On a cold December night in 1920s Atlanta, a drunken white cop shoots a black gambler in one of the worst parts of town, and a cache of jewels goes missing from a mansion in one of the best. Joe Rose—rambler, gambler, and professional thief—has just hit the city. He soon finds himself caught in a three-sided puzzle that involves a black-hearted police officer called "the Captain," the pimp and crapshooter Little Jesse Williams, and a wicked beauty named Pearl Spencer. Behind it all is Atlanta, the city once nothing but dust and ashes, now the richest, busiest metropolis in the South, mixing sin with success and vibrating with mayhem and music. In his acclaimed Storyville series, David Fulmer brought the jazz-soaked streets of New Orleans to life. Now he brings us another absorbing mystery in a new setting raucous with music and rich with history.
David Fulmer is the author of seven critically-acclaimed novels with Poisoned Pen Press, Harcourt Books, and Five Stones Press.
"Chasing the Devil's Tail" was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Barry Award, and a Falcon Award, was on Borders' "Best of 2003 List," and won a Shamus Award and an AudioFile Golden Earphones Award. It has been translated into Japanese, Italian, and French. "Jass" was nominated for the "Best of 2005" lists by Library Journal, Deadly Pleasures Magazine, and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and won the 2005 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Fiction. Rampart Street was included as one of New York Magazine's "Best Novels You've Never Read" and the audiobook version won the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Audiobook Fiction. His fourth novel, "The Dying Crapshooter's Blues received the "Ice Pick of the Month Award" by Bookpage. "The Blue Door" was chosen for the "2008 Best of the Shelf" by Atlanta Magazine and was nominated for the 2009 Shamus Award for Best Novel.
His sixth novel, Lost River, was released in January 2009 and his seventh, "The Fall," will be released in 2010 by Five Stones Press.
His books have received superlative reviews from The Times Picayune, USA Today, The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, BookList, Kirkus Reviews, The Detroit Free Press, The Sacramento Bee, The Boston Globe, The Tennessean, Bookpage, The Plain Dealer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Christian Science Monitor, and numerous other publications and book-related websites.
Fulmer wrote and produced the documentary "Blind Willie's Blues," which Video Librarian called "nothing less than the economic, social, and historical evolution of America's indigenous music." It earned him a nomination for a W.C. Handy "Keeping the Blues Alive" Award in 1998. He also writes and produces the "Americana" audio series for NPR affiliate WABE-FM and WMLB-AM, both in Atlanta. He is the co-producer of "Piano Red - The Lost Atlanta Tapes" which was released in August 2010 by Landslide Records.
As a journalist, he has written about music and other subjects for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Southline, Atlanta Magazine, Paste Magazine, City Life, Markee, Blues Access, Il Giornale, Goodlife, Advertising Age, The Atlanta Tribune, Creative Loafing, BackStage, Georgia Music Magazine, and various trade publications.
A native of central Pennsylvania, he lives in Atlanta with his daughter Italia.
www.davidfulmer.com
