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Bury Me Deep Nominated for  LA Times Book Prize, Edgar and Hammett Awards

Bury Me Deep Year-End Picks and Top Ten Lists


Dark Family, a reappraisal of V.C. Andrews in The Believer

Profile in The Detroit News

"Death Becomes Them" in Newsweek

Bury Me Deep is an IndieBound Notable Book

Interview in Barnes & Noble Review.

Interview in Mystery News

Die a Little
Going Hollywood


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IndieBound: Independent Booksellers Around the Country

Contemporary Writers in the Noir/Hardboiled Tradition (and more)
Charles Ardai
Ace Atkins
Ray Banks
Mitchell Bartoy
Ken Bruen
Reed Farrel Coleman
Gabriel Cohen
Sean Doolittle
Christa Faust
Stona Fitch
Alison Gaylin
Joshua Gaylord
Sara Gran
Allan Guthrie
Vicki Hendricks
Naomi Hirahara
Charlie Huston
Laura Lippman
Craig McDonald
Eddie Muller
Jack Pendarvis
Scott Phillips
Tom Piccirilli

Cornelia Read
Sandra Scoppettone
SJ Rozan
Jason Starr
Jonathan Santlofer
Theresa Schwegel
Zoë Sharp
Peter Spiegelman
Anthony Neil Smith
Wallace Stroby
Duane Swierczynski
Daniel Woodrell

Hardboiled/Crime Fiction and Noir on the Web
Killer Books—books recommended by Independent Mystery Booksellers Association members
Hard Case Crime—Reprinting lost pulp classics and publishing new novels in the pulp tradition, all with glorious covers
Film Noir Foundation/Noir City Film Festival—a non-profit focused on the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of film noir and on preserving films in danger of being lost forever.
Noir Originals—Noir Zine, New Writers and more, overseen by superb noir novelist Allan Guthrie
Noir of the Week—Reviews and commentary written by noir fans. Also, visit on Facebook.
1947 Project—Crime reporting from 1947 Los Angeles, the year of the infamous Black Dahlia murder
On Bunker Hill—from the geniuses behind the 1947 Project. If you're interested in 1940s LA, stop here.
Eddie Muller—Film noir historian (the "czar of noir") and novelist (The Distance, Shadowboxer)
Hardboiled and Noir at Miskatonic University Press—includes active listserv and hardboiled slang dictionary, among other resources
Hardboiled and Detective Fiction—resource site compiled by William Marling, author of Hardboiled Fiction.
Thrilling Detective—all things private eye from the early days to the present, as well as new fiction
Mystery*File—Crime Fiction Research Journal

Blogs with a noir/crime fiction focus
The Rap Sheet
Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind—Premiere crime fiction portal
Crimespot—A one-stop portal to some of the best mystery-writing blogs, updated four times daily
Noircast—Brilliant hardboiled and noir podcasts
Woody Haut—blog of the terrific author of indispensable Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War; Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction; and Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood
Secret Dead Blog—by crime fiction author Duane Swierczynski
First Offenders—four mystery authors
Crime Beat Street—where regular joes can dish on their favorite hardboiled detectives