Several good current authors and series: Loren Estleman (Detroit PI Amos Walker), Andrew Vachess (avenging angel Burke), Lawrence Block (the incomporable Matt Scudder); Robert Parker (Spenser), the late Eugene Izzi (no series, but some of the best hardboiled fiction out there). A lesser known but talented writer is Tom Lipinski (2 books about Pittsburgh P.I. Carroll Dorsey-from St. Martin's Press. Well worth the search) Try these, see how you like them. - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca