The (not so) sympathetic curmudgeon Dave Wakeland is handing a righteous ass-kicking to idealists.
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The (not so) sympathetic curmudgeon Dave Wakeland is handing a righteous ass-kicking to idealists.
Sam Wiebe is an old school delicacy. He’ll make you work for your pleasure, but it’ll be worth it.
One of the best, most non-adversarial novel I’ve read about conservative values.
It’s quite unsettling for a fictional antihero to lead a normal life outside of the case he’s working.
McGee takes a psychological step forward is what is possibly the darkest novel in the series.
The most skippable Travis McGee novel I’ve read, so far. Well, the only one.
Don’t be alarmed. Scudder is not doing a John McClane. This is more of an understated bow as he’s walking into the sunset.
Ed McBain was the master of throwaway thrills and The Mugger doesn’t disappoint.
The best Travis McGee novel since the original, if you ask me. It treads a lot of new ground.
Ross MacDonald was undeniably talented, but was he really a mystery novelist?
In the glory years of world-weary private detectives, there was this dude writing about a bunch of cops.
The fourth Travis McGee novel is somewhat of a curve ball. It’s one of these books you need to be already into the character to appreciate.
The Cool & Lam mysteries aren’t exactly elating, but they’re a reliable form of entertainment.
Erle Stanley Gardner was once the best-selling American author. Why have we forgotten all about him?
The third novel in the Richard Dean Buckner series is quite the tonal shift from its predecessors, but it’s great for that it is.
Quite the tonal shift for C.S DeWildt with Suburban Dick, but the heir apparent to Jim Thompson still has it.
A detective novel about violence against women, which incidentally makes a couple good points.
