desayunoencama | DOUBLE by Muller/Pronzini

Even though I was more or less reading the series in order, I'd skipped reading DOUBLE, Marcia Muller's collaboration with her mystery-writing husband Bill Pronzini, featuring both of their best-known detectives, Sharon McCone and the "Nameless Detective" because I didn't like the gimmick, or the set-up (a convention of P.I.'s). I'd never read any of the Pronzini books, but... I don't know, something put me off about them. (I'm not much of a hardboiled reader.) Although his sections seemed fine enough. Not anything I'd go out of my way to look for, but readable enough, especially in the context.

But I was right in putting it off until I had gone through the rest of the series.

I was surprised at how sex-negative the book is. I otherwise like McCone's politics, especially as her morality has changed over the course of the book.

So it was especially unexpected to find such a kink-phobic book, especially since later McCone books don't seem to share this sensibility. Hopefully it's all Pronzini's fault.

Still, disappointing.

:-(