[This coming weekend marks the 100th birthday of the great crime novelist Elmore Leonard. So this week I’ll AmericanStudy a handful of phenomenal crime and mystery writers, leading up a weekend post on Elmore himself!]
This is
going to be one of my link-tastic posts, as I’ve already written about the
great Attica Locke many times in this space but had to include her in this week’s
series as well. So check out:
This
post on why her first two mystery novels grabbed me like they did;
This
post featuring her 2017 novel Bluebird, Bluebird;
This
post on Locke as a worthy successor to the great Walter Mosley;
And this
post on her 2019 novel Heaven, My Home.
I haven’t
had a chance yet to check out Locke’s latest book Guide
Me Home (2024), the third novel in her Highway 59 series about Texas
Ranger Darren Mathews. But I hope all those prior posts reflect just how highly
I think of this contemporary crime novelist, who also happens to be one of our
most thoughtful and talented 21st writers.
Next crime
fiction tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What
do you think? Crime or mystery novelists you’d share?
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