More praise for Tom Piccirilli
On The Last Kind Words:
“A caustic thriller . . . the characters have strong voices and bristle with funny quirks.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“There’s more life in Piccirilli’s The Last Kind Words (and more heartache, action, and deliverance) than any other novel I’ve read in the past couple of years.”
—Booklist
“Perfect crime fiction . . . a convincing world, a cast of compelling characters, and above all a great story.”
—Lee Child, NYT Bestselling author of the
Jack Reacher series
On A Choir of Ill Children:
“Wonderfully wacked, disorienting, fully creepy book . . . The poetic nature of the prose and seriousness of intent carried the day in every scene.”
—Dean Koontz, NYT Bestselling author of
The Bad Place & Odd Thomas
“Piccirilli’s mastery of the hard-boiled idiom is pitch perfect, particularly in the repartee between his characters, while the picture he paints of the criminal corruption conjoining the innocent and guilty in a small Long Island community is as persuasive as it is seamy. Readers who like a bleak streak in their crime fiction will enjoy this well-wrought novel.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Consigning most of the violence to the past allows Piccirilli . . . to dial down the gore while imparting a soulful, shivery edge to this tale of an unhappy family that’s assuredly unhappy in its own special way.”
—Kirkus