David Fulmer: 5 books

The siren call of Storyville... New Orleans, 1914. No one cares much when a street whore is the victim of a bloody murder. Nor when a woman in a crib on the dirty back end of the red light district is found slain. But then a third ravaged body turns up in a house along one of the better streets,...

Donna Santorello, a high-dollar call girl, and Ray Pizulski, a low-rent car thief, find themselves back in Anthracite, the dead-end coal town they escaped twenty years before. They face the ghosts they thought they had left behind, even as a stone killer tries to track them down. This contemporary...

New Orleans is a great city for regionally-themed books. Akashic Books Noir Series is selling great; nearly every title has gone into multiple printings. Whole series to be promoted at major trade conferences and mystery conferences. Major media push: print, radio, television.

Welterweight boxer Eddie Cero is out of the ring with an injury, but he still can’t bear to see an unfair fight. In a Philadelphia alley he steps in on two punks beating up an older man—and the victim, a private detective, buys Eddie a round and offers him a part-time gig. After a few days on...

Joe Kelly is about to greet Christmas by sharing the best news he’s had in years with his wife Mariel and his two children ― along with a gift that Mariel has longed for since the day they were married. But just as he’s about to present his stunning surprises, his world is abruptly fractured,...