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DEAD GIRL BLUES—good news and, well…
My new book is off to an explosive start, and has taken only a week to reach 19 reviews on Amazon. I'd like to share a favorite, but it strikes me as only fair to balance it off with the words of a reader whose judgment is a good deal less laudatory. So let's begin...
“Touched in equal parts with genius and sin…”
Ethan Iverson, when he's not playing the piano, is apt to be reading crime fiction—and writing eloquently and incisively about it. (His new survey of Rex Stout's body of work is remarkable.) Here's what he's now posted: "One of the new best novels I’ve read in years...
More than you need to know about DEAD GIRL BLUES:
First of all, let me tell you that the book is off to a genuinely gratifying start. Self-publishing anything recalls what Don Marquis said of bringing out a volume of poetry—it’s like dropping a rose petal into the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. But in the...
Bookreporter on DEAD GIRL BLUES
...a brilliant hybrid of a crime novel and first-person psychological study where the subject attempts --- not always successfully --- to analyze himself. In the meantime, there is a clock that ticks faintly in the background across the years and threatens to chime....