The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do

A Bayou Phillip Marlowe? Not quite, but enough snappy one-liners to keep the plots (much less complicated than a Marlowe) rolling nicely along.Evocative atmosphere evoked, along with a repertory cast of local characters just this side of caricature. But there's also real insight and a skilful use of language. Situations, people and their motivations sharply observed. Roll on the Netflix adaptation.

I managed to get through the second story, but it was touch and go. The incessant wise cracking of practically every character needed to be toned down a little for my taste. It only served to distance the storyline from any sort of relatable reality; can't anyone just convey something without trying to be cute about it?

The best book I’ve read this year so far, and a great introduction to this author’s work. Gritty, great stories and dialogue which crackles off the page as you read the book.Flawed heroes, outlandish characters, fantastic atmosphere, all you’d expect from Southern Noir. I think it was recommended because I’d read The Devil All the Time, but it also occupies the same territory as James Lee Burke and John Connolly’s Every Dead Thing.

Good condition, good book

Grim and gripping! If you enjoyed 'Winter's Bone', you will find this book unputdownable.

Steamy hot Louisiana, mykind of book.

Excellent

What an amazing book - why have I never found the author before? Very readable and engrossing trilogy and I now intend to find all of Woodrell's books