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I am really hooked on the old hard-boiled authors, noir and neo-noir, and the more hard-boiled police procedurals. After several years of reading, I discovered that I had compiled some interesting names and titles, and while they were not all inclusive, they showed a certain kind of taste and interest that I would like to share with other readers. They are strictly writers that I like the most and books that were more than just a good beach or airplane read. They might save some time for a few readers. I know I felt overwhelmed when I began to seriously search for the kinds of writers I liked to read because so many recommendations turned out to be a little or a great deal on the "cozy" side. I think much crime writing deserves serious consideration as an important literary genre. I hope that readers will take my lists in the spirit in which they are intended, a compilation that gave me a lot of pleasure and I hope will interest other lovers of the crime genre. Titles from your favorite list are welcome, but please bear in mind that if the authors are fairly well known I have already tried their books and did not include them because of the subjectivity of my tastes. I have divided the titles into four divisions: Police Procedurals, Detectives Professional and Amateur, Capers, Hit Men and Criminals and the older, classic Noir and Hardboiled Authors. Comments are welcome.
Policiers
Detective/Constable/Inspector
Stephen Booth Black Dog
Ben Cooper Novels
Marshall Browne The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders
Inspector Anders Novels
Ken Bruen Calibre
Sergeant Brant Novels
Jack Taylor ex-guard Novels
James Lee Burke Black Cherry Blues
Dave Robicheaux Novels
Andrea Camilleri The Shape of Water
Inspector Montalbano Novels
Dave Case Out of Cabrini
Stacy Macbeth of the 18th District Novels
James Church The Corpse in the Koryo
Inspector O Novels
Michael Connelly The Concrete Blonde
Harry Bosch Novels
Michael Dibdin Cosi Fan Tutti
Investigator Aurelio Zen Novels
Garry Disher The Dragon Man
Inspector Hal Challis Novels
Brian Freeman Immoral
Detective Jonathan Stride Novels
Luiz Alfredo Garcia- Roza December Heat
Inspector Espinosa Novels
John Harvey Lonely Hearts
Homicide Cop Charlie Resnick Novels
Reginald Hill On Beulah Height
Detectives Dalziel and Pascoe Novels
Chester Himes The Big Gold Dream
Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Novels
Jean Claude Izzo Total Chaos
Beat Cop Fabio Montale Marseilles Trilogy Novels
Bill James Roses, Roses
Det. Harpur and Iles Novels
J. Robert Janes Carousel
Inspectors St.-Cyr and Kohler Novels
Gene Kerrigan Midnight Choir
Jack Kerley The Death Collectors
Det. Ryder and Nautilus Novels
Simon Kernick The Business of Dying
Det. Dennis Milne Novels
Donna Leon Acqua Alta
Commissario Guido Brunetti Series
Martin Limon Jade Lady Burning
Army Investigators Sueno and Bascom Novels
Peter Lovesey Diamond Dust
Det. Superintendent Peter Diamond Novels
Barry Maitland The Chalon Heads
Inspectors Kathy and Brock Novels
Henning Mankell One Step Behind
Detective Kurt Wallender Novels
Archer Mayor Occam’s Razor
Police Lt. Joe Gunther Novels
Stuart MacBride Cold Granite
Det. Sergeant Logan MacRae Novels
Ed McBain Cop Hater
87th Precinct Novels
Martin O’Brien Jacquot and the Waterman
Chief Insp. Daniel Jacquot Novels
Nick Oldham Psycho Alley
DCI Henry Christie Novels
Gerald Petievich To Live and Die in L.A.
