ciao,
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Mark Sullivan wrote:
> Recently, a few people were lamenting that to most
people "Mystery"
> meant cozy, as in Murder She Wrote. Don't forget
legal thrillers. I say
> mystery and people start talking about Grisham. I've
never read him,
> don't particularly want to. When I first saw his
books, way back when,
> the blurb compared him positively to Presumed
Innocent. I hated
> Presumed Innocent. As a matter of fact, the only
writer of legal
> thrillers I can think of that I like is Walter
Walker. Although they
> end in courtrooms, Two Dude Defense and Rules of the
Knife Fight are
> pretty hardboiled, particularly the latter, from its
opening crime when
> a husband ends up killing the drifter he brought home
for his wife's
> birthday present to the aftermath of the trial for
that murder.
>
> Mark
>
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