Would appreciate any comment on these books I bought
today:
A Shadow in the Wild by Whit Masterson
I know it's the pseudonym under which the Wade Miller pair
wrote the book Touch of Evil was based on. Never heard of
this. Any good?
The Devil's Home on Leave by Derek Raymond
Already read it, but it was cheap. This mass market paperback
will be easier to carry around when I reread it.
A Devil for O'Shaugnessy/Three Way Split by Gil Brewer
Recently praised here.
The Dead Past & Sorrow's Crown by Tom Piccirilli
Just finished his upcoming, great The Cold Spot, which I'll
comment on later. This pair is from a decade earlier. It's a
Berkeley Prime Crime Mystery, published around the time they
were narrowing their line to mostly female writers and
characters, judging by the series advertised inside (and
dumping writers like John Shannon, if I recall correctly).
Guess Piccirilli made the cut because his Felicity Grove
series is about Grandma Anna, along with her grandson,
Jonathan Kendrick, described by Ed Gorman as, "one part Matt
Scudder, one part aging Huck Finn, and one part Archie
Goodwin." Looks a bit cozy to me, but Cold Spot impressed me
enough to want to check out others by him. Maybe it'll be a
dark small town series like John J. Riggs's (also from
Berkeley). Liked that one a lot.
Mark
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