Elmore Leonard

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How American crime novelist Peter Leonard is stepping out from the shadow of his father

12 Jan 2011

Son of Elmore Leonard publishes new book All He Saw Was the Girl

Peter Leonard wants to escape from Detroit. Not literally. The 59-year-old American crime novelist actually resides 30 miles northwest in Birmingham, where he lives very happily with his wife and four kids. Instead, Leonard wants to flee Michigan…

Trust Me by Peter Leonard

3 Sep 20093 stars

Elmore's son serves up his second crime thriller

Having crime-writing legend Elmore Leonard as your dad is a lot to live up to, but with this bristling second fiction outing, son Peter almost keeps up the family name. Set in Detroit, with a cast of hapless, amoral baddies, his relentlessly-paced noir…

3.10 to Yuma

6 Sep 20074 stars

Pitting Russell Crowe and Christian Bale head-to-head guarantees a bout of intense, tortured manliness and this glowering, gripping remake of Delmer Daves’s 1957 Western (adapted from an Elmore Leonard short story) practically fires rounds of solid…