I read a lot of novels and I'd like to talk about them. As a Catholic, I'd rather read fiction written from a Christian perspective than not, and because I believe I'm not unusual in this, I'm creating this blog to generate discussion of authors and fiction that meets this criterion. Personally, I'm mostly interested in mysteries, thrillers, police procedurals and legal novels, so that's the genres in which I'll be making my contributions. But I'm interested in the comments of others not just on the authors I'm recommending. I'd also like your recommendations, and in other genres too: sci-fi, historical, whatever.
I'm not really a fan of "on-the-nose" Christian fiction that wears its beliefs on its sleeve so to speak. Just fiction that aims at the general readership, Christian and non-Christian alike, but which manifests a Christian perspective. So books in which the protagonist is a priest, nun, rabbi or pastor are not what this blogsite is about. People who want that kind of book shoul dhave no trouble finding them since they advertise their clerical hero on the front cover, usually.
Here are some authors I will write about from having read and liked them, or not liked them, if they still fit my critertion:
Police thriller or procedural: John Westermann, Ed Dee, P.D. James
Private eye: James Swain,
Gothic Thriller: Dean Koontz
Thriller legal procedural: Michael Gruber, his own stuff since 2006 or writing as Robert K.Tanenbaum before 2006.
Thriller: Ed Dekker
and Fantasy: recommended but unread by me, comment anyway: Stephen Lougheed
Add your own recommendations and comments.
