Books by Michael Craven and Complete Book Reviews
Michael Craven, Author . Harper $13.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-165716-0
Ad man Craven's first novel introduces an extremely likable detective, Donald Tremaine, a former champion surfer, now a Malibu PI living in a trailer by the beach. Tremaine's willingness to go with the flow and trust his intuition in a...
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Michael Craven. Harper/Bourbon Street, $14.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-230559-6
Near the start of Craven’s suspenseful, well-plotted neo-noir set in L.A., Arthur Vonz, “one of the top film directors in the world,” hires PI John Darvelle to track down his former mistress, Suzanne Neal—a beautiful actress whom he met on a movie...
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Michael Craven. Harper/Bourbon Street, $15.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-243937-6
In Craven’s superior second John Darvelle mystery (after 2014’s The Detective and the Pipe Girl), LAPD homicide detective Mike Ott asks the PI for his help with a cold case. Over a year earlier, well-to-do Keaton Fuller was shot dead in the driveway
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