What are some of your favorite books that are set in Southern California? We have a few Robert Crais and Michael Connelly. What else other than Chandler era writers?
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Dana King: Twenty Questions
Gerald So: Concrete Angel chat
MYSTERY PEOPLE (Book People) Scott Montgomery Review
Bill Crider: Being a Late Bloomer
George Kelley: Patti Abbott's Bookshelves
J. Kingston Pierce: "Mommie Direst" (a reference to the character in Concrete Angel)
Ron Earl Phillips: Patti Abbott and Rob Hart: A Conversation
Ed Gorman: Pro-File
Women of Mystery: Setting
Elizabeth Spann Craig: Working My Way Toward the Novel
Charlie Stella's post and review
Joe Barone (review)
Criminal Element (Edward Grainger) (review)
Sergio Angelini (post)
Randy Johnson (review)
Todd Mason interview)
R & R with B.V. Lawson
Seana Graham (review)
Bill Crider (review)
Five Favorite Novels about Mothers and Daughters.(CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE)
Scott Parker (DO SOME DAMAGE)
Megan Abbott interview on THE LIFE SENTENCE
Debbie Diesen's MICHIGANDER MONDAY. (interview)
Marshall Zeringue's Page 69 test
Interview with Prashant Trikannad
My Book, The Movie
Writers Read
Evan Lewis' Blog-(Davy Crockett's Almanac) review
Martin Edwards-guest blog
Behind the Book, CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE, Writing Dark
Interview with Scott Montgomery, MYSTERY PEOPLE at BOOK PEOPLE in Austin
Tip The Wink (Rick Robinson) review
TracyK review (Bitter Tea and Mystery)
Bernadette (Reactions to Reading)
Pulp Hack Confessions
I SEE LIGHTNING FALL review
Kevin Tipple review
Barry Ergang review
Dead End Follies review
THE BLUE HOUSE review
Mathew Paust
About Me
Patricia Abbott is the author of more than 125 stories that have appeared online, in print journals and in various anthologies. She is the author of two print novels CONCRETE ANGEL (2015) and SHOT IN DETROIT (2016)(Polis Books). CONCRETE ANGEL was nominated for an Anthony and Macavity Award in 2016. SHOT IN DETROIT was nominated for an Edgar Award and an Anthony Award in 2017. A collection of her stories I BRING SORROW AND OTHER STORIES OF TRANSGRESSION will appear in 2018.
She also authored two ebooks, MONKEY JUSTICE and HOME INVASION and co-edited DISCOUNT NOIR. She won a Derringer award for her story "My Hero." She lives outside Detroit.
She also authored two ebooks, MONKEY JUSTICE and HOME INVASION and co-edited DISCOUNT NOIR. She won a Derringer award for her story "My Hero." She lives outside Detroit.
Patricia (Patti) Abbott
SHOT IN DETROIT
Edgar Nominee 2017, Anthony nominee 2017
CONCRETE ANGEL
Polis Books, 2015-nominated for the Anthony and Macavity Awards
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pattinaseabbott@gmail.com
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Crimespree Magazine.Six Novels Set in Detroit
The Rap Sheet, Bringing the Dead to Life
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Litreactor-review
Do Some Damage-Scott Parker-review
Temporary Knuckline-Charlie Stella essay and review
Razored Zen-Essay on difficult women
Bill Crider's Pop Culture. Essay on writing the second novel
Bolo Books, essay
Graham Wynd, essay on whether I write genre
Katomic Energy, essay
Matt Paust, review
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Review, review
Prashant Trikannad, interview
Paul Brazil, essay on photography
Joe Barone, review
TracyK, review
Seana Graham review
Reactions to Reading review
Mystery People, Scott Montgomery review
The Rap Sheet, Bringing the Dead to Life
Kirkus Review, Summer Crime Fiction
Portand Book Review, Essay
OBAT-Dana King-interview
Litreactor-review
Do Some Damage-Scott Parker-review
Temporary Knuckline-Charlie Stella essay and review
Razored Zen-Essay on difficult women
Bill Crider's Pop Culture. Essay on writing the second novel
Bolo Books, essay
Graham Wynd, essay on whether I write genre
Katomic Energy, essay
Matt Paust, review
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Review, review
Prashant Trikannad, interview
Paul Brazil, essay on photography
Joe Barone, review
TracyK, review
Seana Graham review
Reactions to Reading review
Mystery People, Scott Montgomery review
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http://www.mysteryscenemag.com/26-reviews/books/5202-concrete-angel
Kirkus Reviews
Dana King: Twenty Questions
Gerald So: Concrete Angel chat
MYSTERY PEOPLE (Book People) Scott Montgomery Review
Bill Crider: Being a Late Bloomer
George Kelley: Patti Abbott's Bookshelves
J. Kingston Pierce: "Mommie Direst" (a reference to the character in Concrete Angel)
