In late 2004 Juri Nummelin asked people on the list what they thought
were the best hardboiled and noir books published since 2000. Here
are the results.
- Richard Aleas: Little Girl Lost
- Brian Azzarello: 100 Bullets (DC/Vertigo)
- Ray Banks: The Big Blind
- Lawrence Block: Enough Rope
- Anthony Bourdain: Bobby Gold
- David Bowker: The Death You Deserve
- Ken Bruen: The Guards,
The Killing of the Tinkers,
"anything and everything"
- Declan Burke: Eight Ball Boogie
- Daniel Chavarria: Adios Muchachos
- Reed Farrell Coleman: The James Deans
- Mark T. Conard: Dark as Night
- Michael Connelly: Void Moon, City of Bones
- David Corbett: The Devil's Redhead, Done for a
Dime
- Rick DeMarinis: A Clod of Wayward Marl
- Sean Doolittle: Dirt
- Victor Gischler: Gun Monkeys
- Joe Gores: Cons, Scams &Amp; Grifts
- Al Guthrie: Two-Way Split
- Clark Howard: Crowded Lives, Challenge the
Widow-Maker
- Simon Kernick: The Businees of Dying, The
Murder Exchange, The Crime Trade
- Terrill Lankford: Earthquake Weather
- Eddie Muller: The Distance, Shadow Boxer
- Jack O'Connell: Word Made Flesh
- David Peace: Quarter
- George Pelecanos: Shame the Devil
- Scott Phillips: The Ice Harvest, The
Walkaway, Cottonwood
- D.B.C. Pierre: Vernon God Little
- Manuel Ramos: Moony's Road to Hell
- James Sallis: Cypress Grove
- Dan Simmons: Hardcase, Hard Freeze,
Hard as Nails
- Jason Starr: Twisted City, Hard
Feelings, Tough Luck, Fake I.D.
- Richard Stark: Breakout, "anything"
- Charlie Stella: Charlie Opera
- Duane Swierczwynski: Secret Dead Men
- Martyn Waites: Candleland
- Louise Welsh: The Cutting Room
- Kevin Wignall: For the Dogs
- Charlie Williams: Deadfolk
- Daniel Woodrell: Tomato Red, Woe to Live On,
The Death of Sweet Mister
- Dave Zeltserman: Fast Lane
Last updated: 06 June 2006 22:50:50 EDT
