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Don't miss Robert Ward's appearance,
playing himself,
Four Kinds of Rain (St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006) Nominated for the Hammett Prize by the International Association of Crime Writers. One of the 10 Best Mysteries of the Year -Otto Penzler "Fiercely funny...as sharp and nasty as a paper cut." -Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Starred Review. "Superior noir novel...The twists come fast and furious." -Publishers Weekly "An intriguingly dark and delightful noir novel...as black as a chain smoker's lungs, but...deviously funny" -David J. Montgomery, Philadelphia City Paper "Highly entertaining new twist to the bumbling-criminal subgenre." -Booklist "Four Kinds of Rain is a great read. Robert Ward has created a darkly comic masterpiece that keeps you thinking long after the last page is turned." -Michael Connelly "Robert Ward's dark comic approach shines once again...[He] keeps Four Kinds of Rain full of challenging, plausible surprises, leading to a fittingly noir ending" -Oline Cogdill, South Florida Sun-Sentinel "Four Kinds of Rain is feverish and funny, an end-of-the-dream novel that could only have come from the very talented, slightly twisted mind of Robert Ward." -George Pelecanos Pick of the Week. "This may well be one of the most plausible noir novels I've read in some time as Ward takes his psychiatrist protagonist down what seems to be an innocent path, only to morph into something scarier and more calamitous with every plot turn." -Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind "Noir at its best." -T. Jefferson Parker Tip of the Ice Pick Award Winner -Books-A-Million "[Robert Ward] came back to the crime novel with a vengeance, producing a funny and nihilistic...story of frustration, anger, helplessness, and revenge. " -Otto Penzler, New York Sun "Terrific writing...makes this book fly by...sure to keep you up way past your bedtime." -NPR "Noir for the lost. Heartbreaking, hilarious and oh so beautifully written. A renegade prose poem to the loss and regret we carry like the best rock 'n roll music, full of beauty and despair with the gonzo gift of sheer immediacy." -Ken Bruen Read Robert Ward's Q&A with Publishers Weekly
Red Baker (St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006, reprint) - With a new introduction by Michael Connelly "Mr. Ward writes with a directness and sincerity that is increasingly rare in these days of fashionable irony and high-tech literary pyrotechnics...The reader...really does want to know what happens." -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "A truly awesome achievement, a paean of power and intensity directed toward a too often forgotten group, those American refugees so cruelly displaced by the raw greed and economic convulsions in the heavy steel industry. Red Baker is a remarkable novel." -James Crumley "They may not build 'em like they used to, but Red Baker is a product that any working fella can damn well be proud of." -Time
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