Modern Crime Fiction: The Noir Legacy in Winslow, Connelly, Burke, and Crais

The legacy of noir fiction, established by pioneers like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald, lives on in the work of four contemporary masters of crime fiction. Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, and Robert Crais have each taken elements of classic noir and transformed them for modern readers, creating