“”I’ve recently become interested in George Pelecanos””
I’m in the mood for new authors. Thanks. I like crime stories especially if they involve Washington, DC. I’m not nearly as self righteous as most of the replies here imply. I cannot take heavy reading now. My reading has to be FUN in my down time.
I am cleaning out all my David Baldacci books because I decided I am not going to be run all over the mulberry tree with multiple characters and multiple plots at my age. A third of the way through his latest books I’ve nearly thrown them at the wall. I will put them in a bin at my library and will have more room on my bookshelves now - Hurray!
Used to be a favorite of mine but no longer. Maybe it was because I read that he met obozo’s plane (OUR PLANE, IN FACT), on one of their trips to Maine?????
One of the things that interested me was that lots of Pelecanos’ stories take place in the near past, and there appears to be a lot of detail as to what Washington was like just after WWII, in the ‘seventies, etc.
They might be a little ‘gritty’ for me - I usually like the kinds of mysteries that Martha Grimes, or Jane Langton have written - but being a native, the DC angle interests me. A lot of them are available for Kindle, now - which is great to carry around and read at those times when you’d otherwise just be ‘waiting’.
-JT