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Tag Archives: detective fiction
Loren D. Estleman’s City Walls
Loren D. Estleman’s City Walls is the 31st in the Amos Walker Mystery series. With a long running crime series and an old hand at writing, the plot is far more new than the detective. This book finds the Michigan … Continue reading
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Tagged detective fiction, hard boiled, mystery
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Jodi Taylor’s Doing Time (The Time Police #1)
The invention of time travel led to the Time Wars, which led to the Time Police, who solve problems by ruthless, thorough, application of force. Stop the illegal time travelers, bring home for prosecution any who are unaccountably still alive, … Continue reading
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Tagged detective fiction, speculative fiction, time travel
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James Lee Burke’s The Tin Roof Blowdown
James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux novels have been a source of entertainment and excitement to me for many years. Burke has been particularly prolific in recent years (he even created a new series featuring Billy Bob Holland) and The Tin … Continue reading
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Tagged detective fiction, post-Katrina New Orleans
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James Lee Burke’s Pegasus Descending
James Lee Burke lives in two places, and he writes about them both. He has a home in Montana (where he has set his Billy Bob Holland series) and another in New Iberia, Louisiana. Pegasus Descending is the latest in … Continue reading
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Tagged detective fiction, New Orleans
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James Lee Burke’s Purple Cane Road
Dave Robicheaux is a middle-aged guy, trying to get along. Still haunted by his experiences in Viet Nam, troubled by his relationship with his long-dead parents, he is now a homicide detective in New Iberia Parish in Louisiana. His second … Continue reading
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Tagged detective fiction, New Orleans
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Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele’s The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone
Flesh and Bone is a prequel to The Surrogates, taking the story back fifteen years to the anti-surrogate riots of 2039. The incident that sparks the crisis is the beating death of a derelict by three teenagers who are using … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, detective fiction, satire, science fiction
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Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele’s The Surrogates
Robert Venditti’s The Surrogates, drawn by Brett Weldele, is right up among the top graphic works I’ve run across recently. Set in a near-future megalopolis, it’s a fast-moving crime drama with a couple of unique twists. The central motivator in … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, detective fiction
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Steven Brust’s Jhegaala
One reaches a point in any fantasy series where one wonders if the author has anything left to say. Too many of them don’t and the series peters out into another ongoing and often lame effort to feed the fans. … Continue reading
Steven Brust’s Iorich
I’ve noted before how Steven Brust manages to keep an ongoing series alive by the simple expedient of presenting the protagonist with new challenges in each volume. In Iorich, the latest installment of The Taltos Cycle, he’s presented Vlad Taltos … Continue reading
Glen Cook’s A Matter of Time
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