5/28/2023 0 Comments The Bottoms by Joe R. LansdaleThis new adventure sees her perfecting the art of multitasking: protecting a lesbian activist from a stalker, dealing with friends' and relatives' crumbling marriages and falling back into bed with her own ex, despite his mob connections. With whiplash action and sparkling repartee, this is Leonard at his coolest and best for years: the undoubted champion of American hardboiled prose.īoston private eye Sunny Randall makes her second appearance in Robert B Parker's Perish Twice (John Murray, £16.99). However, the Detroit mafia stands in their way. They soon hit it off in a big way (Terry is not that priestly) and also discover a shared talent for making money. Father Terry Dunn returns home to Detroit from Rwandan atrocities and meets up with Debbie Dewe, an ex-con working in stand-up comedy. With Pagan Babies (Viking, £16.99), his 36th novel, he is on majestic form, juggling his deceptively colloquial style with darker-than-usual subject matter the result is a winner by knockout. When it comes to fighting prose, no one approaches the venerable Elmore Leonard. The struggle for the reader's hard-earned cash sees Evanovich, Muller and Walters in the pink corner versus Leonard, Parker, Lansdale and Friedman in the blue corner. A utumn always brings out the big editorial guns, and on the criminal front it's a veritable battle of the heavyweights.
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