Tricky is a great cop thriller and so much more. It straddles the works of Michael Conelly and Craig Johnson with a style and voice all its own.
Tag: Josh Stallings
Live Talk Idyllwild Library 2.16.21 6pm PST
Join us for the first in a series of Local Author Talks, “Idyllwild Reads…Idyllwild.”
Crime Fiction Needs Neurodiversity.
My placement of an intellectually disabled man at the center of Tricky wasn’t a decision to be neurodiverse—I hadn’t heard of the term yet—or a plotting calculation. It was personal. My son Dylan is intellectually disabled.
Lou Berney
“TRICKY blew me away. Josh Stallings has written a gritty, vibrant, riotously entertaining crime novel filled with unforgettable and deeply human characters.”―Lou Berney, Edgar Award-winning author of NOVEMBER ROAD
Publishers Weekly
LAPD homicide detective Niels Madsen, the protagonist of this engrossing mystery from Stallings (Young Americans), is on his way to work when he comes across an armed standoff.
2018 Interview with Will Viharo
Author of the Week: Josh Stallings 2/27/2018 by Will Viharo Life is a funny thing, even when it’s nothing to laugh at. Writers struggle with interpreting their experiences, circumstances and surroundings into fiction that is both relatable and subjective, accessible yet challenging. Author Josh Stallings hails from a very colorful background, like a lot…
Out of the Gutter REVIEW
OUT OF THE GUTTER 11/17/2015 Josh Stallings has a habit of writing books that elicit strong emotions from his readers. The Moses McGuire series deals with topics that are heavy-handed, leaving most readers feeling righteous indignation towards the treatment of some of his secondary characters. His ability to elicit these strong emotions is what made…
Young Americans BLURBS (what other authors have to say.)
1976 New Year’s Eve, San Francisco. A Firebird transports a crew of glitter kids away from the city. Forget the trunk full of cash and illegal firearms. Forget the disco heist and sea of felonies left in their wake. They are five friends happily rolling down thunder road with no horizon in sight. They are…