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08-06-2013, 11:30 PM | #33 |
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I'd recommend the John Ceepak mysteries, by Chris Grabenstein. The stories are set in a mostly middle class Jersey shore summer resort town. The two protagonists, John Ceepak and Danny Boyle, are police officers rather than proper detectives, but the stories are uniformly good. The ebook versions of the earliest volumes are very reasonably priced.
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I don't know about tomyoung but Robert Parker prose was overly simplistic. Stuart Woods writes knock-off material. You get the sense that you've read the stories before. He simulates other's work by changing the stories ever so slightly.
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08-07-2013, 09:34 AM | #36 |
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I prefer the Logan McRae series to the few Rebus books I've read, but MacBride can be very dark and bit twisted. The macabre humour appeals to me though
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One author I don't like is Elizabeth George. Her books are too depressing, and I find her depiction of Britain to be unconvincing (she's an American author writing "British" books). I think in general it's a bad idea for an author to write books set in a country which is not their own, although I have heard it said that Lee Child is reasonably convincing as a British author writing "American" books.
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I see Robert Crais has already been mentioned. I like his Joe Pike character/series. I really liked Put a Lid on It by Donald Westlake. His series involves THIEVES not detectives, but Put a Lid on It has a reluctant detective of sorts. It has a lot of humor and is quite a fun adventure. If you want to try dry wit/cozy Sherban Young has some decent stories. J.R. Levitt (out of print) writes some VERY good mysteries if you can find them. Is Frederick Forsyth American? I don't know, but would recommend his books. He's more an assassin/problem solver but good thrillers. |
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She seems to have lost heart herself, in the last few books. The main characters act 'out of character', and I wondered if she is just writing from necessity, rather than truly having more to explore with the series. I guess the moral is that I shouldn't buy a whole series at once, because I feel some pressure to read them! But I just can't in this case. |
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I love Martha Grimes Richard Jury and Melrose Plant books, though. I was rather taken aback when I found out that she was American. They are quite whimsical in a way, but with good mysteries, a wide cast of interesting and consistent characters, and a few quite dark moments. Reminiscent of Sayers and Allingham, but set in the 60's on IIRC. Helen |
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