Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Twelve of the best LA books

David Gordon was born in New York City. His first novel, The Serialist, won the VCU/Cabell First Novel Award and was a finalist for an Edgar Award. It was also made into a major motion picture in Japan. His work has also appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, Purple, and Fence, among other publications.

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Gordon's new novel is Behind Sunset.

At The Strand Magazine he tagged twelve favorite Los Angeles books. One title on the list:
The Black Echo – Michael Connelly

This novel, Connelly’s debut, begins the saga of Harry Hieronymous Bosch, a Hollywood homicide detective, driven by his own demons and on a holy crusade to seek justice, especially for the forgotten, like his own mother, a prostitute slain on the same LA streets he now guards.
Read about another book on Gordon's list.

Harry Bosch is among Alan Parks's top ten cops in fiction and Jeff Somers's six fictional cops who do things according to their own set of rules.

--Marshal Zeringue