In a message dated 6/3/09 8:49:05 PM, jmatkowski1@comcast.net writes:
> L. T. Fawkes has a series about Terry Saltz, a working-class guy who
> lives in a doublewide somewhere in Ohio, and it's all "normal," meaning
> no condescension. It isn't noir, and it's rarely hardboiled, but it's
> crime fiction. IIRC there's an ex-wife who tries to take him for all
> he's worth, which isn't much, while he's in jail after a bar fight,
> which is regarded as the normal course of life. In the first book,
> Terry's delivering pizza, getting coworkers' tips on getting better
> tips. In the second book, he's doing construction, adding a deck.
> "Fawkes" self-published Cold Slice, and a publisher picked up the
> series and gave her a male-sounding nom de plume. I liked the
> self-published one best; it was a little rawer around the edges. I can't
> remember her real name, but maybe I'll find the book in one of these
> boxes someday.
>
this sounds great
John Lau
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