(originally posted on August 28, 2005)
Charles Willeford is dead and it's Just Not Fair. Granted, he's been gone almost twenty years, but here's someone who created one of the most memorably weird protagonists in the crime fiction canon and he only got to write about him four times (well five, if you count GRIMHAVEN.) It's a fitting conclusion for the series which managed to be an ode to Miami, a beacon light on blithe psychopaths everywhere, and even a touching tribute to families of all stripes. Now I guess I have to go through the backlist...
