For any other list members who share the same new guy in town
addiction and
would like to see a different take on it, may I recommend
Bill Pronzini's A
Wasteland of Strangers. It's far more complex than such
novels usually are
and is based less on preceeding crime fiction than on Edward
Arlington
Robinson's Tilbury Town verse portraits, yet it remains, at
least at its
most elementary level, a fair-play murder mystery. It's a
stunning
accomplishment.
The book was up for a Best Novel Edgar last year, but lost
out to Cimarron
Rose. In my opinion, it was the biggest robbery since Jimmy
Burke took down
Lufthansa.
Paul Bergin
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