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In reply to the discussion: What are you reading the week of February 5, 2012? [View all]mvccd1000
(1,534 posts)28. I hardly remember that one...
I read the series in the '80s when I worked in a library, so the early ones are buried deep in the memory banks somewhere. I love the little Detroit tidbits he throws in throughout the books, though; stuff like the Purple Gang running booze across the river (in cars!) during Prohibition, or the goings-on in the old Detroit PD HQ at 1300.
He also has a great trilogy of Detroit through the years, including the glory days of the automotive industry and the time of the riots in the 60s. I think some of the names are Edsel and Stress.
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Am finishing Helene Tursten's first Inspector Huss..looking forward to number two....z
Zoigal
Feb 2012
#11
If you get MHz Worldview on your cable or satellite system (it's on public access
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2012
#12
Oops, forgot my "purse book," which is John Le Carré's The Honorable Schoolboy,
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2012
#20