Private eye Lew Archer goes looking for a runaway bride and stumbles across a series of murders that stretch back decades in Ross Macdonald's The Chill.
As a teenager and young adult I was a great devotee of Macdonald's Archer series and thought I had pretty much read them all until I stumbled across this paperback at a used book sale at the university where I work. I'm glad, as I think I appreciate Macdonald's writing even greater with more adult eyes.
Macdonald writes a great hardboiled story but includes a lot of psychological elements that makes the storytelling even more sophisticated. If you have somehow passed by Macdonald's work it's never too late to jump in (and there have been several good movie versions as well). Recommended for fans.
As a teenager and young adult I was a great devotee of Macdonald's Archer series and thought I had pretty much read them all until I stumbled across this paperback at a used book sale at the university where I work. I'm glad, as I think I appreciate Macdonald's writing even greater with more adult eyes.
Macdonald writes a great hardboiled story but includes a lot of psychological elements that makes the storytelling even more sophisticated. If you have somehow passed by Macdonald's work it's never too late to jump in (and there have been several good movie versions as well). Recommended for fans.
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