Ron Earl Phillips: Patti Abbott and Rob Hart: A Conversation
Ed Gorman: Pro-File
Women of Mystery: Setting
Elizabeth Spann Craig: Working My Way Toward the Novel
Charlie Stella's post and review
Joe Barone (review)
Criminal Element (Edward Grainger) (review)
Sergio Angelini (post)
Randy Johnson (review)
Todd Mason interview)
R & R with B.V. Lawson
Seana Graham (review)
Bill Crider (review)
Five Favorite Novels about Mothers and Daughters.(CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE)
Scott Parker (DO SOME DAMAGE)
Megan Abbott interview on THE LIFE SENTENCE
Debbie Diesen's MICHIGANDER MONDAY. (interview)
Marshall Zeringue's Page 69 test
Interview with Prashant Trikannad
My Book, The Movie
Writers Read
Evan Lewis' Blog-(Davy Crockett's Almanac) review
Martin Edwards-guest blog
Behind the Book, CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE, Writing Dark
Interview with Scott Montgomery, MYSTERY PEOPLE at BOOK PEOPLE in Austin
Tip The Wink (Rick Robinson) review
TracyK review (Bitter Tea and Mystery)
Bernadette (Reactions to Reading)
Pulp Hack Confessions
I SEE LIGHTNING FALL review
Kevin Tipple review
Barry Ergang review
Dead End Follies review
THE BLUE HOUSE review
Mathew Paust
14 comments:
Don Winslow, certainly. Savages comes to mind, but I think I like Dawn Patrol even more. I'm also a big fan of Johnny Shaw's Dove Season.
T. Jefferson Parker - books like The Fallen and L. A. Outlaws among others.
Jeff M.
Kem Nunn comes to mind: Tapping the Source (Huntington Beach), Unassigned Territory (partly in Pomona), Pomona Queen, The Dogs of Winter (NoCal I think), Tijuana Straits (Cali/TJ border).
Cutter & Bone by Newton Thornburg is set in San Diego.I don't remember specifically where his To Die in California is set. Dreamland is Hollywood.
Don Winslow of course.
Can't pass up a chance to mention
Richard Prather's Shell Scott series.
(the Captcha phrase for this post could be a SoCal novel itself: 7 diegimp)
From Riverside, California, Susan Straight. Also Walter Mosley.
Ron Goulart crime fiction set there. Though he's a Bay Area native. And Loren Estleman has been known to leave Detroit as well. Robert Bloch with THE STAR STALKER and much short fiction. Nathaniel West. Horace McCoy with THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? at very least.
Aren't Koontz's books set in southern Cal mostly? I remember a lot of his descriptions of the locals.
Yes, I preferred DAWN PATROL too. Been meaning to read Parker for years. Read CUTTER AND BONE a million years ago. And the film was great too.
Susan Straight and Mosley I have read some but more are on my shelves. Forgot both.
Nathaniel West-also read but will repeat DAY OF THE LOCUST. McCoy is underead too.
Have not read Prather at all.
Didion and Dunne-have read most of their work.
Haven't read Koontz either.
Does Zorro count?
T. Jefferson Parker's first one, Laguna Heat. There are others, but they just don't come to mind.
Series books: T. Jefferson Parker but his Deputy Hood series is much better than Fallen.
Winslow last surfer novel and Parker's Fallen have some neat insights into corruption and graft in San Diego.
I started reading most of an L.A. based series but cannot remember the author's dang name.
Connelly's Lincoln Lawyer series.
James Ellroy.
One-offs:
Abbott Jr.'s Die A Little
Lee Goldberg's The Walk and Man With the Iron On Badge (or whatever new title he gave it).
Will Beall's L.A. Rex was outstanding.
Christa Faust's Money Shot
That Parker one looks like a good bet. And LA REX
L.A. Rex came out several years ago. I emailed Beall in July, 2008 asking if he had another novel coming out and he had nothing due. I had periodically checked online for follow-up books but found nothing but notices about TV or film scripting.
Just now I did a search for Beall and, lo and behold, he scripted the new flick Gangster Squad.
I have enjoyed Terrill Lankford's novels about Hollywood, John Morgan Wilson's series featuring gay LA journalist Benjamin Justice who won and lost a Pulitzer Prize, Bill Moody's series about California jaze pianist Evan Horne who solves crimes related to real jazz musicians and Edward Wright's first three books set in LA in the late 1940s. His main character is B movie cowboy John Ray Horn who now works for the guy who was his Indian sidekick. Noir movie expert Eddie Muller wrote two excellent mysteries set in San Francisco that revolve around boxing writer Billy Nichols. Dante Mancuso is a former San Francisco cop turned PI in a series written by Domenic Stansberry. All are worth checking out.
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