Ray Ring
American journalist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ray Ring is an American novelist and journalist. Ring has been based in the American West since the 1970s, with stints in Arizona, Colorado and Montana. Novels Montana Blues is an unusual mystery/thriller about a determined Black man and a spirited White woman who face racial violence on a spectacular landscape. A sample review in The Arizona Daily Star said it's a “compulsively readable new thriller … Ring’s flair for fully-realized characters and smart dialog is on display here; combined with fast-paced action, this is propulsive storytelling that will keep you on the edge of your seat.”Arizona Kiss is a noir suspense/thriller about a cynical Arizona journalist who investigates illegal dogfighting. Literary novelist Barbara Kingsolver praised Arizona Kiss for exploring "the shadowy borderlands between cynicism and amorality, and the ways violence can detonate a psyche. This is a rattlesnake of a book: its plot curves and coils and finally strikes, unforgettably." A review in Publishers Weekly described Arizona Kiss as a "steamy, pitiless, tough-as-whipcord thriller ... a rousing experience." The Times Literary Supplement, in London, described the novel as "a well-crafted tale of sexual obsession, treachery and violence ... in its own distinctive shade of noir." A passage from Arizona Kiss describing the journalist's role was excerpted in Columbia Journalism Review, and The National Council for the Training of Journalists, based in England, put Arizona Kiss on its list of "Eight works of fiction about life as a reporter that you should read."Telluride Smile . Bloomsbury Review offered praise: "This campy first novel takes every trick in the standard formula gumshoe plot and stands them on their head for comic effect. Ring's tongue-in-cheek, alter ego thought experiment pits one Henry Dyer, a retired Arizona fish and game officer, against a host of seemingly insurmountable odds trying to pass themselves off as a popular Colorado ski resort. The result is a three-ring sideshow in the snow ..." The Denver Post described Telluride Smile as "a wonderfully bittersweet and entertaining satire of the state we all know and love." Newsday said, "In Telluride Smile ... the subject of the examination -- the behavior of affluent Americans in a modern ski resort -- is rendered flawlessly."Peregrine Dream continued Henry Dyer, the eccentric private eye introduced in Telluride Smile, with a wildlife-related murder case set in Tucson. Kirkus Reviews praised Peregrine Dream as "a wildlife story with more than its ideals going for it: Ring's sharp characterizations, vivid nature descriptions, and love of the land are wrapped up smartly in a well-conceived plot. A strong addition to the hard-boiled camp." The San Francisco Chronicle described the novel as "a stylized detective mystery in the tradition of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler -- fast-paced and sensuous, and told in a clipped, sarcastic voice. It is a tightly woven cloth of plots, subplots and sub-subplots; within the principal mystery are a dozen smaller mysteries ... What Ring offers is really a fable, a moody fable of the American West. Its conflicts are the conflicts that have defined the region for a century."
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