Charlie Hardie (5 books in series)
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review 1: Absolutely loved this! Fast-paced, inventive plot, strong and humorous narrative voice, characters that leap off the page and impale you with mic stands. What more can you ask of a modern, snappy noir set in LA-LA Land? Sure, it's absurd, but that's part of the fun. And any write...
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review 1: This guy can really write a book that packs a punch. House sitter Charlie Hardie has a real pickle on his hands when he shows up at his gig and finds someone in the house when no one is supposed to be home. Of course Charlie probably did not figure on any of the fun and games abo...
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review 1: Not as whiz-bang action-packed or break-neck speedy as the first installment. The "prison experiment" scenario holds few surprises for me as a horror fan (the genre to which a setting like that typically lends itself) and as an abnormal psyche enthusiast (I find human behavior ex...
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review 1: Even by Duane Swierczynski standards, the Charlie Hardie books are ridiculous. They push the upper limits of credulity and the lower limits of literary acceptability. Definitely a guilty pleasure, and one that I've enjoyed in the past. But with Point and Shoot, I felt like mos...
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review 1: The most fun I've had with a Swierczynski book yet. This story is much tighter than the ones I've read in the past. It features a plot that as usual, stretches, the imagination but a conspiracy so digestible that it barely matters. Into a world of crass commercialism (to which th...