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Her books include Day Four, The Three, and most recently, Missing Person, a novel about a group of amateur detectives infiltrated by the sadistic killer whose crimes they’re investigating.
At CrimeReads, Lotz tagged eight novels featuring unlikely amateur detectives, including:
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The Caveman’s Valentine, by George Dawes GreenRead about the other entries on the list.
The protagonist, Romulus Ledbetter, once a brilliant pianist, now struggles with mental health issues and lives in a cave in a New York park. When the frozen body of a photographer’s model is found outside his cave, he decides to conduct his own deeply unconventional investigation. Original and lyrical.
--Marshal Zeringue