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When I’m not studying the religious books I brought back from Bhutan, I’m a keen reader of crime stories – mostly those featuring private detectives.  Some of my favourites are still those I first discovered in the library at my boarding school, Ramsdean Preparatory School. Here together with some more up to date titles are a few of my favourite writers and the books I’ve most enjoyed. I’ll be changing the list every couple of months.  

Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep

Robert B Parker – Perish Twice

Robert Edric – Cradle Song
Elmore Leonard – The Hot Kid
Alan Furst – The World At Night
Michael Connelly - The Lincoln Lawyer
Michael Avallone - The Violent Virgin
Robert Wilson – A Small Death in Lisbon
Peter Cheyney - The Urgent Hangman/Dangerous Curves
Sara Paretsky – Fire Sale
Jim Thompson – Hell of a Woman
Dashiel Hammett - The Red Harvest
Rex Stout – Champagne for One
George Simenon – The Stain on the Snow
Leo Malet – Mission to Marseilles
Robert Crais – L.A Requiem
Robert Harris – Fatherland
John Harvey – In a True Light
Linda Fairstein – Final Jeopardy
James Ellroy – L.A. Confidential

“I looked back at the pictures and shivered with apprehension.  The hand and the mind that had painted them  were certainly capable of using a gun.”

Red hair and long legs, you’ll like Charlotte Ashley.  I did, until I realised ‘red’ meant danger!