Free Sample: Liquid Smoke"Jeff Shelby's searing third Noah Braddock novel takes the San Diego surfer and PI into a heartbreaking, life-changing case of loss and discovery . . . Shelby pulls no punches in this raw confrontation between a stone-cold killer and a man pushed beyond the brink." — Publisher's Weekly
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Reed Farrel Coleman, author of the Moe Prager mystery series cites four major influences on his appreciation of crime fiction as a reader and writer.
By Raymond Chandler
It was when I was finished with this book that I knew I was put on this earth to write crime fiction.
By Dashiell Hammett
Showed me that you could discuss big themes in crime fiction as long as your work was entertaining.
Here is the first chapter of Lynn Kostoff's new novel, Late Rain.
