Craig McDonald's Books
Feb.15.2011
Paris, 1924
The place "where the 20th Century was," as Gertrude Stein put it.
A city teeming with would-be poets, writers, painters and publishers...the Lost Generation.
Hector Lassiter, fledgling author and best friend of Ernest Hemingway, is crossing the Pont Neuf when he hears a body fall into the icy Seine — the first in a string of brutal murders of literary...
Feb.16.2010
It's 1965: two men have come to Idaho to confront the widow Hemingway—men who have doubts about the true circumstances of Hemingway's death. One is crime novelist Hector Lassiter, the oldest and best of Hem's friends...the last man standing of the Lost Generation. Hector has heard intimations of some surviving Hemingway manuscripts: a "lost" chapter of A Moveable Feast...
May.12.2009
A collection of conversations with some of the foremost stylists and influential fiction writers working today. Authors featured include James Crumley, Elmore Leonard, James Sallis, Ken Bruen, Daniel Woodrell, James Ellroy, Craig Holden and Pete Dexter, among many others.
CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION
PART I
THE LEGENDS
James Crumley: The Right Madness
Elmore Leonard: Ten Rules
PART...
Sep.15.2008
Hector Lassiter is a legendary crime novelist who writes what he lives and lives what he writes. But Hector frequently goes a step beyond, drawing friends and lovers into the tawdry and turbulent territory of his fiction. Now, the large-living pulp author has at last met his match in the ultimate performance artist: a phantom killer committed to the art of murder… a blood-...
Feb.25.2008
Anthology of the year's best crime fiction and mystery stories edited by Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg. Contributors include James W. Hall, Nancy Pickard, Jeffrey Deaver, Sharan Newman, Craig McDonald, J.A. Jance, F. Paul Wilson, David Morrell, Rick Mofina, Marcia Talley, Mike MacLean, Wendy Hornsby, Stanley Cohen, Robert S. Levinson, Neal Marks, Simon Brett, Sue Pike, Peter...
Sep.01.2007
In a dusty cantina on the far side of the Rio Grande, larger-than-life and recently widowed crime writer Hector Lassiter and Bud Fiske, a callow young poet sent by True Magazine to profile Hector, are handed a carpet bag. Inside they find the stolen head of Mexican general Francisco "Pancho" Villa—a long missing relic that may point the way to a fortune in lost treasure...
May.01.2006
Art in the Blood: Crime Novelists Discuss Their Craft, is a collection of candid interviews with 20 top crime and mystery writers. The book includes a foreword by Ken Bruen. The authors interviewed include: James Ellroy, Ken Bruen, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, Liza Cody, Walter Mosley, Dennis Lehane, Ian Rankin, Karin Slaughter, Dan Brown, Lee Child, Steve Hamilton, J.A....
Mar.01.2006
Collection of noir crime stories edited by Ken Bruen and set in Dublin, Ireland. Contributors include Ken Bruen, Eoin Colfer, Laura Lippman, Craig McDonald, Olen Steinhauer, Peter Spiegelman, Kevin Wignall, Jim Fusilli, John Rickards, Patrick J. Lambe, Charlie Stella, Ray Banks, James O. Born, Sarah Weinman, Pat Mullan, Reed Farrel Coleman, Gary Phillips and Duane Swierczynski.
About Craig
Craig McDonald is an award-winning journalist, editor and fiction writer. His short fiction has appeared in literary magazines, anthologies and several online crime fiction sites.
His debut novel, Head Games, was published by Bleak House Books in September...
Causes Craig McDonald Supports
American Cancer Society
Salvation Army