Jesse Sublett: 4 books

Martin Fender is a blues bassist and part-time detective in the hothouse music scene in Austin, Texas in the mid-1980s. In this complex and quirky novel, desperate rock critics who hold a grudge against Martin's old band are murdered over a missing kilo of cocaine. Real estate scammers, a suicidal...

Crime fiction author and musician Jesse Sublett has been compared to Tom Waits, James Ellroy, Otis Rush, Michael Connelly and Denis Johnson. Not surprisingly, then, his new ebook, Grave Digger Blues, is a blast of surreal, post-apocalyptic noir, laced with blues poetry and actual songs and poems,...

Timmy Overton of Austin and Jerry Ray James of Odessa were football stars who traded athletics for lives of crime. The original rebels without causes, nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis hair, the Overton gang and their associates formed a ragtag white trash mafia that bedazzled Austin law enforcement...

“Eddie’s story is by turns hilarious, informative, and the living spirit of its age. . . . [He] piles the most unlikely anecdotes on top of one another, creating a land of enchantment and an order of chemically altered consciousness that rescues an era I’d thought not so much lost as forgotten....