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El Gavilan Author: Craig McDonald Published: December 18, 2011 by Tyrus Books Category: Crime Fiction Main Character: Tell Lyon, Able Hawk The first standalone from Edgar©, Anthony, Macavity and Gumshoe finalist Craig McDonald. The news is full of it: escalating tensions from illegal immigration; headless bodies hanging off bridges and bounties placed on lawmen on both sides of the border. New Austin, Ohio, is a town grappling with waves of undocumented workers who exert tremendous pressure on schools, police and city services. In the midst of the turmoil, three very different kinds of cops scramble to maintain control and impose order. Click for more info. |
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One True Sentence Author: Craig McDonald Published: February 16, 2011 by Minotaur Books Series Name: Hector Lassiter Category: Historical Crime Fiction, Thriller Main Character: Hector Lassiter, Ernest Hemingway, Brinke Devlin, Molly Wilder, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, William Carlos Williams, Ford Maddox Ford, Sylvia Beach
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Print the Legend Author: Craig McDonald Published: February 16, 2010 by Minotaur Books Series Name: Hector Lassiter Category: Historical Crime Fiction, Thriller Main Character: Hector Lassiter, Hannah Paulson, Mary Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway, Donovan Creedy, J. Edgar Hoover, James Hanrahan It was the shot heard 'round the world: On July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway died from a shotgun blast to the head. Click for more info. |
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Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life Author: Craig McDonald Published: May 15, 2009 by Bleak House Books Category: Nonfiction A collection of conversations with some of the foremost stylists and influential fiction writers working today. Authors featured include James Crumley, Elmore Leonard, James Sallis, Ken Bruen, Daniel Woodrell, James Ellroy, Craig Holden, Pete Dexter, Alistair MacLeod, Andrew Vachss, Max Allan Collins, Stephen J. Cannell, Randy Wayne White, Lee Child, Tom Russell and Kinky Friedman. Click for more info. |
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Toros & Torsos Author: Craig McDonald Published: November 15, 2008 by Bleak House Books Series Name: Hector Lassiter Category: Historical Crime Fiction, Noir, Humor Main Character: Hector Lassiter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth Hector Lassiter is a legendary crime novelist who writes what he lives and lives what he writes. But Hector frequently goes a step beyond, drawing friends and lovers into the tawdry and turbulent territory of his fiction. Now, the large-living pulp author has at last met his match in the ultimate performance artist: a phantom killer committed to the art of murder… a blood-thirsty provocateur who leaves a string of macabre tableaus modeled on famous works of surrealist painting and photography… Click for more info. |
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Head Games: A novel Author: Craig McDonald Published: September 1, 2007 by Bleak House Books Series Name: Hector Lassiter Category: Historical Crime Fiction, Thriller, Humor Main Character: Hector Lassiter, Bud Fiske In a dusty cantina on the far side of the Rio Grande, larger-than-life and recently widowed crime writer Hector Lassiter and Bud Fiske, a callow young poet sent by True Magazine to profile Hector, are handed a carpet bag. Inside they find the stolen head of Mexican general Francisco "Pancho" Villa—a long missing relic that may point the way to a fortune in lost treasure or a blood-and-thunder death... Click for more info. |
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