Ed Lynskey
Ed Lynskey
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100 years old
Annandale, Virginia
United States
Last Login: 7/4/2009
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| General | Proud Member with the following cyber-reading groups: RARA-AVIS (since 1999!), 4-MYSTERY ADDICTS, DETECTIVE TODAY, MURDER AND MAYHEM CLUB, SHORT FICTION MYSTERY SOCIETY (since 1999!), DOROTHY-L, GA-DETECTION, FEM-MYSTERY, NOT NECESSARILY HARDBOILED, LIBRAY THING, GOOD READS, CRIME SPACE, SHELFARI, and WESTERN PULPS. | | Music | I've seen these entertainers play live: Chris Robinson (Black Crowes), Genesis (w/Phil Collins), Linda Ronstadt, Uriah Heep, Led Zep (yep, I surely did), Jan Hammer, Shawn Colvin, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Country Gentleman, Seldom Scene, Alison Krauss/Union Station, Dead Men's Hollow, Bad Company, Journey, Jefferson Starship (w/Gracey + Marty), Stephen Stills, CSN&Y, Wavy Gravy, Elvis Costello, Bare Naked Ladies, Wilco, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Alan Jackson, Willie Nelson, Travis Tritt, Sawyer Brown, Lucinda Williams, Merle Travis, Mac Wiseman, Bill Monroe, Waylon Jennings, John Mellencamp, Hazel Dickens, Jim & Jesse, Dr. Ralph Stanley, Osborne Brothers, Jerry Garcia, Jimmy Martin, Reno & Smiley, Flatts & Scruggs, Jeff Beck, Andrew Gold, Poco, Orleans, Emmy Lou Harris, and John Starling. | | Movies |
Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader, The Hitch-Hiker, Kiss Me Deadly, Cape Fear, The Big Sleep, Body Heat, Blue Velvet, Gun Crazy, The Third Man, Dark Passage, The Grifters, The Big Heat, Naked Spur, Postman Always Rings Twice, Out of the Past, Touch of Evil, High Sierra, Fargo, Chinatown, The Getaway, Force of Evil. | | Television |
Prime Suspect (Helen Mirren), The Closer, Monk, Seinfeld, King of the Hill, 48 Hours, Sixty Minutes, Law & Order (early episodes), Cheers, Twilight Zone, Rockford Files, Six Feet Under, M*A*S*H, West Wing, Cosby, The Wire, Homicide, Kojak, Frank's Place, High Chaparral, and Sanford & Son.
| | Books | In no particular order, these top notch scribes (dead and alive):
Stephen King, Robert F. Parker, Edgar Allan Poe, James Lee Burke, Walter Mosley, Toni Morrison, Harry Crews, James Crumley, Richard Price, James Ellroy, Larry Brown, Raymond Carver, William Gay, Graham Greene, Daniel Woodrell, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, James Dickey, Richard Brautigan, Bill Pronzini, Ken Bruen, T. Jefferson Parker, Ed Gorman, James Reasoner, John Lescroart, William Kent Kreuger, John Lutz, Ed Dee, Jeremiah Healy, Bill Crider, Seymour Shubin, Loren D. Estleman, Bob Bausch, Dick Bausch, George Pelecanos, David Simon, Robert Crais, Dennis Lehane, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Williams, Ed Lacy (aka Len Zinberg), Nelson Algren, James Agee, Wade Miller, Bart Spicer, James M. Cain, Ed McBain, Jim Thompson, Jack Ketchm, Raymond Chandler, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Dashiell Hammett, Gil Brewer, Harry Whittington, Bruno Fischer, Day Keene, Peter Rabe, Donald Hamilton, Mickey Spillane, Howard Browne, Dennis Lynds (aka Michael Collins), Day Keene, Philip K.Dick, Ray Bradbury, Jason Starr, Sean Doolittle, Charlie Stella, J.D. Rhoades, Steve Hamilton, Lawrence Block, Kevin O'Brien, James Rollins, Charlie Huston, Lorrie Moore, Megan Abbott, Barbara D'Amato, Linda Fairstein, Laura Lippman, Tess Gerritsen, Karin Slaughter, Alex Kava, Anne Frasier, Janet Evanovich, Dorothy Uhnak, Nevada Barr, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Susan Shreve, Gail Godwin, Anne Tyler, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Katherine Anne Porter, Sue Grafton, Patricia Cornwell, Tony Hillerman, Donald E. Westlake, Ross Thomas, Chester Himes, Gary Phillips, Gar Anthony Haywood, Ross Macdonald, John D. MacDonald, Charles Willeford, Margaret Millar, Marcia Muller, Stephen Greenleaf, Fred Chappell, Kenneth Patchen, Elizabeth Bishop, Carolyn Forche, William Stafford, Gary Synder, Donald Hall, L.E. Sissman, Richard Hugo, Etheride Knight, James Wright, Maya Angelo, Rita Dove, and Gwendolyn Brooks. | | Heroes |
For all the men and women, past and present, in our military, Frank (an ex-Army MP sergeant) and I offer our gratitude and many thanks for all your great service! |
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking | | Hometown: | Washington, D.C. | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Education: | Post grad | | Occupation: | Novelist |
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Publishing - Writer - Novelist
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I enjoy (if the mojo is working) writing novels and telling stories of real people in real places.
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Ed Lynskey is reading Stephen Hunter's NIGHT OF THUNDER, a Bob Lee Swagger adventure in a NASCAR setting...
