Year: 2010
Favorite Series – Kenzie & Gennaro
In honor of the opening of Shutter Island (which from the trailers looks great) today based on the book by Dennis Lehane. I thought I’d write something about his series featuring Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Before he turned to stand-alones after the success of Mystic River, Dennis Lehane wrote…
Belated Blues Wednesday – Corey Stevens
Corey Stevens – Myth Live and Blue Drops of Rain
A Whisper to the Living (Porfiry Rostnikov #16) – Stuart Kaminsky (Book 6 – 2010)
Parnell Hall – Woodstock Generation
Parnell Hall writes one of my favorite all-time series starring “Stanley Hastings, the world’s most reluctant private eye, is a failed actor/writer, who chases ambulances for a negligence lawyer in between gigs, which is most of the time” – (from ParnelHall.com). the books are just downright fun reads and a…
Blues Wednesday – Walter Trout
A Night of Blues leads to a baker’s dozen playlist with Marc Benno, Sonny Terry and Walter Trout
Abandoned – Cody McFadyen
James Lee Burke
In 1987, after having only one book published in fifteen years, James Lee Burke, at the suggestion of a friend, turned to writing crime fiction. In The Neon Rain, Burke introduced the world to a Cajun recovering alcoholic police detective named Dave Robicheaux and launched his career as a bestselling…