FBI and Treasury Agent Novels
Ian Rankin The Resurrection Men
Inspector John Rebus Novels
Ruth Rendell Wolf to the Slaughter
Chief Insp. Reginald Wexford Novels
Peter Robinson Strange Affair
Insp. Alan Banks Novels
Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo The Locked Room
Police Superintendent Martin Beck Novels
Martin Cruz-Smith Gorky Park
Senior Invest. Arkady Remko Novels
Stephen Solomita A Twist of the Knife
Stanley Moodrow Novels
Olen Steinhauer Liberation Movements
Various Police Investigators in an unnamed Eastern Europen Counry Novels
Charles Todd A Test of Wills
Inspec. Ian Rutledge Novels
Joseph Wambaugh The New Centurions
Police Novels
Qiu Xiaolong When Red Is Black
Inspec. Chen Cao
Private Detectives and Amateur Sleuths--------- ------------
Ace Atkins Cross Road Blues
Nick Travers Novels
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Sean Chercover Big City Bad Blood
Ray Dudgeon Detective
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Lee Child One Shot
Jack Reacher Novels
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Robert Crais The Monkey’s Raincoat
Elvis Mitchell Novels
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Loren D. Estleman Every Brilliant Eye
Amos Walker Novels
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Dick Francis Under Orders
Sid Halley Novels
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David Fulmer Chasing the Devil’s Tail
Valentine St.Cyr Novels
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Anthony Gagliano Straits of Fortune
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Sue Grafton Q is for Quarry
Kinsey Millhone Novels
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Joseph Hanson Gravedigger
Dave Brandstetter Novels
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Mick Herron Why We Die
Zoe Boehm Novels
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Harry Hunsicker Still River
Lee Henry Oswald Novels
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James Patrick Hunt Maitland Under Seige
Ex-Cop Maitland Novels
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Daniel Judson The Bone Orchard
Declan “Mac” MacManus Novels
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Philip Kerr Berlin Noir
Bernie Gunther Novels
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Joe R. Landsdale Mucho Mojo
Collins and Pine Novels
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John Lutz Burn
Fred Carver Novels
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Michael Marshall The Straw Men
Crime Novels
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Lev Raphael Hot Rocks
Nick Hoffman Novels
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Jeff Shelby Wicked Break
Noah Braddock Novels
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Dan Simmons Hard Freeze
Joe Kurtz Novels
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Peter Spiegelman Red Cat
John March Novels
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Peter Temple Bad Debts
Jack Irish Novels
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Andrew Vachss Down Here
Burke Novels
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Robert Wilson The Big Killing
Bruce Medway Novels
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Don Winslow Power of the Dog
Crime Novels
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Capers, Hit Men, Criminals
Megan Abbott The Song Is You
Noir Crime Novels
Lawrence Block Hit Man
Keller Novels
Max Allan Collins The Last Quarry
Quarry Novels
J.J.Connolly Layer Cake
Barry Eisler Rain Fall
John Rain Novels
Loren D. Estleman Any Man’s Death
Peter Macklin Novels
Victor Gischler Pistol Poets
Crime Novels
Donald Goines Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp
Crime Novels
Allan Guthrie Two-Way Split
Crime Novels
James Hawes White Merc with Fins
Patricia Highsmith The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tom Ripley Novels
Charlie Huston Caught Stealing
Hank Thompson Trilogy
Lee Irby 7000 Clams
Frank Hearn Novels
Roland S. Jefferson Damaged Goods
Alonzo Crane
Marc LeCard Vinnie’s Head
Elmore Leonard Freaky Deaky
Crime Novels
Ted Lewis Get Carter
Jeff Lindsay Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Dexter Morgan Novels
Adrian McKinty Dead I May Well Be
Michael Forsythe Trilogy
Neil Mcmahon Lone Creek
Giampiero Rigosi Night Bus
James Sallis Drive
Richard Stark (Donald Westlake) Comeback
Parker Novels
Jason Starr Bust (Ken Bruen, Author and Jason Starr, Author)
Duane Swierczynski The Wheelman
Crime Novels
Peter Temple Bad Debts
Jack Irish Novels
Old Noir / Hardboiled
Gil Brewer The Vengeful Virgin
Fredric Brown The Fabulous Clipjoint
Crime Novels
William R. Burnett Little Caesar
Crime Novels
James M. Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice
Crime Novels
Paul Cain Fast One
Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep
Philip Marlowe Novels
James Ellroy L.A. Confidential
The L.A. Quartet
Kenneth Fearing The Big Clock
Steve Fisher I Wake Up Screaming
David Goodis Shoot the Piano Player
Crime Novels
Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon
Crime Novels
Evan Hunter(Ed McBain) Blackboard Jungle
Gerard Kersh Night and the City
Horace McCoy They Shoot Horses Don’t They
Crime Novels
William P. McGivern The Big Heat
Crime Novels
John D. Macdonald The Deep Blue Good-by
Travis McGee Novels
Ross Macdonald The Drowning Pool
Lew Archer Novels
Derek Raymond He Died With His Eyes Open
The Unnamed Narrator Cop in the Factory Novels
Jim Thompson The Killer Inside Me
Crime Novels
Charles Williams A Touch of Death
Crime Novels
Charles Willeford Miami Blues
Crime Novels
Cornell Woolrich The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
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Preetham Grandhi
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Book Synopsis:
The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.
Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury s hospital, searches desperately for the cause of seven-year-old Naya Hastings devastating nightmares. Afraid that she might hurt herself in the midst of a torturous episode, Naya s parents have turned to the bright young doctor as their only hope.
The situations confronting Leia and Peter converge when Naya begins drawing chilling images of murder after being bombarded by the disturbing images in her dreams. Amazingly, her sketches are the only clues to the crime that has panicked Newbury residents. Against her better judgment, Leia explores the clues in Naya s crude drawings, only to set off an alarming chain of events.
In this stunning psychological thriller, innocence gives way to evil, and trust lies forgotten in a web of deceit, fear, and murder.
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