Recs?

[seekingferret]

I've been reading Elmore Leonard lately and was wondering if people had recommendations for authors of color in a similar vein- gritty settings, colorful characters, a bit of a light touch? Other writers in a broadly similar vein might be Florida Crime writers like Carl Hiaasen or John MacDonald. Doesn't need to be crime stories, though, if you feel it's similar in other ways.

Comments

[tim]

Walter Mosley, although I couldn't get into the book of his I started reading.

[serene]

A friend recommended Eric Jerome Dickey to me because I like Mosley, but I haven't read him yet: http://www.ericjeromedickey.com/