Looking for a few good "detective/murder mystery" titles

[poopster]

Remember a retired LA detective putting out some good reads.

Thanks in advance.

nopoop

[weazel]

By W.E.B. GRIFFEN, grabbed it from the local library this week, it's not bad.

I read Dale Browns "Storming Heaven" last week, it made me wonder if Bin Laden or one of his fanatics read it and used the books plot for the 9/11 attacks.

[Creamo]

John Sandford Prey Books

Very fast easy reading with lotsa popsicle, death, and murder/suspence. Not to mention strangely enough the detective is a game developer as a side business.

Oh and Mark Furmans "Murder in Brentwood" was really good and completely diffrent.

[funkedup]

I read books by a guy called Ross MacDonald or Ross McDonald for a class in college that were great.  Private detective "film noir" type stuff.
Michael Connelly and Tony Hillerman are probably my favorites in the airport bookstore paperback fiction department.

[poopster]

Thanks guys I'll search them out. Feel the need to read

Went to Mystery.com and took a look at some award winners, kinda cool you can read excerpts. Nice site but TONS of popups

Ordered up:
Inner City Blues by Paula L. Woods

Heartwood by James Lee Burke

L. A. Requiem by Rober Crais ( used ) had to, all kinds of awards

I'll let you know if they deserve the awards

nopoop

[airspro]

W.E.B. GRIFFEN is pretty good read . I liike his Brotherhood of War , and The Corps too .

[Thrawn]

Anything by Minette Walters.  Truely fantastic books.

[Leslie]

If you haven't already, read the Alfred Hitchcock Presents collection of short stories.  These are great for bedtime reading.



Les

[Leslie]

Edgar Allen Poe is considered to be one of the first American detective mystery writers.  Try:

Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Gold Bug

Missive in a Bottle

The Tell-Tale Heart

...........among others.

The visual imagery in a lot of his other work is surrealistic and beautiful, especially the descriptions of the landscape in "The Lost Cottage" and "City by the Sea."

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Darn it, was looking for my anthology, but can't find it right now.  May have to go out and buy another one.  Oh well..................



Les