Author
Kenneth Abel
Kenneth Abel is the American crime writer whose Bayou and Cold Steel Rain were both shortlisted for the Edgar in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The Louisiana atmosphere and the small-town procedural patience are why his books still get pressed into people's hands.
Reviews
5
Books on file
5
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Years active
1994-2009
Reviewed
Our reviews of Kenneth Abel's work
Cold Steel Rain
by Kenneth Abel
The first Danny Chaisson novel. Kenneth Abel writing New Orleans politics and corruption with a New Orleans-specific moral exhaustion you cannot fake.
The Burying Field
by Kenneth Abel
The second Danny Chaisson novel. Kenneth Abel deepening the Louisiana political world with a parish-corruption investigation that earns its weight.
Down in the Flood
by Kenneth Abel
The third Danny Chaisson novel. Kenneth Abel writing Hurricane Katrina before Katrina happened.
Bait
by Kenneth Abel
A standalone from Kenneth Abel. New Orleans-adjacent crime fiction outside the Danny Chaisson series. Still that particular tired-Louisiana voice.
The Blue Wall
by Kenneth Abel
Another Kenneth Abel standalone. NYPD-adjacent crime fiction with the corruption layer treated as a moral problem rather than a thriller device.
The takes
What we have said about Kenneth Abel
The first Danny Chaisson novel. Kenneth Abel writing New Orleans politics and corruption with a New Orleans-specific moral exhaustion you cannot fake.
The third Danny Chaisson novel. Kenneth Abel writing Hurricane Katrina before Katrina happened.
The second Danny Chaisson novel. Kenneth Abel deepening the Louisiana political world with a parish-corruption investigation that earns its weight.
A standalone from Kenneth Abel. New Orleans-adjacent crime fiction outside the Danny Chaisson series. Still that particular tired-Louisiana voice.
Another Kenneth Abel standalone. NYPD-adjacent crime fiction with the corruption layer treated as a moral problem rather than a thriller device.