Best "Suspense" writers

[Nunya]

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A Dangerous Road (A Smokey Dalton Novel) (Paperback)
by Kris Nelscott

this is his first book which won the mystery award..he has several others in the same vein....ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS READ...

this first one is set in Memphis during the assassination of MLK who is a childhood friend of the main character....the book is sooooooooooooooooo engrossing because it delves with black history sort of ...i.e. the scenarios etc r contemporary

i just discovered this author and have alllllll his books on my living room floor as i am reading them one after the other

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First off: Isn't Kris Nelscott a 'she'? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70402-thinking.gif[/img]

Ok, mi finally done. I picked up this book on the 3rd of August and it took me almost a month to complete... bloody hell...

I had difficulty maintaining an interest - at first. My interest was peaked early on (by the play) but ebbed rapidly after that. And so I put it down and would read maybe a paragraph or two before bed...

Somewhere around the middle of the book it started to come alive again - thankfully - and then the ending came at me like a freight train! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif[/img]

And I have to say, because of the ending (maybe the last 50 pages or so), my faith was reborn in your recommendations [img]/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] and I would purchase another of her books with this Dalton character as the main protagonist... ( and also if the storyline with Laura gets some pagetime...)

Pity Nelscott couldn't or didn't use the same energy throughout...

btw, dat deh book deh nuh fit eena de 'suspense' category.

[Nunya]

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Just did a quick search and found that Kris Nelscott is a pseudonym for Kristine Rusch

[evanovitch]

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the author's race an gender were not identified on the jacket of the first book..this is America and i guess they did not think that a white woman writing on the Civil Rights would be kosher..who knows...i found out all that later as i searched out the other books...u too bad...the forbidden fruit ketch u dont....well yes...she figures heavily in the one that is set in Chicago....the backdrop of that is the Chicago Nine and the Black Panther and for her, her fight to hold on to her 'father's' company....their romance of course continues an all that that encounters [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Nunya]

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We moved house over the weekend (been moving since last Wednesday) and so I wasn't able to get online to do any search...

But from the start, I thought the writer was a woman. And I found it curious the way she'd describe Laura (her softness, her femininity and her beauty) but left much of the description for the other women in Dalton's life, vague...

I also thought it curious how she skimmed on describing the essential blackness of Jimmy, Joe, Roscoe, Henry et al... sure, her setting was tight (I could feel the 60s), but I couldn't feel the blackness...

I expected to feel it like I would reading a Mosely - if you understand what I'm sayin... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

So when I saw her picture, I was pleasantly surprised to see that she was white woman, but yet I wasn't surprised...

As to the continuation of the Laura/Scarlet story - it was...intriguing - but not as good as the Jimmy/King connection. That was good! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

[evanovitch]

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wat excited me about the book was the storyline or rather the incorporating of current issues into a mystery...u know how hard it is to find black mystery characters so i was tooo excited....

[evanovitch]

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oh the Jimmy/King storyline continues as they put out a BOLO on the boy...had to , don't....the writing is not my British authors but i juss love finding black characters in a mystery where the writing is tolerable...

[Nunya]

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I totally understand. It came alive for me when she started telling of the marches and the speeches and the schedules for Dr. King and Abernathy and such.

[evanovitch]

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the others r the same..the social issues that r the backdrop for the book remind u of wat happened bak then...the one where they settle in Chicago is the same..u have theeee Chicago wid the Panthers, the rabidly racist police, city govament etc....the migration of blacks from the South seeking the 'promise' that the big cities supposedly afforded....one book is even set against the backdrop of the North...an u know the rude awakening that blacks got wen they got North an found it was akin to wat they had left downsouth..

[Blackstar*]

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James Ellroy

[evanovitch]

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MtnGal...tenk u kinely... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]btw, wat did u tink of di book...is not shakespeare but mi juss love finding books wid black characters ...aldoh di latest Ruth Rendell nearly mek mi write har so cuss har off...she mek a remark bout di criminal was not as bad as the Yardies, and one odda Jamaican reference...but it was in context of which crook would kill first an ask question later in di story [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]