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Thanks for the recommendations KentE. I snapped up the Freemantle one first thing and already have Westlake's Hot Rocks bought for pennies with a Kobo coupon a few months back. I liked the look of the Jon Land books so bought both of those, plus the James Ellroy (there is golf in it!!) and the Jonathan King (very good reviews). I wanted the John Harvey but it's not available in Canada. I'll take a second look at the other two you mentioned.

Mixed in with the usual crop of PIs I noticed from the descriptions that there are some books that might appeal to those not keen on the mystery genre. The House of Dies Drear is a YA mystery involving a spooky house and the Underground Railway. Talk, Dark, and Deadly is more romance than mystery. No Beast so Fierce is semi-autobiographical since the author spent much of his life behind bars and wrote his way out of prison according to the author bio.