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Rex Burns

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Born

in San Diego, CA, The United States

Website

https://www.rexburns.com/

Genre

Mystery, Thriller, Historical Fiction

Influences

A variety of good writers: Simenon, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner ...more

Member Since

November 2011

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Rex Burns (b. 1935) is the author of numerous thrillers set in and around Denver, Colorado. Born in California, he served in the Marine Corps and attended Stanford University and the University of Minnesota before becoming a writer. His Edgar Award–winning first novel, The Alvarez Journal (1975), introduced Gabe Wager, a Denver police detective first working in an organized crime unit, then in homicide. Burns continued this hardboiled series through ten more novels, concluding it with 1997’s The Leaning Land. His second series (3 volumes) features Devlin Kirk and "Bunch" Bunchcroft, a private investigator series set in Colorado. The third series, beginning in 2013, follows the adventures of a father/daughter private detective team. The firs ...more

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Average rating: 3.41 · 311 ratings · 69 reviews · 48 distinct works

	The Alvarez Journal (Gabe Wager #1) 3.04 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1976 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crude Carrier 3.66 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crime Classics: The Mystery Story from Poe to the Present by Rex Burns (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mary Rose Sullivan (Editor) 3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Avenging Angel (The Gabe Wager Novels) 3.36 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1983 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suicide Season 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1987 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Farnsworth Score (The Gabe Wager Novels) 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1993 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ground Money (Gabe Wager #7) 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1986 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strip Search (The Gabe Wager Novels) 3.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1984 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speak for the Dead (The Gabe Wager Novels) 3.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1979 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Body Slam 3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I'm not sure which of the twenty or thirty "Rex Burns" in the country sent in reviews attributed to me, but please know that those two-star reviews of very good writers are not mine. Perhaps there should be a way to verify submitted reviews to Goodreads??

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Series by Rex Burns

Gabe Wager (11 books)
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3.23 avg rating — 176 ratings

Devlin Kirk (3 books)
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3.54 avg rating — 37 ratings

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