I read the first one a long time ago. I entered a bit skeptical, as it revolves around the hoary cliche urban legend of waking up in an ice filled bathtub with a kidney missing. But he made it work. I liked the writing a lot, particularly the questionable reliability of the narrator. I bought the second, however, I still have not gotten to it.
Mark
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> From: davidcorbettauthor@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:46:06 +0000
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Will Christopher Baer's Phineas Poe series
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> A writer I've been meaning to get to -- which means he's part of a towering juggernaut of books I've meant to read but can't seem to do so -- is Will Christopher Baer, specifically his Phineas Poe series: Kiss Me, Judas; Penny Dreadful; and Hell's Half Acre. Every time I crack open one of the books to a random page I really enjoy what's there -- smart, quickly-paced, funny, dark -- but I'm just so consumed these days with things I HAVE to read, I get so little time for pleasure reading. Should I kick this collection (all 3 books in a MacAdam Cage volume, probably OOP now, given the fate of the publishing house) to the top of my TBR pile? He wrote my favorite story in San Francisco Noir, and I feel like a putz for not having read him yet.
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> Anyone?
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> David Corbett
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