Streeter
Created by Michael Stone

One of the best new eyes of the nineties, Michael Stone's Denver bounty hunter and sometime private eye STREETER is just a pile of exes. He's an ex-linebacker, an ex-accountant, an ex-bouncer, an ex-husband (four times) and an ex-fiancé (three times). And he works out of an ex-church.

Obviously, judging from his record with women, under Streeter's tough battered exterior beats a heart that just can't say "No." And Streeter's at least aware of these contradictions, and as he grows older, he's not above a little worrying about thinning hair, facial age lines, and finding the right woman.

An entertaining series, building on the traditions of the hard-boiled genre just enough to have a hell of a lot of fun with them, and a protagonist that is human enough to be more than another swinging dick.

And as if that wasn't enough, the series sported excellent covers, with their beautiful painted illustrations, by Owen Smith, successfully evoking the days of the pulps. Sometimes, it seems, you can judge a book by its cover. Recommended.

Which makes the fact that the series abruptly ended all the more frustrating. Michael Stone, an actual Denver private investigator according to his author bio, wrote four Streeter mysteries and the first one, The Low End of Nowhere, was even nominated for a Shamus.

And then, nothing...

UNDER OATH

• "Tough, abrasive prose punctuated by occasional humor, constant action, and memorable characters. Recommended."
  -- Library Journal on The Low End of Nowhere

NOVELS

• The Low End of Nowhere (1996)..Buy this book
• A Long Reach (1997)..Buy this book
• Token of Remorse (1998)..Buy this book
• Totally Dead (1999)..Buy this book

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.