Style/genre: Procedural, Female protagonist
If you like this, try…Michael Connelly, P.D. James, Ian Rankin, Patricia Cornwell, Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton
Rating: 4 out of 5 fingerprints
“Eve stepped out of the shower and into the drying tube…”
This futuristic series (set in the middle of the 22nd century) centers around a bad-assed NYPD cop who nabs murderers as often as some women shop.* (more…)
Style/genre: Hard-boiled
If you like this try…Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Dashiell Hammett
Rating:4 out of 5 fingerprints
” ‘Easy Rawlins!’ ” someone called. I turned to see Quinten Naylor twist the handle of my front gate…
Easy Rawlins, the WWII vet cum detective of Watts’ mean streets, is now married and a father in 1956 Los Angeles…and ready for the straight and narrow. His wife Regina, his infant daughter Edna and his adopted son, Jesus, now occupy his time. Detective Quentin Naylor, however, needs Easy’s help. A serial killer is targeting African-American women from seedy neighborhoods. Easy refuses but soon his best friend Mouse Alexander is the chief suspect. Easy searches for the real killer among his former haunts . Easy’s wife , who tries unsuccessfully to learn about Easy’s past, grows ever more distant. When a white woman is unexpectedly killed, the police investigation goes into overdrive.
The white woman, a stripper called “The White Butterfly”, is known to the outside world as a fresh-faced UCLA student whose father is an influential prosecutor. Easy must peel away the layers of her false identity to find her connection to the other three women. But time is running out–especially when a series of similar murders occurs in another city.
Can Easy keep his family together, keep Mouse out of jail, and find the real killer?
“A sudden banging on the front door sent a chill down my neck and into my chest…”
In this second outing in the Fearless Jones series, quiet African-American bookstore owner Paris Minton once again finds himself pulled into violent events beyond his control in 1950s Watts by his best friend, “Fearless” Jones. (more…)
Fearless Jones (book cover)
Style/genre: Hard-boiled
If you like this try…Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Dashiell Hammett
Rating:4 out of 5 fingerprints
“My used-book store had been open for just about a month when the police showed up….”
Paris Minton is an African-American bookstore owner in 1950s Los Angeles who prefers reading his wares to using his fists. When the lovely Elana Love wiggles into his store one day, (more…)
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