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Reading Raymond Chandler and other mysteries
By Amy Sutherland Globe Correspondent,Updated April 28, 2021, 10:54 p.m.
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With his 10th book, âA Man Named Doll,â Jonathan Ames has gone all noir with the story of Happy Doll, an ex-cop who protects the young women at a Thai spa from over eager clients. That, of course, does not turn out to be so simple, and soon someone has a bullet in his gut. Amesâs previous novel, âYou Were Never Really Here,â was adapted into a film starring Joaquin Phoenix. Ames is also the creator of two television series, âBlunt Talkâ and HBOâs âBored to Death.â He lives in Hollywood near Raymond Chandlerâs old office.
Boys for Pele, an entry in the 33 1/3 music criticism book series. But the draw of writing about her experience in higher education remained. This February, it coalesced in the publication of her third thriller,
Bad Habits. The novel kicks off, yes, with the reunion of two former childhood friends at an academic conference. One of them – Claire, a consummate survivor who used to go by Mac – is a star speaker at the conference. The other – the moneyed and universally adored Gwen – has abandoned academia and is about to get married. The former is seething at the latter, and the book unravels their mutual past at a grueling but intoxicating graduate humanities program colloquially referred to simply as the Program.