Do you like Harry Whittington? If you like Jim Thompson, I think you'll like Whittington. The Black Lizard books are good and cheap, although you should avoid Ticket to Hell, which is about a guy driving around the desert in a Porsch, being a hero.
If you haven't, you should read Joel Townsely Rogers' The Red Right Hand! Creepy backwoods stuff, good on atmosphere. Kind of like reading Shirley Jackson with a locked room plot sewn in.
And P.M. Hubbard! He's great!
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
And Elizabeth Sanxay Holding is good. She's basically the grandma of psychological suspense.
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 00:04 (ten years ago) link
thanks for all of these recommendations br*ce!!! whittington is intriguing, as he;s someone i've heard mentioned here and there but i have not read. quick google suggests he wrote over 150 novels and at one point averaging 7 per year! that's a lot of writing.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 00:09 (ten years ago) link
also tbh driving around the desert in a porsche being a hero sounds cool.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 00:11 (ten years ago) link
Anyone want to recommend me some good short fiction from this genre?
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 2 February 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
(like, specific stories, I mean. things from non-mystery writers incorporating elements of the detective/crime genre into a particular piece of short fiction welcome as well.)
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 2 February 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
My first Richard Price, Lush Life! Gotta read Clockers and prob all his.Some good stuff here:Crime Fiction, S/D
― dow, Friday, 2 February 2018 23:40 (six years ago) link
Tana French has a new book out today, The Searcher. Every time she publishes something I rush to read it on the first day, get all the way through it, think, "Hmm, not sure if I liked that," and then immediately start looking forward to her next book.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 03:04 (three years ago) link
Halfway through The Searcher and I know it’s the hinge in the story where it’s obvious lives are about to start getting ruined but I don’t know whose, yet.Anyway Dublin Murder Squad, ranked:Faithful PlaceThe Secret PlaceThe LikenessThe TrespasserIn the WoodsBroken Harbour
― Canon in Deez (silby), Sunday, 24 January 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
Oh I guess the other crime fiction thread is the more active one, pretend I posted there #onethread
― Canon in Deez (silby), Sunday, 24 January 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
i just read the searcher and enjoyed it more than her last couple. it's a lot more straightforward, which might not be for everyone, but it seemed like she was trying something different and it worked for me.
― na (NA), Monday, 25 January 2021 14:39 (three years ago) link