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Originally Posted by Steve Anderson
I'm currently reading Die A Little, the first of Megan Abbott's 50s crime noir novels that have a female POV. The writing's competent but feels more like a literary novel than a crime story so far, with no real incident to move the plot forward almost a quarter of the way in.
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I read Megan Abbott's first four noir novels earlier this year, in order. I liked
Die a Little quite a bit--the pace does pick up--but the later novels are even better, especially
Queenpin and
Bury Me Deep.