By Peter A. Parmantie Featuring Joseph Angello He thrust open my office door as though he expected it would stick, and stood aside. In paraded two women, one a teen. The three had dressed carefully, in studied artificiality. Atop the man, perched a garishly unobtrusive hairpiece. Fingernails manicured. Tanned and fit with the tiniest hint … Continue reading “A Family Affair”
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Skylar Drake
Created by Janet Elizabeth Lynn & Will Zeilinger SoCal in the mid-1950s, and everyone’s having fun fun fun, even if nobody’s even heard of The Beach Boys. Yet. It’s not all fun, fun, fun, though, and that's what keeps former LAPD detective and Korean war vet SKYLAR DRAKE going. When we first meet him, in Slivers of … Continue reading Skylar Drake
Ray Wyatt
Created by Rick Mofina A new thriller by Mofina is always good news, but a new trilogy? Sign me up. RAY WYATT is a seasoned reporter, one of the go-to guys for the First Press Alliance, a wire service based in Manhattan that covers the world, which is why Ray seems to always have his … Continue reading Ray Wyatt
Jake Lomax
Created by Michael Allegretto (1944--) The Shamus-winning Death on the Rocks (1987) introduced former Denver cop JACOB "JAKE" LOMAX who becomes a private eye after his wife is brutally murdered. Looking for a cynical, wise-cracking hero to follow? Look no further... This is yet another overlooked gem of a series from the late eighties and … Continue reading Jake Lomax
John Francis Cuddy
Created by Jeremiah Healy (1948-2014) Private investigator JOHN FRANCIS CUDDY is based in Boston and, at least in the early novels, seemed to have been based quite clearly on that 1980's Boston success story Spenser. He grew up in the Irish-American neighborhood of South Boston, educated by the Jesuits at Holy Cross College, and served in … Continue reading John Francis Cuddy
Peter Boone
Created by William Jaspersohn (1947--) Ex-Red Sox pitcher, avid fly fisherman and widower, PETER BOONE is a private eye who works the back roads and small villages of his home state of Vermont. When his wife was killed in a convenience store robbery and the case bungled by the cops, Boone quit baseball and brought … Continue reading Peter Boone
Dan Roman
Created by Edward Mathis (1927-1988) "Mathis was the real thing--a fine writer with a slant and style all his own. He brought us a dusty tapped-out Texas I'd never encountered before. If he reminded me of anybody it was the proletariat novelists of the Forties and Fifties such as Harvey Swados and Clancy Sigal." -- … Continue reading Dan Roman
Garrison Gage
Created by Jack Nolte Pseudonym of Scott William Carter Beat up, knocked down and pretty much totally physically and emotionally shredded after the murder of his wife, New York private eye GARRISON GAGE leaves it all behind, and settles in the small coastal town of Barnacle Bluffs, Oregon, intent on nothing more than recuperating from … Continue reading Garrison Gage