Nemesis
A Nameless Detective Novel

#37 in the Nameless Detective series. Finalist 2014 Shamus Award for Best Novel. In this 2013 series entry from author Pronzini, Nameless' wife Kerry has yet to fully recover from the events in Hellbox (2012) and as a result Nameless is taking a leave of absence and letting his associates run the ag......more

Bill Pronzini's "Nameless Detective" and the long-running mystery series featuring him are treasures. The quality has varied over nearly 40 books but even lesser efforts can be appreciated for the plotting and dialogue, the evolution of the main characters, the continual references to the past. In t......more

Pronzini never fails to keep you engaged. Strong characters, strong plot and mystery, strong sense of place. This particular book is told from three different viewpoints. The technique works very well. The part of the book involving Nameless and Kerry is kind of a minor sub-plot, but no matter. It f......more

Is there a better living writer of the hard-boiled detective novel than Bill Pronzini? I don't think so. His writing is clear, his characters are fresh, his situations are true and his stories are gripping. I had to stay up last night to finish this up. In this latest installment, we get to follow t......more

When this one started I through it was going to be an obvious set up, when the agency was hired by a distraught women who is being blackmailed. Then it switched to an even more obvious he said/she said. But I should have known better. With Bill mostly out of the first half (it seems like he, Pronzin......more