Character Quote by Kathy Reichs

The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel.…

— Michael Connelly

I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked.

— Michael Connelly

I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.

— William Lashner

I find 'True Grit' to be one of the very best American novels: It is a rousing adventure story and deeply perceptive about the…

— George Pelecanos

“I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographical novel about Jack Kerouac,…

— Cory Doctorow

I like this book by Angela Duckworth called 'Grit.'

— Joe Harris

“A Long Way from Chicago is the funniest book I have read in a while. You will enjoy the antics of Grandma and the…

— Robert Peck

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read…

— Megan Abbott

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back…

— Shalom Auslander

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

— Henry Rollins

With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.

— Ethan Coen