While not a crime novel Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor has
its noirish impulses, and is about as grimy (and brilliant) a
novel as you're going to find written by a male or
female.
--Dave Z.
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
>
> Jordan asked:
>
> "I tend to shy away from female authors, because I
prefer male
> perspectives (for crime novels). But I'm willing to
look: who are
the
> best female hard boiled & noir
authors?"
>
> I highly recommend Vicki Hendrick's work, beginning
with Miami
Purity.
> I just finished Christa Faust's Money Shot, which
was very good. Of
> older stuff, there's Dorothy Hughes, whose In A
Lonely Place is very
> good. Interestingly, she and Leigh Brackett (always?
I haven't read
> enough of them to know) often wrote from a male
perspective.
Patricia
> Highsmith's Ripley books re alos from a male
perspective. If you
want
> the flip, Robert Eversz has a first person female
series about Nina
> Zero. I've heard raves about Val McDermid, but I've
never read
her. Oh
> yeah, I was blown away by Denise Mina's Garnethill,
need to get
others
> by her. I've enjoyed several of Sara Paretsky's PI
novels, but some
> find her too strident in her politics.
>
> Mark
>
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