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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Hardboiled Detective Fiction: I take my brandy any way
 
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Mars4523
Feb 17, 2014

blakout posted:

I'm almost done with Gone Baby Gone by Dennis LeHaye and its a great great bit of detective fiction. Kinsey and Genaro are a great partnership and the way the case gets under everyone's skin like a creeping sort of cancer is very well done. It is pretty dark though.
That's book 4 out of a book 6 series. It starts out very strong but I think that the last one, Moonlight Mile is noticeably weaker than the rest (plot ends in anticlimax and Angie Gennaro is missing for large parts of the book). I have to say that the first three are really excellent though. They are A Drink Before the War, Darkness Take My Hand and Sacred.

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Mars4523
Feb 17, 2014

OilSlick posted:

I've been meaning to read Gone Baby Gone. I understand it's the fourth book in a series about a pair of private investigators. Do I need to read the first 3? Are they any good?
The first three are very good (and arguably the stronger half of the series).

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Mars4523
Feb 17, 2014

blakout posted:

The first one is 90s as all hell that's either a good or bad thing depending on your perspective.
Yeah, it's really goddamn 90s (but then, it was written in the 90s).

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Mars4523
Feb 17, 2014

Pink Robot Army posted:

Just finished Bankok 8 by John Burdett and it really kind of blew me away. Definitely has a modern hardboiled feel (instead of existential anti-hero, it's got an outsider buddhist), really filled me with that same sense of mystery and dread. Just picked up A Drink Before the War, so hoping for good things from that.
The first few books were pretty good, but the last one went off the rails in a big way.

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