Chandler Meets Christie — And Both Live in The Long Game
Crime fiction has two great traditions, and they could hardly be more different. On one side: Agatha Christie, the puzzle, the closed circle of suspects, the detective who assembles truth from fragments and delivers it with quiet precision. On the other: Raymond Chandler, the hardboiled detective moving through a corrupt world, following a moral code…
If You Love Jack Reacher and Carl Hiaasen, You Need to Meet Frankie Armstrong
You’ve finished the Reacher series. Again. You’ve burned through every Carl Hiaasen novel set in Florida. You need something new — but it has to hit that same nerve. Gritty. Fast. Smart. With a protagonist who doesn’t flinch. Meet Frankie Armstrong. The DNA of a Great Crime Thriller Hero What makes Jack Reacher work isn’t…