What is Peter Corris reading?

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Peter Corris, author of the acclaimed crime-fiction Cliff Hardy series as well as non-crime books such as The Journal of Fletcher Christian (2005).

One book among his recent reading:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.... I'm about half way through the Larsson. Scandinavian crime writers are all the rage at the moment. They have the bleakness of the climate on their side -- crime writing requiring an element of bleakness. I'm enjoying the story but I have feeling, at over 500 pages, that the book is a bit padded. [read on]

Learn more about the full Cliff Hardy series and Peter Corris's other fiction and non-fiction at his website.

Read The Page 99 Test: Appeal Denied.

See what Corris thinks about the work of Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Walter Mosley, and James Elroy in this 2003 profile in The Age.

View the Peter Corris plaque, Circular Quay, Sydney (via Matilda).

Writers Read: Peter Corris.

--Marshal Zeringue