LAWRENCE
BLOCK RETURNS WITH BRAND NEW NOVEL!
Hard
Case Crime to Publish THE GIRL WITH THE DEEP BLUE EYES
Lawrence
Block, the acclaimed author of more than 100 novels including A WALK AMONG THE
TOMBSTONES (recently adapted as a feature film starring Liam Neeson), will
publish a brand new novel in 2015 through Hard Case Crime, the award-winning
line of vintage-style crime fiction from editor Charles Ardai and publisher
Titan Books. THE GIRL WITH THE DEEP BLUE EYES tells the story of a former New
York police officer, now working as a private eye in Florida, who gets drawn
into the web of a local wife who’s looking for a hit man to help her become a
widow. Block has described the book as “a down-and-dirty noir thriller,
characterized by my Hollywood agent as ‘James M. Cain on Viagra.’ ”
The
novel, which will be published in hardcover in September 2015 (World English),
is Block’s eleventh with Hard Case Crime. The previous ten include Hard Case
Crime’s very first book, GRIFTER’S GAME; the erotic suspense novel GETTING OFF;
the bestselling movie tie-in edition of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES; and the
classic noir con-man novel THE GIRL WITH THE LONG GREEN HEART. For more than a
decade, Block has consistently been one of Hard Case Crime’s most popular
authors, in addition to being perhaps the most highly decorated crime writer
alive. Among many other honors, Block has won the Edgar Allan Poe Award
multiple times and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America,
the organization’s highest recognition (previous Grand Masters have included
Agatha Christie, Graham Greene, Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen King, and James M.
Cain).
“Lawrence
Block is, hands down, my favorite crime writer, and it is a privilege to
publish his new novel,” said Charles Ardai. “This is a dark, violent, steamy,
disturbing story about a pair of characters who will haunt you long after the
book ends.”
About
Hard Case Crime
Called
“the best new American publisher to appear in the last decade” by Neal Pollack
in The Stranger, Hard Case Crime has been nominated for and/or won numerous
honors since its inception including the Edgar, the Shamus, the Anthony, the
Barry, and the Spinetingler Award. The series’ books have been adapted for
television and film, with two features currently in development at Universal
Pictures, a TV series based on Max Allan Collins’ Quarry novels in development
by Cinemax, and the TV series Haven in its fifth season on SyFy. Recent Hard
Case Crime titles include Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestseller, Joyland;
James M. Cain’s lost final novel, The Cocktail Waitress; eight lost novels
written by Michael Crichton under the pseudonym “John Lange”; and Brainquake,
the final novel of writer/filmmaker Samuel Fuller. Hard Case Crime is published
through a collaboration between Winterfall LLC and Titan Publishing
Group. www.hardcasecrime.com
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