Unfortunately, I think the last five years or so have
demonstrated that aside from the brand names, there isn't
much interest in PI. Too many really good writers have either
stopped publishing (Thomas Lipinsky, Richard Barre, D. Daniel
Judson, the aforementioned Lyons, though that goes back
fifteen years or so, as does Jonathan Valin), or have stopped
working in PI for whatever reason (Jeremiah Healy, G.M. Ford,
Lehane). The last real break-outs in PI have been Steve
Hamilton and Laura Lippman, and they go back close to ten
years. There are some good young turks out there, like
Michael Koryta, Jim Winter and some others, but the last few
years haven't been very encouraging.
Steve Miller
> > From: "Dave Zeltserman" <
davezelt@comcast.net>
> I'm not sure I buy that the PI has fallen out of
favor. Block,
> Crais, Connelly, Deaver, Coben, Mosley all sell a
ton of books, but
> I think we're increasingly seeing the larger
publishing houses
> falling into this superstar mentality - if a book
doesn't look like
> its going to sell a gazillion copies all at once,
the houses seem
> less likely take on a book or promote it. So the
only PI books that
> get any promotion and mass distribution each year
are the couple of
> dozen from the superstar authors.
>
>
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