Loren D. Estleman. Forge, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1955-5
Shamus Award–winner Estleman demonstrates that the art of inserting a Philip Marlowe–esque hero into modern times is alive and well in his 21st novel featuring Detroit PI Amos Walker (after 2010's The Left-Handed Dollar). Reuben Crossgrain,...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15.95 (194p) ISBN 978-0-395-41072-1
Hard-bitten private eye Amos Walker (last seen in Sugartown stalks the bleak, wintry streets and the smoke-filled nightclubs of Detroit in his latest, swiftly paced mystery, whose characters include tough, wisecracking women and cheap gangsters....
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-395-41073-8
The eighth Amos Walker novel (Motor City Blue) may not have an especially surprising chief villain, but Estleman is still in the top of the class of private-eye storytellers. Here Walker's client is Richard DeVries, fresh out of prison after a 20-yea
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-395-41071-4
Estleman's Amos Walker is at or near the top of the list of hardboiled private eyes and fans will gobble up these 10 short stories. Dating from 1982 to 1987, these samplings are good indicators of the pleasures in Estleman's longer works ( Motor...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Mysterious Press $21.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-89296-552-6
Three decades of Detroit history provide settings for Estleman's acclaimed Amos Walker mysteries, including Whiskey River. Again conjuring up the Motor City of the 1950s, the author chronicles the second career of ex-journalist Connie Minor, who is...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Forge $20.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-312-85667-0
Page Murdock, the stalwart, peripatetic hero of Estleman's lean and lively western, is fed up with marshaling for a domineering federal judge in the Montana Territory. Aiming to settle down, he buys himself a half interest in a bar in San Sabado,...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Mysterious Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-553-3
Its urban tensions arise from race, not booze, but the Detroit of this fifth volume (after Edsel) in Estleman's ongoing saga of the Motor City is as rife with violence and corruption as the Prohibition-era burg of Whiskey River, which began the...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Mysterious Press $23 (352p) ISBN 978-0-89296-633-2
By rigidly sticking to the form, Estleman has become the reigning king of the traditional, tough-yet-tender style of crime novel. Amos Walker, his Detroit gumshoe who returns in fine style after a seven-year absence (Sweet Women Lie), is a welcome...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Mysterious Press $22.5 (306p) ISBN 978-0-89296-663-9
Mystery fans who think that Estleman's novels about the Detroit-based PI Amos Walker (returned after a seven-year retirement in 1997's Never Street) make him the natural heir of Raymond Chandler will have that conviction confirmed here. Walker's...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Forge $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86360-9
Writing with wit and carefully crafting a chilling suspense plot, Estleman (Journey of the Dead) delivers another spine-tingling crime novel set in Detroit. This time, however, unlike in his Amos Walker novels (Never Street, 1997, etc.), the action...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Mysterious Press $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-89296-706-3
HThe three Shamus Awards Estleman has won for his Amos Walker mysteries (The Hours of the Virgin, etc.) testify to his reputation as the torchbearer of the classic PI yarn. In his 14th novel about the tough-minded Detroit gumshoe, Estleman pays...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Forge $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-86969-4
Colorful western fiction and gritty crime drama merge in this new installment in Estleman's popular series featuring Page Murdock, a cynical 40-year-old deputy U.S. marshal working for tough-as-a-boiled-owl Judge Harlan Blackstone in the Montana...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Mysterious Press $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-89296-683-7
Amos Walker, Detroit PI, revisits the past in the 13th entry in an estimable hard-boiled series (The Witchfinder, etc.). In the echoing, nearly empty galleries of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Walker agrees to accompany a curator on a private...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Mysterious $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-89296-738-4
In Estleman's 15th lively novel to feature Detroit PI Amos Walker (after 2000's A Smile on the Face of a Tiger), Walker is hired by the young widow of a recently deceased multi-millionaire centenarian who wishes to mitigate the sexist...
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Loren D. Estleman. F+W Media/Tyrus, $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4405-4414-9
While this decent collection is not, as billed, the first such by a single author since Conan Doyle’s The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927), Estleman (Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes) does a serviceable job in crafting eight
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Loren D. Estleman. Forge, $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3331-5
An intriguing McGuffin drives Shamus-winner Estleman’s third mystery featuring U.C.L.A. film consultant Valentino (after 2009’s Alone). Word reaches Valentino that a print may exist of Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein’s monster, a role Lugosi rejected,...
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Loren D. Estleman. Forge, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3119-9
Edgar-finalist Estleman (Burning Midnight) presents a nuanced and compelling fictionalized portrait of the best-known gangster of them all, Al Capone. In 1944, J. Edgar Hoover pulls Peter Vasco off a desk job for a special undercover assignment....
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Loren D. Estleman. Forge, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3121-2
In Estleman’s suspenseful, no-frills 23rd Amos Walker novel (after 2012’s Burning Midnight), investment banker Alec Wynn asks the cynical Detroit private detective to find his missing wife, Cecelia, who disappeared, leaving behind a note simply...
