The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning
On sale
20th November 2014
Price: £5.99
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ebook / ISBN-13: 9781444784596
‘After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor’ The Times
Dave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the business. Like them, he was tough, determined, and ruthless when the case demanded it. Unlike them, he was gay.
Joseph Hansen’s groundbreaking novels follow Brandstetter as he investigates cases in which motives are murky, passions run high, and nothing is ever as simple as it looks. Set in 1970s and 80s California, the series is a fascinating portrait of a time and a place, with mysteries to match Chandler and Macdonald.
The ‘Combat Zone’ is for men playing at war, with paint rather than bullets. But when a millionaire’s son is shot with a real gun, Dave is called in to find out if it’s more than an accident. The case takes him to a town with its own neo-Nazi militia – not the safest place for a gay PI; but then Dave has never figured his own safety much when he’s on the tracks of a killer.
Dave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the business. Like them, he was tough, determined, and ruthless when the case demanded it. Unlike them, he was gay.
Joseph Hansen’s groundbreaking novels follow Brandstetter as he investigates cases in which motives are murky, passions run high, and nothing is ever as simple as it looks. Set in 1970s and 80s California, the series is a fascinating portrait of a time and a place, with mysteries to match Chandler and Macdonald.
The ‘Combat Zone’ is for men playing at war, with paint rather than bullets. But when a millionaire’s son is shot with a real gun, Dave is called in to find out if it’s more than an accident. The case takes him to a town with its own neo-Nazi militia – not the safest place for a gay PI; but then Dave has never figured his own safety much when he’s on the tracks of a killer.
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Reviews
No mystery writer is better at evoking the landscape, the light, the architecture and the ethnic diversity of Los Angeles
Hansen writes about Southern California with the descriptive love once given it by Raymond Chandler
An excellent craftsman, a compelling writer, he has a real gift for storytelling - for character, for scene, for pace independent of violence
The most exciting and effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today
In Brandstetter, Hansen has developed a sympathetic character of depth and integrity
Hansen is a strong unflinching writer and everything in his taut prose is real
An exceptionally urbane literary style
Hansen, one of the best practitioners of the California private-eye school...writes crisply with a lean, spare prose that echoes Hammett, Chandler and Macdonald
