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.
Where's the praising and extolling of my virtues? Where's the love?
Host ,'Not Fade Away'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Amy - Dec 18, 2008 11:48:34 am PST #8186 of 28431
Because books.
Vortex - Dec 18, 2008 12:21:25 pm PST #8187 of 28431
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
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.
Toddson - Dec 18, 2008 12:23:06 pm PST #8188 of 28431
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
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.
Sheryl - Dec 18, 2008 12:39:28 pm PST #8189 of 28431
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
C.S Harris, perhaps Toddson? (One of the titles is Why Mermaids Sing)
Toddson - Dec 18, 2008 12:46:50 pm PST #8190 of 28431
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
yes, that's it! thanks!
Laga - Dec 18, 2008 1:40:42 pm PST #8191 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
Consuela - Dec 18, 2008 4:45:27 pm PST #8192 of 28431
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
DavidS - Dec 19, 2008 8:06:46 am PST #8193 of 28431
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
lisah - Dec 19, 2008 8:46:55 am PST #8194 of 28431
Punishingly Intricate
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.
Jessica - Dec 19, 2008 8:58:48 am PST #8195 of 28431
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And I adore Doomsday Book!
Passages just draaaaaaaaaaaaaaged for me. By the time I got to the last page I was still waiting for the book to start.