Anyone who has been a screenwriter for the iconic 1980’s New York police drama Hill Street Blues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_Street_Blues) has credibility in my book. Robert Crais (http://www.robertcrais.com/) turned to writing novels in 1987 with The Monkey’s Raincoat and has subsequently built up a large body of work. He has stated that “Thematically, again and again my books are about […]
Nora Roberts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Roberts) a.k.a. ‘J.D. Robb’ is a prolific writer by any standards. She has over 200 titles to her name(s). It is by the pseudonym that Roberts writes the series of futuristic science fiction police procedurals featuring NYPSD Detective Eve Dallas and her husband Roarke. There’s certainly a lot of death on Robb’s mind – this 2013 outing is
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It’s 1948 in Los Angeles, and Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins needs to make a mortgage payment. Too bad all he has in his pocket is lint. Along comes a savior, looking like a devil and talking like a devil, but offering Easy the precious cash he needs. The man has one simple request: find the woman
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Detroit is no place for virgins, or gentlemen. Walker, who is neither, follows the 50-year-old trail of a stolen manuscript across the bleak landscape of a dead city, coming face to face with the man who murdered his partner 20 years ago. Loren D. Estleman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_D._Estleman and http://www.lorenestleman.com/) published this in 1999. Loren D. Estleman 306
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When Aaron Crown is finally imprisoned for the decades-old murder of Ely Dixon, it is to Dave Robicheaux that he proclaims his innocence loudest. Dave isn’t keen to get involved, but then a filmmaker seeking to prove Crown’s innocence is murdered and the mob accuse Dave of taking a pay-off. First published by Burke (http://jamesleeburke.com/index.html)
A Portuguese bank is founded on the back of Nazi wartime deals. Over half a century later a young girl is murdered in Lisbon. It’s 1941 and Klaus Felsen, SS, arrives in Lisbon and the strangest party in history where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs dance to the strains of opportunism and despair. Felsen’s war
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Scott Turow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Turow) gives us Rusty Sabich. He is chief deputy prosecuting attorney in a large mid-western city. His boss is in the midst of a bitter campaign for re-election. A fellow prosecuting attorney, Carolyn Polhemus, has been brutally murdered. Rusty is handling the investigation– and he needs results. Before election day. Before his illicit affair
In the fourth Dan Kavanagh (a.k.a. Julian Barnes, http://www.dankavanagh.com/index.html) novel, bisexual detective Duffy finds himself investigating a mysterious death in a country mansion. Dan Kavanagh a.k.a. Julian Barnes HarperCollins reprint paperback edition. ISBN 978-0060809539
Prolific crime writer and film producer Peter James (http://www.peterjames.com/, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_James_(writer)) has been publishing novels since 1981. He has been translated into 36 languages. His 2013 offering is Dead Man’s Time (The ninth book in the Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series). The summary goes as follows: A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly
