- Published: 18 July 2016
- ISBN: 9781784161583
- Imprint: Black Swan
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $29.99
The Last Good Kiss
- Published: 18 July 2016
- ISBN: 9781784161583
- Imprint: Black Swan
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $29.99
Crumley writes like an angel on speed
Time Out
The poet laureate of American hard-boiled literature, superior even to James Lee Burke in his ability to evoke extreme melancholy, gruesome violence and an acute sense of landscape
Guardian
Reading Crumley is like hurtling through an assault course...funny, salty and ruthless...one of the marvels of contemporary crime writing
Literary Review
Like James Ellroy, he is a master of American vernacular, turning tough-guy slang into something like poetry
Independent
James Crumley, a critically acclaimed crime novelist whose drug-infused, alcohol-soaked, profanity-laced, breathtakingly violent books swept the hard-boiled detective from the Raymond Chandler era into an amoral, utterly dissolute, apocalyptic post-Vietnam universe
New York Times
Crumley is the singular reason that a lot of today’s forty-something writers headed straight into crime fiction
Laura Lippman
Crumley is a brilliant purveyor of dialogue and a master of melancholy loneliness.
Marcel Berlins, The Times