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Loren D. Estleman. Forge, $24.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3735-1
Edgar-finalist Estleman’s compelling 24th Amos Walker novel (after 2014’s Don’t Look for Me) finds the hard-bitten Detroit PI in rehab, after overdosing on alcohol and Vicodin. The doctor treating Walker gives him a break by not reporting his...
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Loren Estleman. Tyrus (F + W Media, dist.), $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4405-8844-0
Set in Detroit during WWII, the 10 irresistible crime stories in this collection from Shamus Award–finalist Estleman (Jitterbug) focus on a tactical squad in the Detroit PD known as the Four Horsemen. The squad tackles off-beat cases ranging from a...
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Loren D. Estleman. Tor, $24.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3736-8
A weak plot, which includes a major contrivance, mars Shamus Award–winner Estleman’s 25th Amos Walker novel (after 2014’s You Know Who Killed Me). An Ann Arbor, Mich., couple hire the Detroit PI to find Jerry Marcus, a missing filmmaker they...
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Loren D. Estleman. Forge, $25.99 (240p) ISBN 978-07653-8045-6
Estleman’s fun fourth Valentino mystery (after 2013’s Alive!) finds the UCLA film scholar on the trail of a lost western, Sixgun Sonata, starring the married actors Red Montana and Dixie Day. Southern California’s Red Montana and Dixie Day Museum is
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Loren D. Estleman. Forge, $24.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8046-3
In Estleman’s entertaining fifth Valentino novel (after Shoot), film archivist Valentino uses his extensive knowledge of the minutiae of Hollywood history to help Lt. Ray Padilla of the LAPD track down a bizarrely motivated serial killer. It is...
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Loren D. Estleman. Forge, $25.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8845-2
The odds of three clients showing up at Amos Walker’s bare-bones office on the very same hot summer day are slim, but that’s what happens in Edgar-finalist Estleman’s highly entertaining 26th mystery featuring the Detroit-based private eye (after...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Forge $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0894-8
The conflict at the heart of this intense, powerfully told story is almost Shakespearean: to protect the woman he loves, retired killer Peter Macklin must go back to his old life, knowing that in so doing he risks losing her. Peter and his much...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Forge $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-86970-0
This superbly crafted novel of the American West not only outshines any of Estleman's 12 previous novels (Billy Gashade, etc.) with Forge, it also stands far above considerably weaker efforts currently being cranked out by many who still labor...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Forge $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-87863-4
Peter Macklin is a truly compelling antihero—and not the kind who's secretly saving the world. This is the real thing: a man who kills much too easily and who knows an enormous amount, but not necessarily right from wrong. Macklin (last...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Forge $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0189-5
Estleman (White Desert) adds another absorbing saddle yarn to his more than 40 westerns and crime novels. Set in 1885 in an Old West culture of bad whiskey, low morals and high adventure, the story follows four men on a collision course with a...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0190-1
Western writer and crime novelist Estleman (White Desert
, etc.), winner of both Shamus and Spur Awards, is at the top of his game in this latest installment in a series featuring Page Murdock, deputy U.S. marshal. Murdock may be a peace officer,...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Forge $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0448-3
Reading a new Amos Walker adventure is like settling down and listening to an old, reliably entertaining friend. In this 17th book in the series (after 2003's Poison Blonde
), Beryl Garnet, a dying madam, summons the Detroit detective to find...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Forge $23.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0913-6
As in The Master Executioner
, his 2001 tour de force, Estleman picks an unpopular profession and draws from it two compelling characters, and a memorable love story as well. Circa 1900, retired undertaker Richard Connable is pressed back into...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Forge $23.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1223-5
Amos Walker, Estleman's hard-boiled Detroit PI, shows no sign of losing steam in the 18th novel in this Shamus Award-winning series (Retro
, etc.). When a routine job tracing a deadbeat dad turns violent, Walker's life is saved by Jeff...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Forge $24.95 (269p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0914-3
Every one of Estleman's more than 50 crime novels and westerns (Port Hazard
, etc.) offers suspense, action, humor and plot twist, with the westerns all refreshingly devoid of formula horse opera antics. This one, set in 1873, is even funnier...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Forge $24.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-765-31224-2
The 19th Amos Walker mystery (after 2006's Nicotine Kiss
) confirms that Estleman's long-running contemporary hard-boiled hero deserves a place in the genre pantheon with such better-known figures as Raymond Chandler's classic gumshoe,...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Forge $24.95 (299p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1956-2
Shamus-winner Estleman, best known for his hard-boiled Amos Walker series (American Detective
, etc.), creates a new, morally complex world in this razor-sharp tale of crime and corruption in a fictional eastern U.S. city. Gas City, once known as...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Forge $23.95 (269p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1575-5
Having appeared in 10 short stories in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
, self-described “film detective” Valentino, who works as a film archivist at U.C.L.A., makes his novel-length debut in the engaging first of a new series from Shamus-wi
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Loren D. Estleman, Author , read by Mel Foster. Tantor Audio $34.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0620-2
Shamus-winner Estleman momentarily sidetracks his long-running Amos Walker series in favor of a rich, smartly detailed study of a Midwestern city that is serene and law-abiding on the surface but corrupt at its core. Its population includes...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Forge $24.95 (268p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1599-1
Estleman (Billy Gashade
) turns in a sharp, funny and exciting western centering on Isaac C. Parker (1838–1896), the notorious federal “Hanging Judge” for Arkansas and the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) from 1875 until his death....
