George P. Pelecanos (born 18 Feb 1957)[1] is an American author. Many of his works are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. He is also a film and television producer and a television writer. He worked extensively on the HBO series The Wire. Pelecanos's early novels were written in the first person voice of Nick Stefanos, a Greek D.C. resident and sometime private investigator. After the success of his first four novels, the Stefanos-narrated A Firing Offense, Nick's Trip, and Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go, and the non-series (though some characters do cross over) Shoedog, Pelecanos switched his narrative style considerably and expanded the scope of his fiction with his D.C. Quartet. He has commented that he did not feel he had the ability to be this ambitious earlier in his career. The quartet, often compared to James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet, spanned several decades and communities within the changing population of Washington. Now writing in the third person, Pelecanos relegated Stefanos to a supporting character and introduced his first "salt and pepper" team of crime fighters, Dimitri Karras and Marcus Clay.
My Opinion: I have found his books very, very interesting and have skipped around among his various series. I will continue to read his work. I strongly recommend his work.
Here is a list of his novels:
Shoedog (1994). ISBN 0312110618 X
Drama City (2005). ISBN 0316608211 X
The Night Gardener (2006). ISBN 978-0316156509 X
The Turnaround (2008). ISBN 978-0316156479 X
The Way Home (2009).[38] ISBN 978-0316156493 x
the man who came uptown
All the pieces Matter
Nick Stefanos Series[edit]
D.C. Quartet Series[edit]
The Big Blowdown (1996). ISBN 0312142846 X
King Suckerman (1997). ISBN 0316695904 X
The Sweet Forever (1998). ISBN 0316691097 X
Shame the Devil (2000). ISBN 0316695238 X
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn Series[edit]
Right as Rain (2001). ISBN 031669526 X
Hell to Pay (2002). ISBN 0316695068 X
Soul Circus (2003). ISBN 0316608432 X
Hard Revolution (2004). ISBN 0316608971 X
What It Was (2012). ISBN 978-0316209533
Spero Lucas Series[edit]
The Cut (2011).[39] ISBN 978-0316078429
The Double (2013).[40] ISBN 978-0316078399 X
To learn more about this author, go to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pelecanos