| El
Niño one
of Michael Connelly's five favorite
legal thrillers. Entertainment
Weekly lists El Niño
as one of Michael Connelly's Five Favorite
legal Thrillers. "Obscure but beautiful—"
he calls it, "when the law is a
hurtful thing." Click
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Mercedes Lambert finds a global audience.
All 4 books by Mercedes Lambert will
be published by Hayakawa Books in Japan;
the first two Mercedes Lambert Books
will be published by Giulio Einaudi
Editore in Italy. These are extremely
prestigious publishers who will extend
the works of Mercedes Lambert to new
readers worldwide.
Cover art for the international editions
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Dogtown/Soultown
omnibus issued from Stark House Press.
The
first two Whitney Logan mysteries—Dogtown
and Soultown—are now
available in a single edition with an
introduction by acclaimed crime/noir
author Ken
Bruen and an afterword by Mercedes
Lambert's longtime friend and literary
executor Lucas Crown. Following on the
heels of Ghosttown, this marks
the first time that the complete Dogtown
trilogy will be in print.
Click
here to view the entire cover
(PDF) of the Stark House reprint edition. |
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"HARD
LUCKTOWN: Mercedes Lambert's long-lost
masterpiece" is
the title of Ariel Swartley's
review of Ghosttown in the
September 2007 issue of Los
Angeles magazine.
She calls it the best book in the
series. "...It shouldn't have
been her last...few other novels have
caught L.A.'s bipolar essence so well."
The
review accompanies a feature article
on Mercedes lambert called "Final
Draft" by her longtime friend
and literary executor Lucas Crown.
Click
here to read the Los Angeles
magazine article. Click
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| Master
of hard-boiled exists with a blast.
The Denver Post called Ghosttown
"...a fine addition to the hard-boiled
genre...." Robin Vidimos goes on to acknowledge
that "Munson/Lambert has an exceptional
gift for bringing readers into the realities
of her characters and their streets."
Click
here to read the entire review. |
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| High-Heeled
Gumshoe. In her weekly (Tuesday)
blog at CriminalBrief.com, mystery author
Melodie Johnson Howe highly recomends Ghosttown.
"It has everything that a good mystery,
and a good writer has to offer..." says
the author who Ellery Queen Magazine called
one of the genre's best short story writers
and novelists. Read Melodie's blog entry here
or visit her website at www.melodiejohnsonhowe.com. |
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| Between
the lines: Talented writer's last book.
Allen Pierleoni of the Sacramento
Bee devoted his weekly book
column on August 19 to Mercedes Lambert and
the publication of Ghosttown. Click
here to view the column. |
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| Los
Angeles Times: "Epilogue to the
noir life of an L.A. writer."
On Sunday, August 5, 2007, the Los
Angeles Times ran a feature article
on Mercedes Lambert. Scott Timberg, in his
lengthy profile on the author and the reinterest
in her books, subtitled his story: "The
publishing world left gutsy novelist Mercedes
Lambert for dead. Now her work gets a second
chance." To read the article on the Times
website, click
here. |
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| Making
the case for Mercedes Lambert. Sarah
Weinman reviewed Ghosttown for the
Los Angeles Times
on August 14. Click
here to read the review. |
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| Publishers
Weekly calls Ghosttown "powerful,"
and adds "...memorable characters, sharp
dialogue and ever-increasing mood of uncertainty,
fear and menace, the narrative builds to a
startling and fantastical conclusion."
Read review. |
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Ken
Bruen to introduce Dogtown/Soultown.
Ken Bruen has agreed to contribute an
introduction to the Stark House Spring
2008 release of Mercedes Lambert's Dogtown/Soultown
omnibus. Ken is a widely regarded author
of hard-boiled and noir crime fiction.
Author of over 20 novels and numerous
stories, Ken Bruen was a finalist for
the Edgar, Barry, and Macavity Awards.
In 2003, Ken was presented with the
Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers
of America for The Guards.
Ken earned a doctorate from Trinity
College Dublin in metaphysics. He has
travelled extensively, teaching English
in many countries. Ken makes his home
in Galway, Ireland.
Click
here to visit Ken's website. |
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