Today it’s Shamus Award winner IJ (Ingrid) Parker, author of the Sugawara Akitada series of mystery novels set in 11th century Japan. Here’s what she gave up:
My reading time is severely restricted by work, but even in a thin year there have been a number of outstanding books by such writers as Olen Steinhauer and Steven Torres. My own favorite subgenre, however, is the police procedural and since I had the pleasure of discovering a writer who was new to me and who impressed me enormously, my choice is Stuart McBride's COLD GRANITE, a page turner of a Scottish police procedural in the manner of Rankin, but with more humor and humanity. The protagonist, Logan McRae, recently wounded in the line of duty, becomes involved in a child murder case. The quality of this excellent novel sent me quickly to Amazon to order the next two: DYING LIGHT and BLOODSHOT (originally titled BROKEN SKIN in the UK). All three are highly recommended.
About IJ Parker, the New York Times recently said, "You couldn’t ask for a more gracious introduction to the exotic world of Imperial Japan than the stately historical novels of I. J. Parker."
Publisher Weekly said (in a starred review), “Parker's fourth Sugawara Akitada mystery (after 2006's Black Arrow), set in 11th-century Japan, manages to outplot its superb predecessors... The Shamus Award Parker won with her first Akitada short story may soon have company.”
Check out Ingrid’s website here.
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