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Book SynopsisNewly available in print, Joseph Hansen's classic mystery series starring Dave Brandstetter, a gay private eye in 70s and 80s California.
Trade ReviewThe Brandstetter books are classics of the private eye genre...it's great to see them available again -- Peter Robinson
Incredible books, much overlooked -- Jeff Abbott, author of PANIC
The most exciting and effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today * LA Times *
Hansen, one of the best practitioners of the California private-eye school...writes crisply with a lean, spare prose that echoes Hammett, Chandler and Macdonald * Washington Post *
In Brandstetter, Hansen has developed a sympathetic character of depth and integrity * Chicago Sun-Times *
No mystery writer is better at evoking the landscape, the light, the architecture and the ethnic diversity of Los Angeles * Time *
Hansen is a strong unflinching writer and everything in his taut prose is real * Boston Globe *
An exceptionally urbane literary style * New York Times Book Review *
Hansen writes about Southern California with the descriptive love once given it by Raymond Chandler * Herald Examiner *
An excellent craftsman, a compelling writer, he has a real gift for storytelling - for character, for scene, for pace independent of violence * New Yorker *
