For the record, Dave's Vampire Crimes is nothing like Huston's Joe Pitt novels. They're both very good, but in different veins (yes, pun intended). Huston's series (reading the latest right now) is essentially a PI series, with Pitt as the independent investigator who won't buckle down to authority; they hire him because they need someone outside their bureaucracy to do a job, but can't reign him in when the job expands. Dave's book, which I hope will one day be a series, at least starts as a couple on the run book, where a down on the luck couple just want to be left alone to work their petty scams, but of course sinister forces are after them.
The thing they both have in common is that their protagonists are down and dirty street level vampires, not the elegant ones of tween dreams, Near Dark not Twilight (at least the impression I have of Twilight).
Mark
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> From: sforstater@yahoo.com
> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:55:59 -0800
> Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Re: other noir- HB discussion places?
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> thanks for the heads up, ron. i'll be checking it out.
>
> i do like charlie huston's hb vampire series.
>
> i did accompany my gf to the 'twilight' movie. i survived, but it was touch and go for a while.
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> --- On Wed, 11/18/09, Ron Clinton <clinton65@comcast.net> wrote:
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> From: Ron Clinton <clinton65@comcast.net>
> Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Re: other noir- HB discussion places?
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 11:57 AM
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> That site had a link to your vampire excerpt, Dave -- good stuff. Makes me
> think of a shudder pulp with a modern-day slant. I burnt out on vampires
> quite a while ago, but I'm looking forward to this one.
>
> Ron C.
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> > Ed Gorman and Bill Crider often talk about hardboiled and noir books on
> their
> > blogs, among other subjects (Bill is also kind enough to keep us up to
> date on the
> > frequent persecutions of his beloved Paris Hilton ;)) To find these blogs
> and many
> > other crime fiction related blogs, check out:
> >
> > http://www.crimespot.net/
> >
> > IT's pretty cool, kind of a repository of all these blogs, showing the
> latest ones that
> > have activity.
> >
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