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     Oh hell.  Elmore Leonard died.
      I remember when that whole Miami Vice thing started he got right in the first wave of that, with Glitz and his other novels set in South Florida. Of course he had been around writing good stories before that. E.G. Mr. Majestyk. In one of his interviews he said he subscribed to Arizona Highways to get the scene descriptions for his early Westerns.
     I remember George Will wrote in the introduction to one of the later ones - the one set in Detroit? - that you should just read the first chapter right there in the bookstore. "The owner won't mind because he knows you will then buy the book."

   Right now I am reading the new Ace Atkins, The Lost Ones, starring Quinn Colson et al. So far it is just as good as the others.
   Also Lauren Beukes has come out with a crime thriller, The Shining Girls, which is pretty good even though I usually don't care for science fiction. We'll have to see if the sci-fi neutralizes the story too much.

         Tom Piccirilli  has followed up his  Last Kind Words  with another semi-thriller, The Last Whisper in the Dark, with the same characters.  If you liked the first one you'll like the second one.