A list of Labor Day mysteries involving unions, tradesman, and workers...thanks to Mystery Fanfare for some additions to this year's list....For all of us little worker bees...a little murder...
Fiction -
For the Love of Mike by Rhys Bowen (Garment Workers)
White Hot by Sandra Brown (Labor Dispute)
Big Boned by Meg Cabot (Graduate Student Union)
Airframe by Michael Crichton (Union Trouble)
Cactus Blood by Lucha Corpi (Farm Workers' Union)
Third Strike by Philip Craig and William Tappley
(Steamship Authority Strike)
American Tabloid by James Ellroy (Teamsters)
LA Quartet by James Ellroy (Movie Unions)
Dead Reckoning by Patricia Hall (Union Strike)
The Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (IWW organizer & Strike Breaking)
A More Perfect Union by J.A. Jance (Iron Workers' Union)
As Dead As it Gets by Cady Kalian (Creative Artists' Union)
Death at the Old Hotel by Con Lehane (Hotel Workers' Union)
Any Given Day by Dennis Lehane (Police Union)
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke (Labor Union)
Death at Pullman by Frances McNamara (American Railway Union)
Conferences are Murder by Val McDermid (Journalists' Union)
A Bitter Feast by S. J. Rozan (Restaurant Workers' Union)
Some Cuts Never Heal by Timothy Sheard (Shop Steward)
Absolute Rage by Robert K. Tanenbaum (Coal Miners' Union)
The Porkchoppers by Ross Thomas (Politics & Unions)
Killy by Donald Westlake (Manufacturing Union)
Non-Fiction
American Lightning by Howard Blum (Labor Union)
Would love to add to this list please post comments below-
I read Black Water Rising really early on thanks to a friend who worked with the publisher. I really liked it. Very well written, in my opinion. It reminded me of all I felt when I read Dennis Lehane.
ReplyDeleteI'm new to your blog and I'm not very familiar with what kind of books your read (other than the title, of course), but...
ReplyDeleteI guess the Working Man (cozy) mysteries by L. T. Fawkes (Margo Pierce Dorksen) would fall under this? Terry Saltz is a pizza-delivery guy / carpenter... no unions involved that I recall though.
I said the Working Man Mysteries are cozies - that's how I've seen them referred to on a number of sites. I just wanted to add/correct that in some ways (language for instance) that may not be accurate.
ReplyDeletethank you for listing my novel Some Cuts Never Heal on your labor day list. Would you add my web site to your author sites? www.timsheard.com
ReplyDeleteThanks so very much, tim sheard