'Trash'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Another "tragically died too soon" mystery writer I enjoyed is Kate Ross, who has a Regency dandy as her detective. The books are Cut to the Quick, A Broken Vessel, Whom The Gods Love, and A Devil in Music (which is a whole new level of depth and sophistication from the first three, and makes her death even more tragic to think where she might have gone next.)
Passage needed an editor, big time. There was a good book in there, under all those words.
Another "tragically died too soon" mystery writer I enjoyed is Kate Ross, who has a Regency dandy as her detective.
Oh, I adored them. So, so good.
Robert B. Parker: The early Spenser novels (1979-1989) are excellent. They go downhill after that, plus there's the Susan Silberman factor.
LOVE. You know I have a bunch of those back at my mom's house I have to go over there tonight, maybe I'll grab a few.
There's a writer named C.T. Harris (C.J. Harris? something like that) who's written some Regency-era mysteries. Nowhere near the depth of A Devil in Music, but readable.
C.S Harris, perhaps Toddson? (One of the titles is Why Mermaids Sing)
yes, that's it! thanks!
My favorite Connie Willis is Bellwether
love love love this. I almost recommended it earlier but I didn't know the author's name and I was feeling lazy wrt google. To a small degree the book changed the way I think about the universe.
Flea beat me to Kate Moss; she was marvelous.
I can also recommend PF Chisholm's Elizabethan-era mysteries. Those are quite fun, and rather more substantive, historically, than most historical mysteries. Chisholm is actually Patricia Finney, and she's quite a historian.
The porous line between "literary" fiction that plays with SF and the (much hated descriptor) "transcends the genre" science fiction writers.
Don't know how they missed Ballard on that list, though.
Also, it's terrible. (YMMV of course. I love Willis generally, but that book....ugh...)
Oh, shoot, I was going to ask if it was better written than Doomsday Book because the ideas sounds fascinating but I just loathed Doomsday Book . I can't even remember why exactly now. I wanted it to be so much better because the plot (at least in the beginning) was so intriguing to me. I do remember seriously wanting to throw it across the room by the end.