stevefinbow wrote:
Can anyone give me their opinions as to who are the best
(young) crime writers publishing in the UK and USA?
I'm not even going to try to be impartial here. I'm just
going to list some people I've been lucky enough to publish
over the last few years. In the UK I'd like to commend David
Peace (who's finally getting a proper publication in the US
now with Tokyo: Year Zero, which is great, though I'd
recommend starting with the Red Riding Quartet). Also Charlie
Williams, whose wonderful Mangel Trilogy manages to channel
Jim Thompson and Magnus Mills at the same time. Also Robert
Lewis whose upcoming Swansea Terminal is the best PI novel
I've read in an age. As for the US, the two upcoming novels
we have from Dave Zeltserman are as good as modern noir gets.
On an US/Irish tip there's Adrian McKinty, whose new one, The
Bloomsday Dead, is a very fine all-action shoot-em-up. And on
the margins of rara-avis territory there's Cathi Unsworth's
The Singer, a punk rock noir.
stevefinbow also wrote
And does anyone know of any decent contemporary South African
crime writers (I'm in Johannesburg for a month and would like
to check out the scene - I already know Phaswane Mpe,
Kgebetli Moele, and have read Norman Ohler's Ponte
City).
The short answer to this is no, but I'd certainly like to
know something about the writers you mention.
John
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