Glitz: A Novel

Glitz: A Novel

by Elmore Leonard

4.3 (585)

4.3 stars from 585 reviews. Top 94% of Thriller books we track.

250 pages~4.2 hr readPublished by Hachette UKPublished 2012-02-16

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Perfect for you if...

  • You love crime thrillers with genuinely twisted villains who feel unpredictable and dangerous, not just evil for evil's sake.
  • You appreciate lean, propulsive writing that moves at a sprint without sacrificing character depth or dark humour.
  • You've watched Justified or The Sopranos and want prose that matches the tension and craft of prestige TV crime drama.

Maybe not for you if...

  • You prefer mysteries where the puzzle matters more than the characters or want a detective methodically solving a case.
  • You're looking for moral clarity or heroes who feel heroic. Leonard's characters operate in grey zones.
  • You need your thrillers padded with subplots, romance, or lengthy exposition. This one is tight and focused.

About this book

“Intense….A higher caliber of entertainment.”—New York TimesElmore Leonard’s Glitz is a killer…in the best possible way. “The King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times) electrifies with this unputdownable noir tale of a mama’s boy psycho killer with a vendetta against a Miami cop. A cat-and-mouse tale with claws, Glitz is thrilling, frightening, explosive, surprising, everything a great thriller is supposed to be—superior crime fiction the genre’s late greats, John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, et al, would have been proud to call their own. Elmore Leonard, the creator of magnificent mayhem and truly unforgettable characters—like U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of the hit TV series Justified—is at his nail-biting, page-turning best with Glitz which Stephen King in the New York Times Book Review calls, “Smashing and satisfying.” Read more

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