I picked up SMALL CRIMES (Serpent's Tail, UK) last weekend, and I'm looking
forward to reading it very soon. I read FAST LANE a few weeks ago and
enjoyed it, and I understand from Dave he's even more pleased with this one.
Ron C.
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> Behalf Of Nathan Cain
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> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Small Crimes
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> I just finished Dave Zeltserman's Small Crimes this morning, and it's
> my favorite book of the year so far as new fiction goes. Zeltserman's
> small town bad cop noir obviously owes a lot to Jim Thompson, but it
> ends up being more than an imitation because the only person
> Zeltserman's protagonist is fooling is himself. Everyone else seems to
> have him figured out. Since it's in first person and the narrator is
> unreliable the reader has to rely on external cues to try and figure
> out to what extent the main character is deceiving himself. It's a
> very effective technique for keeping the book interesting. If it had
> been more straightforward the story would have had less impact. All in
> all a well told tale.
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