Archive for the ‘Edgar Award Nominee’ Category

STARVATION LAKE by Bryan Gruley

Chicago Wall Street Journal bureau chief Gruley has hit on a winning combination for his debut novel – visceral amateur hockey and in-your-face small-town newspapering.

Narrator Gus Carpenter, hockey goalie and editor of the Pilot, isn’t too happy about either role. He had escaped insular Starvation Lake, Michigan, and landed a job at the Detroit News intending never to look back. But the big story that was supposed to win him a Pulitzer earned him a one-way ticket back home in disgrace instead.

May 16, 2010 · Judi Clark · No Comments
Tags: , , ,  Â· Posted in: 2009 Favorites, Edgar Award Nominee, Mystery/Suspense, Sleuths Series, Small Town, US Midwest

BLACK WATER RISING by Attica Locke

I offer the above quote, a pithy economic assessment of race, not because I find it particularly compelling, though I think it is; nor because it summarizes the plot of this novel; it does not. Rather, it’s there because this novel reads surprisingly like a well-argued survey of American race relations in the 1980s–that it also happens to be a page-turning noir thriller is all the better.

September 4, 2009 · Judi Clark · Comments Closed
Tags: , , ,  Â· Posted in: Class - Race - Gender, Debut Novel, Edgar Award Nominee, Mystery/Suspense, Noir, Texas, Time Period Fiction

The Bitter Little World of MEGAN ABBOTT

Comments by Guy Savage on Megan Abbott’s novels including her latest, BURY ME DEEP.

July 8, 2009 · Judi Clark · No Comments
Tags: , , , ,  Â· Posted in: Award Winning Author, Edgar Award Nominee, Facing History, Noir, Real People Fiction