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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Good detective/police/murder crime novel?Question: Good detective/police/murder crime novel!? Hi,
So I am looking for a modern day detective, crime, piece it together type story that isn't sherlock holmes!. Something modern day involving modern things like murders in New York ect ect!. Can anyone recommend a good book like that!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Lawrence Block has 2 different mystery series that I enjoy and they are both set in New York City!. The Matthew Scudder novels are about a former cop who does private investigations!. They are sort of dark though not quite as bad in the later ones where he quit drinking and goes to a lot of AA meetings!. He also has a series that is pretty funny where the main character is a burglar named Bernard Rhodenbarr!. Another good series that I just started is the Myron Bolitar series written by Harlan Coben!. Myron is a former college basketball star who was injured after being drafted by the Celtics so he never got to play in the NBA!. He went to Harvard Law, worked for the FBI and is now a sports agent working in NYC!. I've read 3 of the 8 in the series so far and am enjoying them very much!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Well, I love reading the CSI novels!. (They're based off the show)!. They are basically like the show in the fact that they have the same characters and stuff, but they are written by authors not affiliated with the show, so their crimes are usually set in different places and are not based on specific crimes from the individual CSI shows!. But, they're all really good reads!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz (the first book in the Alex Rider series) is a great Adventure spy book with a 14 year old spy who has to go into dangerous missions around the world and figure out what's going on!. He also gets really cool gadgets!. It is a great crime story, action packed and a book you will never want to put down!. It has even been made into a movie! (The book's better though!) This is a whole series of books, so if you like it, there are seven more to read! Blurb on the back of the book: They told him his uncle died in an accident!. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt, they said!. But when fourteen-year-old Alex finds his uncle's windshield riddled with bullet holes, he knows it was no accident!. What he doesn't know yet is that his uncle was killed while on a top-secret mission!. But he is about to, and once he does, there is no turning back!. Finding himself in the middle of terrorists, Alex must outsmart the people who want him dead!. The government has given him the technology, but only he can provide the courage!. Should he fail, every child in England will be murdered in cold blood!. The first in the Alex Rider series by British writer Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker will have pulses racing from start to finish!. also some of my other favourites are: Cry of the Cat by Emily Rodda (crime mystery) Watchers I!.D By Peter Lerangis (Blurb on the back of the book: Nobody knows who the watchers are!. But they are around us!. They observe us!. They see the things we can't see!.!.!. Who is Eve Hardy!? Is she the only child of a normal pair of parents!? Or is she the offspring of a bizarre experiment that has gone horrible wrong!? Eve doesn't know!. But if she doesn't find out the truth, it will destroy her!. Time is running out!.!.!.) Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (blurb on the back of the book: On a warm October night in Chicago, three deliveries were made in the same neighbourhood!. A plump tangereen moon had just risen over Lake Michigan!. The doorbell had been rung at each place, and an envelope propped outside!.!.!.The same letter went out to all three: Dear Friend, I would like your help in identifying a crime that is now centuries old!. This crime has wronged one of the world's greatest painters!. As those in positions of authority are not brave enough to correct this error, I have taken it upon myself to reveal the truth!. I have chosen you because of your discriminating eye, your intelligence, and your ability to think outside of convention!.!.!.Although you may never meet, the three of you will work together in ways none of us can predict!. If you show this to the authorities, you will most certainly be placing your life in danger!.!.!. The letter was not signed, and it had no return address)!. Anyway, those are some of my favourite books!. I hope I helped! Www@QuestionHome@Com |