Baldacci-lately

I loved his early stuff.
Puller, Robie, Sullivan and Maxwell and the Camel Club.

I’m reading Archer right now.

Not a bad story but reads like a sappy old fashioned detective book.

“She had legs that would cause a boxer’s knees to buckle and her lips were as lush as a cherry tomato and ripe for picking “

I made that up but you get the idea.

I stopped reading him when he branched off into half a dozen different series, all ongoing at the same time. Not worth the effort.

That’s where he lost me too. My favorites were the King/Maxwell series and the Camel Club. Trying to get into the Amos Decker one but the first book didn’t really grab me that much.

**Spoiler**
The whole hermaphrodite deal was weird

Liked the Atlee Pine series. Disliked the Archer books. As someone posted, too sappy. Read the first two, will not read the 3rd one.

I liked the first Archer book enough to read the second. I enjoyed Archer’s back story and had hopes for a decent series but found the second one WAY too 40s pulp fiction and noir for my tastes. YMMV of course.

Crazy that this thread popped up. I was at the bookstore earlier today looking for something new and blindly bought a baldacci knowing pretty much nothign about the guy. I've heard of his name before but don't know anythign about his works. I ended up buying Camel Club since the name sounded familiar and I thought I recognized it.

AFter a very brief wiki search he's got 7 or 8 differnet series then has some standalones. In yalls opnions what are some of the better series, and what are some of the best standalones? If I enjoy CC I'll definitely be looking to either continue the series or maybe try a standalone.

Camel club is by far my favorite series that he's written