with Michael Simon's Dirty Sally: good-quality noir fiction, set in Austin in the late 80s--I hope that this is the first in a series, I will avidly await the next one.
I had the same reaction Sarah did. I think that's the problem sometimes with reading so many crime novels: some of the ones you might otherwise like feel too much the same, and thus disappoint.
I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Funny! I thought he had a few too many strands going on, but I liked it very much.
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