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After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor' The Times
Dave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the business. Like them, he was tough, determined, and ruthless when the case demanded it. Unlike them, he was gay.
Joseph Hansen's groundbreaking novels follow Brandstetter as he investigates cases in which motives are murky, passions run high, and nothing is ever as simple as it looks. Set in 1970s and 80s California, the series is a fascinating portrait of a time and a place, with mysteries to match Chandler and Macdonald.
John Oats is dead; drowned in the treacherous waves of the Pacific. But was it accident, suicide, or murder? Between the mysteriously absent son, the bitter ex-wife and the current lover, there are plenty of people with reason to lie to Dave about what really happened that night - and why.
Dave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the business. Like them, he was tough, determined, and ruthless when the case demanded it. Unlike them, he was gay.
Joseph Hansen's groundbreaking novels follow Brandstetter as he investigates cases in which motives are murky, passions run high, and nothing is ever as simple as it looks. Set in 1970s and 80s California, the series is a fascinating portrait of a time and a place, with mysteries to match Chandler and Macdonald.
John Oats is dead; drowned in the treacherous waves of the Pacific. But was it accident, suicide, or murder? Between the mysteriously absent son, the bitter ex-wife and the current lover, there are plenty of people with reason to lie to Dave about what really happened that night - and why.
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PRAISE FOR THE DAVE BRANDSETTER NOVELS
"In an auspicious event for mystery readers, Syndicate is reprinting all 12 of Joseph Hansen s pioneering Dave Brandstetter novels over 12 months. Fadeout, the first in the series featuring the comfortably gay World War II vet and L.A. insurance investigator, was published in 1970. As Michael Nava points out in his insightful new introduction, that s when gay sex was a criminal act in 49 of the 50 states. Through grit and sheer talent, Hansen found a wide audience Crime fiction fans who don t know Hansen s work are in for a treat."
The Washington Post
Joseph Hansen is not only one of America s best mystery writers, he is a great American writer. Period. Full stop.
Michael Nava
"I can only applaud the republication of Joseph Hansen's Dave Brandstetter books. I've increasingly come to regard the phrase 'an important writer of crime fiction' as oxymoronic, but if one's going to use the label, Hansen's not an unreasonable bearer of it."
Lawrence Block
Incredible books, much overlooked.
Jeff Abbott
"The Brandstetter books are classics of the private eye genre... It's great to see them available again."
Peter Robinson
First published over fifty years ago now, Hansen s novels are not just clever and compelling stories, but to my mind they are also a feat of incredible bravery. I wish I d discovered him sooner.
Russ Thomas, CrimeReads
Hansen is one of the best we have [He] knows how to tell a tough, unsentimental, fast-moving story in an exceptionally urbane literary style.
New York Times Book Review
After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor.
The Times (London)
Mr. Hansen is an excellent craftsman, a compelling writer.
The New Yorker
Apart from its virtues as fiction, Hansen s Early Graves is a field correspondent s breathtaking dispatch from a community in the midst of disaster.
Time
Read in the order written, [the Brandstetter mysteries] are remarkably linked through symbol, incident, and character, to the point that one sees them as a single, multi-volume novel, by which one may learn a great deal about what it means to be homosexual and male in modern America.
The New Republic
Hansen is quite simply the most exciting and effective writer of the classic California private-eye novel working today.
Los Angeles Times
No one in the history of the detective novel has had the daring to do what Joseph Hansen has done: make his private eye a homosexual who is both a first-rate investigator and one of the most interest series characters in the history of the genre.
David Geherin, The American Private Eye
The first thing I ever read by Joseph Hansen was Fadeout (1970). It s the seminal novel in a mystery series about a smart, tough, uncompromising insurance investigator by the name of David Brandstetter. He is a Korean War vet and ruggedly masculine. He s educated, principled, compassionate but willing and able to use violence when nothing else works. He represents the (then) new breed of PI the post World War II private investigator. There are no bottles of rye in Dave s desk, there are no sleazy secrets in his past, and the dames don t much tend to throw themselves at him. He is neither tarnished nor afraid. Oh, and one other thing. He s gay . He was not the first gay detective to hit mainstream crime fiction, but he was the first normal gay detective, and that as the poet said has made all the difference.
Josh Lanyon, from The Golden Age of Gay Fiction
"In an auspicious event for mystery readers, Syndicate is reprinting all 12 of Joseph Hansen s pioneering Dave Brandstetter novels over 12 months. Fadeout, the first in the series featuring the comfortably gay World War II vet and L.A. insurance investigator, was published in 1970. As Michael Nava points out in his insightful new introduction, that s when gay sex was a criminal act in 49 of the 50 states. Through grit and sheer talent, Hansen found a wide audience Crime fiction fans who don t know Hansen s work are in for a treat."
The Washington Post
Joseph Hansen is not only one of America s best mystery writers, he is a great American writer. Period. Full stop.
Michael Nava
"I can only applaud the republication of Joseph Hansen's Dave Brandstetter books. I've increasingly come to regard the phrase 'an important writer of crime fiction' as oxymoronic, but if one's going to use the label, Hansen's not an unreasonable bearer of it."
Lawrence Block
Incredible books, much overlooked.
Jeff Abbott
"The Brandstetter books are classics of the private eye genre... It's great to see them available again."
Peter Robinson
First published over fifty years ago now, Hansen s novels are not just clever and compelling stories, but to my mind they are also a feat of incredible bravery. I wish I d discovered him sooner.
Russ Thomas, CrimeReads
Hansen is one of the best we have [He] knows how to tell a tough, unsentimental, fast-moving story in an exceptionally urbane literary style.
New York Times Book Review
After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor.
The Times (London)
Mr. Hansen is an excellent craftsman, a compelling writer.
The New Yorker
Apart from its virtues as fiction, Hansen s Early Graves is a field correspondent s breathtaking dispatch from a community in the midst of disaster.
Time
Read in the order written, [the Brandstetter mysteries] are remarkably linked through symbol, incident, and character, to the point that one sees them as a single, multi-volume novel, by which one may learn a great deal about what it means to be homosexual and male in modern America.
The New Republic
Hansen is quite simply the most exciting and effective writer of the classic California private-eye novel working today.
Los Angeles Times
No one in the history of the detective novel has had the daring to do what Joseph Hansen has done: make his private eye a homosexual who is both a first-rate investigator and one of the most interest series characters in the history of the genre.
David Geherin, The American Private Eye
The first thing I ever read by Joseph Hansen was Fadeout (1970). It s the seminal novel in a mystery series about a smart, tough, uncompromising insurance investigator by the name of David Brandstetter. He is a Korean War vet and ruggedly masculine. He s educated, principled, compassionate but willing and able to use violence when nothing else works. He represents the (then) new breed of PI the post World War II private investigator. There are no bottles of rye in Dave s desk, there are no sleazy secrets in his past, and the dames don t much tend to throw themselves at him. He is neither tarnished nor afraid. Oh, and one other thing. He s gay . He was not the first gay detective to hit mainstream crime fiction, but he was the first normal gay detective, and that as the poet said has made all the difference.
Josh Lanyon, from The Golden Age of Gay Fiction