hlessig (FADEAWAY JOE is out now!) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Debut novel, FADEAWAY JOE, out 8/22 from Crooked Lane Books. Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir, Guns + Tacos. #amwriting, #writingcommunity, #crimefiction

Everybody Knows
Jordan Harper
@BrettWLovell @ThatJustinLee @jordan_harper I have Everybody Knows on my tbr pile, but not The Last King Of California. Need to get that. I’ve been buying prison cookbooks, so I need some real reading in my life.
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
When the Women Come Out to Dance: Stories
Elmore Leonard
Very late to the party on this one, but what a great collection of short stories. Elmore Leonard meets Raymond Carver is not hype. Each one is a gem. Gotta read the novels now.@todgoldberg https://t.co/ahCMtN1OK2
Paperback, 2020
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dolphin Junction: Stories
Mick Herron
@MEProctor3 I have to pick up the novels. I have a Mick Herron short story collection, "Dolphin Junction," on my TBR pile and am a couple of episodes into Slow Horses, which is great.
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fantasticland
Mike Bockoven
@BlackBeacons Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven. An amusement park isolated in a hurricane compels the employees to form tribes. Hint: Don’t mess with the shop girls.
Paperback, 2018
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fadeaway Joe
Hugh Lessig
My debut novel, Fadeaway Joe, comes out in August, and now I have this fancy website to go with it! https://t.co/Awi2dyUhbo
Hardcover, 2023
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Last Good Kiss
James Crumley
@Nickyshearsby22 The Last Good Kiss, James Crumley. “When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sanoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.”
Paperback, 1988
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love: Stories
Raymond Carver
Very late to the party on this one, but what a great collection of short stories. Elmore Leonard meets Raymond Carver is not hype. Each one is a gem. Gotta read the novels now.@todgoldberg https://t.co/ahCMtN1OK2
Paperback, 1989
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book