Observations from the Balcony

Blake Butler at HTMLGIANT wants to know:

“What are some great mystery-style novels, pulp or literary, or ones that use that constantly updating confusion/terror/detective narrative drive to fuel their heart?”

See my response after the jump……

These are off the top of my head, without my books in front of me.

The Lew Griffin books and The John Turner books both by James Sallis
The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno
The Death of the Detective by Mark Smith
Kiss Me Judas, Penny Dreadful both by Will Christopher Baer
Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand
Box Nine, The Skin Palace, Wireless, Word Made Flesh, The Resurrectionist all by Jack O’Connell
Raveling, Los Angeles both by Peter Moore Smith
The Insult, Death of a Murderer both by Rupert Thomson
Game by Conrad Williams
After Silence by Jonathan Carroll
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The God File by Frank Turner Hollon
The Factory novels by Derek Raymond
Senseless by Stona Fitch
The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
Shadow Season by Tom Piccirilli

There are a lot more suggestions to be made but a few dozen is probably a good start.