ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED CRIME BOOKS OF 2021
Punk-rock poet Josh Stallings has written an intense new crime novel about the power of people to change. In Tricky, a former gang member is accused of beating a man with Down’s Syndrome to death. The accused is also intellectually disabled after brain injuries sustained from a beating, and it’s up to Stallings’ narrator to determine what happened. Tricky is dedicated to Josh Stallings’ own son, who is intellectually disabled. A moral tour-de-force that explores essential questions of reform and justice, Tricky is not to be missed. –MO CrimeReads