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Forge $24.99 (268p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1576-2
Shamus-winner Estleman's captivating second mystery to feature L.A. film detective Valentino (after 2008's Frames
) focuses on legendary screen actress Greta Garbo. In 2005, Matthew Rankin, an elderly department store mogul whose late wife
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Loren D. Estleman, Author . Forge $23.99 (271p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1600-4
Prolific western and mystery writer Estleman (The Branch and the Scaffold
) combines the best of both in his 43rd novel, an exciting western loaded with intrigue, suspense, and clever plot twists. Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock is sent to Texas in
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Loren D. Estleman, Tyrus (Consortium, dist.), $32.95 (600p) ISBN 978-1-935562-24-5
All the elements that have made Estleman one of the best hard-boiled writers of all time—just a notch below Chandler and Hammett—are present in these 32 short stories. Remarkably, he has kept his Detroit-based Amos Walker series (Motor City Blue)...
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Loren D. Estleman, Forge, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1954-8
A challenging inquiry places Amos Walker at odds with his only real friend, investigative journalist Barry Stackpole, in Estleman's superlative 20th novel featuring the Detroit PI (after 2007's American Detective). A car bombing that left Stackpole...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Forge $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-85997-8
In a rousing and entertaining ride through the Old West, Estleman (City of Windows) takes potshots at our conventional understanding of western heroes and their legends. The tale is told by 88-year-old Billy Gashade who, in Hollywood in 1935,...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Forge $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-86676-1
From the author of the swashbuckling Billy Gashade comes this curiously fragmented story comprising anecdotal episodes from the pioneer days of Hollywood. The narrative unfolds in a series of long flashbacks to the year 1913 between flickering cuts...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author Forge $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-86369-2
Detroit is most of the setting for Estleman's crime dramas (he is also an acclaimed author of westerns), but the author sees seven of his novels in particular as forming a ""Detroit Series,"" charting the city's history and telling in microcosm the...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author, John Lescroart, Foreword by Writers Digest Books $15.99 (242p) ISBN 978-1-58297-288-6
Shamus-winner Loren D. Estleman delivers encouragement and sound advice in Writing the Popular Novel: A Comprehensive Guide to Crafting Fiction That Sells. .
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Loren D. Estleman. Forge, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3120-5
An unusual client hires Amos Walker in Edgar-finalist Estleman’s outstanding 22nd novel featuring the Detroit PI (after 2011’s Infernal Angels). Walker’s longtime friend and professional ally, Insp. John Alderdyce “of the Detroit Police Homicide...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author, Loren D. Estelman, Author Crimeline $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28605-2
PI Ralph Poteet contends with the police, a killer and numerous murder victims after attempting to blackmail a bishop with evidence of a monsignor dying in a hooker's bed. ``The humor is broad, the story silly; the usually reliable writer...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author, Loren D. Estelman, Author Bantam Books $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07421-5
The second installment of Estleman's Detroit trilogy ( Whiskey River ) is terrific: fast, intricate and often funny. Choreographing the movements leading to the August 1966 Detroit riots, Estleman focuses on three main characters: Rick Amery, an ex-c
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Loren D. Estleman, Author, Loren D. Estelman, Author Bantam Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08926-4
This final volume in Estleman's Detroit trilogy (after Whiskey River and Motown ) is a superb thriller that may cause an uproar in America's sixth-largest city. Doc Miller, once an ace reliever for the Tigers, is sprung after seven years in prison,...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author, Loren D. Estelman, Author Doubleday Books $15 (182p) ISBN 978-0-385-24727-6
Estleman ( Bloody Season ) sets this western adaptation of Treasure Island 20 years after the Civil War in Panhandle, Okla., where 13-year-old David Grayle's mother owns a boardinghouse. A strange visitor, Jotham Flynn, fresh out of jail, has come...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author, Loren D. Estelman, Author Bantam Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05231-2
Winner of three Golden Spur Awards, Estleman here tells of the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1881 Tombstone, Ariz., but the novel is a curious mixture of impressionism and straight history. Most readers won't be able to sort out the...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author, Loren D. Estelman, Author Bantam Books $16.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-553-05363-0
Estleman, arguably the finest practitioner of hard-boiled private eye fiction with his Amos Walker novels, shifts gears in this latest offering. The setting is still Detroit, but readers expecting the usual tight, tough adventure are in for a...
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Loren D. Estleman, Author, L. Estleman, Author . Forge $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0447-6
PI Amos Walker makes a two-fisted foray into the Detroit Latin music scene in Estleman's 50th book, the 17th entry in this streetwise series (after 2002's Sinister Heights). Eschewing the suburbs, Amos inhabits a tiny house bordering on the...
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