Created by Jo NesbøScreenplay by Matt Charman and Roberto Bentivegna "Sometimes you use a carrot. Sometimes you use a stick. Sometimes you just lie your ass off." Sorry, but the 2024 Amazon Original Killer Heat is about as generic as its title. Even more disappointing? Its lead is Joseph Gordon-Levitt, an actor whose Shamus Game … Continue reading Nick Bali (Killer Heat)
Tag: Ex-NYPD
Ed Runyon
Created by Steve Goble "My name is Ed Runyon, and I'm a private investigator. I used to be a cop." -- Go Find Daddy When we first meet him in City Problems (2021), country boy turned big city cop ED RUNYON has parted ways with the NYPD, haunted by the missing children he never found, … Continue reading Ed Runyon
Doak Miller
Created by Lawrence Block (1938--) The cover of Lawrence Block's The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes (2015) boasts the prominent (and seriously retro-looking) Hard Case Crime logo and a naked babe with the obligatory gun and come-hither look. Even the title suggests we may be time-traveling back to the heady days of the original … Continue reading Doak Miller
Archie Cain
Created by Jack Ricardo Out of the closet and out of a job, what's a poor ex-cop to do? New York City police officer ARCHIE CAIN finds himself in just that predicament in The Night G.A.A. Died, a 1992 novel that takes a hard and unapologetic look at the rise of the gay lib movement … Continue reading Archie Cain
John Corey
Created by Nelson DeMille Pseudonyms include Jack Cannon, Kurt Ladner, Ellen Kay and Brad Matthews (1943--) Spy or eye? JOHN COREY is not, strictly speaking, a private eye. But using the same slightly loosened criteria afforded Dave Robicheaux and a few others on this site, he deserves consideration here by virtue of the wiseass, irreverent, … Continue reading John Corey
Smokey Annicelli
Created by Ralph Pezzullo Another POD eye, back when that was the way for self-publishers to go. And so, in 2003, Ralph Pezzullo we were given Eve Missing. Grit was promised. It featured a disgraced, washed-up NYPD cop, TONY "SMOKEY" ANNICELLI. He was a man with a troubled past and a not-so-great present, who was hired … Continue reading Smokey Annicelli