Barbara Seranella's Munch Mancini is an ex-addict trying to
go straight as a car mechanic, despite the old friends and
relatives who'd drag her back. Not much glamor or romance,
just hard work trying to stay out of trouble and do what's
right, with mundane work and fears. I like the series a lot.
Try one.
I don't know the Stansberry, but I do
know maybe half of the others, and I'll comment on what's
left tomorrow.
Good night for now, Joy
William Denton asked:
> The 1 May 2004 issue of BOOKLIST (from the American
Library Association,
> so North Americans can probably find it at their
local library) has a
> feature called "A Hard-Boiled Gazetteer to Southern
California," by Bill
> Ott. Below are all the books he mentions, which are
mostly series. Some
> seem a bit light on the hardboiled/noir credentials
(excepting Ellroy, Mr.
> Lankford, Crais, etc.), but many names are either
new to me or ones I've
> only seen on bookstore shelves. What's the verdict
on, say, Seranella's
> Munch Mancini series? And has anyone read
Stansberry's MANIFESTO FOR THE
> DEAD, where Jim Thompson is ficionalized?
>
> Santa Barbara
> Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series
>
> Downtown Los Angeles
> Joseph Wambaugh's cop novels
> James Ellroy's LA Quartet
>
> Hollywood
> Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware series
> John Morgan Wilson's Benjamin Justice
series
> Paula L. Woods's Charlotte Justice series
> Elmore Leonard's two books with Chili Palmer (inc.
GET SHORTY)
> Steven Bochco's Eddie Jelko books
> Domininc Stansberry, MANIFESTO FOR THE DEAD (2000),
which is a
> "fictionalized treatment of the last days of noir
master Jim
> Thompson"
> Robert Ferrigno's Jimmy Gage series
> Edward Wright's John Ray Horn series
> Terrill Lee Lankford, "a Mark Hayes novel," i.e.
EARTHQUAKE
> WEATHER (2004) which is the only such
thing
> Stuart Kaminsky's Toby Peters series
> Robert B. Campbell's Whistler series
>
> Laurel Canyon and the Hollywood Hills
> Robert Crais's Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series
> Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series
>
> South Central LA
> Gar Anthony Haywood's Aaron Gunner series
> Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series
> Gary Phillips's Ivan Monk series
> John Shannon's Jack Liffey series
>
> West Valley
> Faye Kellerman's Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
series
>
> Santa Monica
> April Smith's Ana Grey series
> Barbara Seranella's Munch Mancini series
> Elzabeth M. Cosin's Zen Moses series
>
> Orange County
> T. Jefferson Parker's Merci Rayborn
series
>
> Palm Springs
> Michael Craft's Claire Gray series
>
> San Diego
> Steve Martini's Paul Madriani series
> Jack Trolley's Tommy Donahoo series
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