Very pleased to have been given this bit of news from Brash Books: “Outside The Law is a winner in the tradition of Justified and Walking Tall. There’s right and there’s wrong and the no man’s land in between. Thompson explores them all, but it’s the reader who gets the big payoff in the end.” –Reed Farrel Coleman, New York …
Via Crime Fiction Lover: Christa Faust and Gary Phillips interviewed Deep South Crime: Author writes fictional tale about sensational 1932 Natchez crime — On a 1997 book tour stop in Natchez (Miss.), Michael Llewellyn said he was so intrigued by the city’s rich history that he hoped to write a book some day. Why Banned Books …
Via Crime Fiction Lover: 10 OF THE BEST PULP CRIME BOOKS — The pulp fiction phenomenon began early in the 20th century and its heyday was in the 1920s and 30s when hundreds upon hundreds of quickly written titles were released each year promising adventure, danger and romance for anyone brave enough to open up the …
A round-up of links that interest me … maybe you, too, as we kick off Banned Books Week. From CrimeSpree: J. A. Jance’s Downfall reviewed Two Down & Out Books Titles Win Major Literary Awards during Bouchercon 2016: Earlier this month, Down & Out Books celebrated two major literary award wins during the annual Bouchercon in New …
Items of interest from the world of crime fiction: Via Crime Fiction Lover: Pick, the Spade and the Crow by Bill Roger is one of our new crime releases this week. ‘The Night Of’ Couldn’t Outrun Its Genre : The Night Of finale delivered the ultimate ambiguous, unsatisfying, no-one’s-life-is-better-for-this-except-the-cat’s ending we all should’ve expected. And to get there, …
More from the world of crime fiction… Comic book legend Chuck Dixon has written a crime novel and it’s set in Philadelphia. Shrinkage is a about a shoplifter named Jeff who gets involved in a series of escalating adventures in Dixon’s take on the City of Brotherly Love in the 1970s. Along the Edge …
A round-up of stuff that interests me … in no particular order Graeme Macrae Burnet on ‘His Bloody Project,’ Crime Writing and Eloquent Murderers When Graeme Macrae Burnet’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted novel “His Bloody Project” was first released, it had an initial print run of just 1,500 copies. Recommended Read (courtesy of …
It’s here at last … the final cover for my latest novel, Outside the Law, coming in February from Brash Books. Feel free to leave a comment.
One of the most enduring mythologies in American culture is that of the romanticized gangster — especially the reckless bank robber of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. In this myth, a down-and-outer from the lower castes of our society brazenly lands a mighty blow against The Man (exemplified by the U.S. banking system), …
Phillip Thompson 