feel of the place--
> the low lives who run the drug trade, the
> upright citizens
> afraid to testify against them, etc. It
> reminded me a lot of
> Dennis Lehane's Kenzie/Gennaro books. And the
> naive, young
> police chief who is the book's narrator, proves
> to be not
> quite so naive as the book goes on--he's got a
> couple of big,
> bombshell secrets that he keeps until late in
> the proceedings
> that cause us to rethink his narration (not
> completely, but
> just enough). It's hard to picture another
> book with this
> same protagonist, but Landay really did a nice
> job in this,
> his debut.
>
> Craig Larson
> Trinidad, CO
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