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Gearing up to go to Texas for The Big Show �� that lil�� ol�� April 27 book signing in Dallas at Louie’s. C’mon, you know you need a little “cowboy noir for the cartel era�� in your life. THE LAST SECOND CHANCE

Just a week away from The Big Show at Louie’s in Dallas, where I’ll be on hand for adult beverages with some Texas chums and the best Greek pizza on the planet. Oh, yeah �� I’ll also sign any and all copies of my book, THE LAST SECOND CHANCE: An Ed Earl Burch Novel. Drag your own along or buy one at the scene of the crime. See you there.

This CRIMESCENE is investigated by

Jim Nesbitt:

Patter Is Vital �� And Deadly

If you love the great noir films of the 1940s, you know they’re driven by sharp, snappy dialogue, delivered at a machine-gun clip in the American vernacular. It’s called patter and James Lileks�� 40s-era who-dun-it, set in the frozen tundra of Minneapolis, has it in spades. This isn’t your everyday patter �� nor is it gaudy like a piece of fake jewelry. This is patter that can steal your best girl while lighting your Lucky with a snick of a Zippo. Patter like this can mix you the perfect Manhattan or carve out your liver with a switchblade. And it serves Lileks well in the telling of THE CASABLANCA TANGO, a body-strewn mystery that brings back the main characters of the author’s previous work, cigarette-mooching newspaper reporter Harry Holman and his sidekick photographer John Crosley, who is��

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Can’t wait to see my good Texas friends at Louie’s in Dallas on April 27, when I’ll be signing copies of my new hard-boiled thriller, THE LAST SECOND CHANCE, An Ed Earl Burch Novel. C’mon down, bend an elbow, swap some lies, grab some Greek pizza and a book. 6 p.m.

Just found out that has named its Pitch Perfect Pick winner �� thanks to the likes, shares and votes of The Mule’s vast network of fans, friends and family. Very much appreciated.

Another five-star review for just rolled in. This one is from Cheryl Pellerin, author of a grand and very witty book call . It presents science with verve and wry humor �� imagine Rosalind Russell talking you through it. It even has art from the great underground cartoonist, R. Crumb. She’s a helluva writer and I’m humbled by her review.

THE BEST WRITER I KNOW

April 10, 2016

By Cheryl Pellerin

I’m a science writer. I wrote a book about hallucinogens and your brain that has underground comics in it (for those of you on drugs) and interviews with medicinal chemists and psychopharmacologists. So why am I writing this review with the very highest praise for any kind of writing, and now a first novel, by Jim Nesbitt? I’ll tell you �� it’s because whenever I read anything he writes, in my head there’s a running dialog: That’s the best sentence I’ve ever read. Where did he get that word? That analogy could slice an onion. Who even writes like this anymore? Part of it’s because, as he likes to say, for three decades he chased presidential candidates, hurricanes, earthquakes, rodeo cowboys, ranchers, neo-Nazis and nuns as a roving correspondent.That’ll spice up your word supply. Also, as he once described himself: he’s a storyteller, born of Scots-Irish hillbilly stock. Now he’s written THE LAST SECOND CHANCE, an Ed Earl Burch novel. Burch �� and these are all Nesbitt’s descriptions �� is a cashiered vice and homicide detective with bad knees and a battered soul. In the novel he plays a deadly game with a short blonde with a taste for muscle cars, crystal meth and the high-wire double cross. See what I mean? And then the story begins. If you like to read, if you appreciate words and people who run them brilliantly through their paces, give this book a read, and his next one and the one after that. You’ll be enthralled, like I was.

Cheryl Pellerin, author of Trips: How Hallucinogens Work in Your Brain (1998, Seven Stories Press, NY)

YOW, chirren. YOW!!.With a Big Boy Howdy thrown in. No sooner do I post pictures of THE LAST SECOND CHANCE on the display table at BookPeople in Austin, Texas than I find out that Ed Earl has hit The Big Apple �� the book is for sale at The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. In their hard-boiled section, of course. This is big news because these folks are hard core about all things noir and hard-boiled. Check it out at

I have Sarah Jackson, ace Australian book review blogger, to thank for pointing me toward The Mysterious Bookshop. Check out her blog at

So, this made my day today �� BookPeople in Austin put THE LAST SECOND CHANCE on their Whale featured display table. Hurry on down and snap up a copy, Austinites. And if you don’t live near Austin, you can go to my Facebook author page and hit the Shop Now button:

Texicans �� particularly my Austin friends �� copies of THE LAST SECOND CHANCE are available at BookPeople, Austin’s largest independent book store. The books arrived tonight and should be on their Whale featured display table next week. Check out BookPeople at

And don’t forget my April 27 book signing at Louie’s in Dallas. If you aren’t fortunate enough to live in or near Dallas or Austin, you can always grab a copy at

OK, chirren  �� is a Pitch Perfect finalist on Underground Book Reviews. Click HERE to go to their Facebook page, scroll down until you see my book and hit the ‘like�� button. Many thanks in advance.