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Featured Mystery AuthorThis Month's Featured Author: James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke spent his young life in Texas and southern Louisiana and grew up with his first cousin Andre Dubus. Along with being a writer, Burke has had a number of jobs including newspaper reporter, pipeliner and social worker on skid row in Los Angeles. Scroll down the page for some of his favorite reads.
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch Series #1)
This is not only a fine story about robbers tunneling under the city streets of Los Angeles, it is also a sociological and allegorical tale that shows how a war in Southeast Asia can have consequences for the homeland.
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This will always remain one of my favorite books in any genre. It deals with the stigmata of a cloistered Catholic nun who becomes both feared and loathed because of the lesions that appear on her hands and feet. It is not a religious tale but one that deals with the destructive nature of envy and fear.
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This book is by my daughter Alafair Burke. I think the main character, Ellie Hatcher, is one of the most intriguing protagonists in contemporary crime fiction. I can arguably be accused of bias, but most of Alafair's peers agree that the skill and authority and first-hand experience reflected in her work are extraordinary and make for a fine book.
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This novel is an outstanding treatment of the New York crime families, but more importantly it is the source of perhaps the greatest movie ever made. By the way, Mario Puzo wrote the screenplay and made a suggestion to the director that resulted in creating one of the most memorable final scenes in movie history.
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This novel is one of the best ever written about neo-colonialism and the evil that it often breeds. Set in El Salvador, it's a classic story about the struggle between good and evil, innocence and corruption. This is Robert Stone at his best.
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This is a look at Vegas before it was turned into Disney World. Bugsey Siegel would have loved this book.
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I include this biographical account of the 1919 Black Sox scandal because it deals in a honest way with the level of greed that characterized the American underworld in the first half of the 20th century. As F. Scott Fitzgerald said, these were the men who played with the faith of fifty million people.
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This anti-war book deals with the idealism of a young American who blunders into the underbelly of Indochina in the early 1950s. Had we read this book when it was published in 1955, a great tragedy would perhaps have been averted.
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