Little Girl Lost, by Richard Aleas
Nov. 1st, 2008 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aLast night I finished up Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas (not his real name). I'd heard the author, Charles Ardai, talking on NPR, and I liked the fact that he said that LGL was more noir than mystery, and I liked the fact that he said it included a protagonist who was a bit of a weakling (which is pretty atypical in the detective genre).
I was not disappointed. LGL was quite well written. I liked the characters, I liked the mystery, and it did have a great noir feel to it. There was a big twist that I caught on to about 40 or 50 pages early, but I'd rather that than the alternative where it comes totally out of nowhere.
His second book in this series, Songs of Innocence, is apparently even better. I'm also somewhat interested in checking out some of the other books from his publishing company, Hard Case Crime, which mixes out of print classics with new stuff like Ardais' own.
I was not disappointed. LGL was quite well written. I liked the characters, I liked the mystery, and it did have a great noir feel to it. There was a big twist that I caught on to about 40 or 50 pages early, but I'd rather that than the alternative where it comes totally out of nowhere.
His second book in this series, Songs of Innocence, is apparently even better. I'm also somewhat interested in checking out some of the other books from his publishing company, Hard Case Crime, which mixes out of print classics with new stuff like Ardais' own.