I'll second both John Sandford series. I have some catching up to do with the Flowers books but have been reading the Prey novels since he started them.
Also not an expert on police procedure but I don't think there's anything too fantastical in them. The dialog between the cops is always entertaining, realistic or not. There's plenty of instances where Davenport screws up and pays the consequences, and he ages and changes as the series progresses which you don't always see.
He also does a good job making Flowers a very different character, so the series have a different feel.
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It’s time to reread it.
Just a dog chauffeur that used to hold the dumb end of the leash.
I vicariously experienced my ex-wife getting an MFA in creative writing. At one point the plan was for her to get hers, then for me to get mine. After watching her navigate that toxic environment, I said "nope" and now I write lowly genre fiction. Those folks would look down on me , but I'm paying the mortgage with book royalties, so there's that.
What comes to be considered "good" in literary fiction is interesting. Some of those books are breathtaking books that will change your life. Most of them are boosted because of who the author knows, or in many cases, literally sleeping with.
There's long been speculation that many people buy the popular lit-fic books as a form of virtue signaling, but don't actually read them. One of the funny things about eBooks is that retailers like Amazon and Kobo actually know whether books are getting finished or not, and their numbers bear that out.
I was into 10mm Auto before it sold out and went mainstream, but these days I'm here for the revolver and epidemiology information.
I just finished the latest Expanse book. I love the series, both in print and on Amazon streaming.
“There is no growth in the comfort zone.”--Jocko Willink
"You can never have too many knives." --Joe Ambercrombie
My shelves have a few dozen "signaling" titles from my college years. A fair number are, indeed, unread.
I stopped caring what anyone thought about what I read a long time ago, and I finish every single book I buy now - Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Iain M. Banks (sadly, I have exhausted his works and am on my last Banks read ever, rest his soul), Alastair Reynolds, and anything that I just genuinely enjoy and am excited to read, which is usually military, sci fi, fantasy, or detective-type stuff.
Life is such a short, fleeting thing, and reading such an enjoyable escape from it, that the very idea I once cared what some mysterious peer group thought about what I'm reading is alien, like a different human being had those concerns.
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