I love a good crime book, but i’m bored of the cliche stuff. Nothing involving a secret millionaire murder or big mafia stuff. Something more day to day like a morally grey narrator and low level crime. I think it would be interesting to read something where the mc isn’t just a victim or a detective. Also kinda bored of murder mystery as a whole I’m looking for something much smaller scale crime wise, where the focus is more on world building and unique characters inner struggle.
by squezy-breezy
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The Corner by Richard Price is perfect for this – follows drug dealers and addicts in Baltimore, no big conspiracies just street level stuff with really complex characters 😂 Also try anything by Don Winslow, he writes amazing morally grey protagonists who aren’t cops or victims, just people caught up in smaller criminal world
you might like “Knockemstiff” by Donald Ray Pollock. it’s a collection of interconnected stories set in a small ohio town, full of morally messy characters just trying to survive. no detectives, no millionaires, just people caught up in bad situations of their own making. the writing is raw and the characters feel real in a way that’s hard to shake off.