Phillip Thompson

Crime Fiction writer

Otto Penzler: By the Book: The mystery fiction editor and founder of the Mysterious Press says the last book that surprised him was “Gone Girl,” by Gillian Flynn: “I never saw it coming.” Author Dennis Lehane on crime novels, race in America and researching history: “Mystic River,” “Shutter Island,” and coming in December, “Live By Night” are …

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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 …

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