This month we’ll be publishing BLOODLINE by Mark Billingham. Start reading the book that Gillian Flynn has called “chilling, moody, humane, and very, very smart,” and which George Pelecanos proclaimed “a boss performance, through and through.” PROLOGUE DEBBIE AND JASON “Come on, pigeon! Let’s go blow at the trains.” Debbie Mitchell tugs at her son’s [...]
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Canarsie and Westlake, Parker and Stark (and Me)
Jun 30, 2011 in Uncategorized
[The below first appears as an introduction to Butcher's Moon, republished in April 2011 by the University of Chicago Press, and is reprinted with the gracious permission of Lawrence Block. You can read his other intros for Backflash and Comeback here and here.] One night around the end of 1960 or the beginning of 1961, [...]
The Invisible Hero: A Conversation between Zoë Ferraris and David Corbett
Apr 04, 2011 in Books, Uncategorized, Writing
David Corbett is a former private investigator the acclaimed author of four novels, including the most recent Do They Know I’m Running?. Zoë Ferraris is the award-winning author of Finding Nouf and City of Veils. Here, they discuss how fiction can break down cultural stereotypes, making “strangers” recognizable and the role of the hero in [...]
