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posted 20-04-2008 19:17
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I've not found a really good crime book in ages. So here's a new thread.
Yesterday I read Close Enough to Kill by Beverly Barton. It was OK in that I read it all, but it was a bit poor. I knew who the killer was the moment he was introduced. I think the genre can do better.
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posted 21-04-2008 08:39
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Have you read any Pelecanos?
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posted 21-04-2008 10:18
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Yes, of course, he is very good.
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posted 21-04-2008 11:05
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The book review on Radio 4 did a roundup on the latest crime-fiction the other week, and the best was by C.J. Sansom.
Who I've never heard of before, but he's written this crime series about a hunchbacked detective lawyer in Tudor England. It's meant to be really good?
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posted 21-04-2008 11:24
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Yeah, the Matthew Shardlake series. They are good, yeah, very good. I find it odd though that they are so massively hyped and popular, because they're really not so much better as such than say Susanna Gregory's Matthew Bartholomew series, or Sylvian Hamilton (both of whom are great) or Edward Marston, or Candace Robb, etc.
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posted 21-04-2008 12:44
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While I praised historically-based crime fiction on the old thread (Alan Furst, Robert Wilson, erm, forgotten others again) I can't take medieval crime fiction, or anything in tights etc seriously.
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posted 21-04-2008 14:06
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Re-read all the Chandler books.
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posted 21-04-2008 14:49
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Not an original choice but damn good nevertheless: Death Comes for the Fat Man is well up to Reginald Hill's usual standard, perhaps even a bit better than the last D & P.
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posted 21-04-2008 14:52
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Is that the one that was published here as The Death of Dalziel? It was good, yeah.
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posted 21-04-2008 15:09
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Must be, it's the most recent I think.
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posted 21-04-2008 15:10
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I finally got around to reading The Maltese Falcon the other week, and it's so much better than I expected it to be. I don't know why, but I'd just assumed it was a poor imitation of Raymond Chandler.
But it's ace isn't it? And Sam Spade is one of the great bastards in literature.
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posted 21-04-2008 15:34
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AdC there's a new one out, A Cure for all Diseases..
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posted 21-04-2008 15:38
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Ah. It'll probably be a year or so before it makes it over here, if it's in PB I'll try to pick it when I'm over next month. Perfect airplane reading.
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posted 21-04-2008 15:55
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It was new in HB in March, but maybe they've done one of those airport PBs...
I was reading the Amazon reviews. Seems a lot of people didn't like this one being as how it's one of his more experimental ones. I expect they're just eebing silly.
There's also going to be a new Joe Sixsmith in June, which is great news.
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posted 21-04-2008 18:37
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Oh good. I thought he'd given those up.
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