Crime fiction that I am reading and you should too
Discover must-read crime fiction curated by a devoted reader. From James Ellroy's American Tabloid to Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series and Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress, explore gripping noir, thrillers, and detective novels worth adding to your shelf.
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American Tabloid
by James Ellroy
The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . . Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . . Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty . . . Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . . James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.
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Devil in a Blue Dress
by Walter Mosley
The hero is Easy Rawlins just out of job at a defense plant takes on some detective work from a silkily menacing white gangster, Dewitt Albright. The assignment: find the whereabouts of the blonde femme fatale Daphne Monet, a singer known to frequent black jazz joints not usually hospitable to white patrons.
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The Hanging Garden
by Ian Rankin
Inspector John Rebus of the Edinburgh police hunts for a World War II criminal, a Nazi officer who massacred an entire village in France. At the same time he has to bust a ring which is importing East European prostitutes.
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Knots and Crosses
by Ian Rankin
Detective Sergeant John Rebus must solve the case of the "Edinburgh Strangler" before the killer strikes again.