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PELHAM FELL HERE by ED LYNSKEY
[#1 of 6 in P.I. Frank Johnson series]
LIBRARIES: My novels can be found in the public libraries. Please patronize and support them.
You can order Pelham Fell Here straight from the publisher at: MUNDANIA PRESS. You can sample an excerpt from the first chapter in the MySpace blog.
PELHAM FELL HERE is now only available (sorry, folks) online at these places:
AMAZON/CANADA
DYMOCKS.com
McNALLY ROBINSON
CHAPTERS
AMAZON/U.K.
AMAZON/GERMANY
BUECHER.DE
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AMAZON/U.S.
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POWELL'S BOOKS
ABE BOOKS.COM
THE NILE/NZ
THE NILE/AU
PELHAM FELL HERE AS TOLD IN A NUTSHELL.....
MP and part-time gunsmith Frank Johnson finds his cousin Cody Chapman slaughtered by a twelve-gauge shotgun. Enraged, Frank wants some answers, and fast. Was Cody involved in an arms smuggling scheme?
The mystery deepens when a pair of blood-thirsty deputy sheriffs ambush Frank on the river road. Killing them in self-defense, Frank has to take it on the lam while he pushes into his investigation.
Frank tangles with a clan of Neo-Nazis, holed up at a remote castle, who may be behind his cousin's murder. Luckily, an old girlfriend and a couple bounty hunter pals throw in with Frank to help even up the odds. Their final showdown erupts at then abandoned Federal Government satellite farm near Pelham.
NOTE ABOUT THE PELHAM FELL HERE TITLE: Several readers have asked me about the title's origins. The youthful Major John Pelham was Jeb Stuart's artillery officer during the American Civil War. Frank's small town takes its name from that Gallant Pelham who was mortally wounded in the Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA, on March 17, 1863.
All the titles in the P.I. Frank Johnson series are:
#1: PELHAM FELL HERE by Ed Lynskey
#2: THE DIRT-BROWN DERBY by Ed Lynskey
#3: THE BLUE CHEER by Ed Lynskey
#4: TROGLODYTES by Ed Lynskey (Autumn 2009)
#5: THE ZINC ZOO by Ed Lynskey (Autumn 2010)
#6: OUT OF TOWN A FEW DAYS by Ed Lynskey (a short story collection)
TESTIMONY UNDER OATH:
"Ed Lynskey's new novel PELHAM FELL HERE is a delight. With a plot as complex as your grandmother's crocheted doilies, Mr. Lynskey creates a portrait of the rural hill country that rings as true as the clank of a Copenhagen can on a Pabst Blue Ribbon can, as does his handle on guns, love, and betrayal. This is a novel well worth the read and makes me want more."
James Crumley, Hammett Award winning author of THE LAST GOOD KISS
"Nobody captures rural America like Ed Lynskey . . . a thoroughly engrossing and satisfying read."
Anne Frasier, USA Today bestselling author of PALE IMMORTAL
"PELHAM FELL HERE bears the richest nicotine and bourbon stains of the hardboiled genre, yet also bristles with vitality. The plot sings, the characters are twisty and textured and the violence brutal but inevitable. All of these elements would be more than enough yet Ed Lynskey offers so much more in the form of a perfectly pitched prose style that swings effortlessly from back-country grit to Appalachian poetry and back again."
Megan Abbott, Edgar winning author of QUEENPIN
"Vintage crime -- smart, crisp dialogue, a town full of dysfunctional characters, a carefully twisted plot, and a terrifically enjoyable read."
Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling author of the Alexandra Cooper mysteries
"P.I. Frank Johnson is prickly, quirky, and persistent."
Barbara D’Amato, Mary Higgins Clark Award, Agatha, and Anthony Award-winner author of Cat Marsala mysteries
“Fast-paced and gripping, with well-drawn characters and a
vividly described background, THE BLUE CHEER is a strong noir debut reminiscent of the work of Philip Atlee and others in the golden stable of Gold Medal writers. I look forward to Ed Lynskey's next.”
Bill Pronzini, Macavity and Shamus Award winning author of The Nameless Detective series
“THE BLUE CHEER is as well-written and well-plotted an
example of the new Appalachian noir as you're likely to find. Ed Lynskey's hard-boiled narrative voice of protagonist Frank Johnson is distinctive, entertaining, and authentic."
John Lescroart, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of THE SECOND CHAIR, THE HEARING, and THE OATH.
"Ed Lynskey's PELHAM FELL HERE is as hard-bitten and hard-boiled as they come. The dialogue crackles with such sharpness that you'd swear sparks were jumping off the pages."
James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of THE JUDAS STRAIN
SOME OF THE STREET CRED IN PRINT...
My books have been reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Booklist (starred), Library Journal, San Diego Union-Tribune, Halifax Chronicle Herald, London Free Press, Nashville Citizen, Tucson Citizen, The Virginian-Pilot, Lansing State Journal, Southern Pines Pilot, Spartanburg Herald-Journal, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and Crime Spree.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Flip Wilson, George Carlin, Jim Croce, Lennie Bruce, FDR, JFK, RFK, MLK, Ezra Pound, Kenneth Patchen, Karl Shapiro, John Ciardi, Jimi & Janis, Felix the Cat, Jackie Robinson, Hank Williams, and Amelia Earhart, Ronald Reagan, Mr. Whiffle, Dickey Chappelle, Cal Ripken, and Larry Bird.
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