Derek Strange and Terry Quinn Right as Rain, Book 1, (Paperback)

from mockturtle

Thrilled to re-read this, my first Pelecanos (originally read around 2002, I think), for my mystery book group. Alas, early feedback tells me this bunch -- for the most part -- are not destined to be the big Pelecanos fans that this book led me to become. But I think he's one of the greatest. I'v...

from DaveWilde

"Right as Rain" is the first novel in a series of four novels by George Pelacanos about Washington, D.C., detectives Derek Strange and Terry Quinn. It was followed by "Hell To Pay," "Soul Circus," and "Hard Revolution." This is the first novel in the series (although Hard Revolution, a far more a...

from dougwood57

'Right as Rain' started the Derek Strange and Terry Quinn series of crime novels set in Washington DC by George Pelecanos. Strange and Quinn are each former-DC cops. Strange is black and Quinn isn't. Strange is a private detective and Quinn isn't. Strange is under control and Quinn - nope. Strang...

from gmmartz

This book has been around for awhile, and I wish I'd come across it earlier. Usually, when I 'discover' an author with a deep catalog, I'll read the latest book, then go back and start at the beginning and work forward. For some reason, I'd bounced around with George Pelecanos and had already rea...

from susandennis

Derek Strange is a PI in Washington, DC and is hired by a dead cop's mother to find out the real circumstances of her son's death and clear his good name. I "read" this book with my ears and while the story was ok and the plot was ok, the reading was magical. Richard Allen is the narrator and he ...