I second the nominations of Jason Starr and Scott Phillips. I
also liked the hell out of Max Phillips's FADE TO BLONDE, but
I don't know if he has other noir books coming out.
In Finland, there's Tapani Bagge. We also had Arto Salminen
whose weird novels were strict noir, but without any thriller
or suspense elements. He died a year back. A taxi driver in
profession - now, isn't that convenient for a noirist?
Juri
PS. Am reading Laura Lippman's THE SUGAR HOUSE at the moment.
It's not hardboiled, but very intriguing - even the personal
life of Tess Monaghan, her private eye hero, seems to be
germane to the plot, which seems amazing to me, given that
these things in mystery novels feel just like padding.
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