Tom Piccirilli - Crime Suspense Author

About me:

I'm the author of twenty novels including THE COLDEST MILE, THE COLD SPOT, THE MIDNIGHT ROAD, HELLBOY: EMERALD HELL, THE DEAD LETTERS, HEADSTONE CITY, A CHOIR OF ILL CHILDREN, and NOVEMBER MOURNS. Check out my website and join my newsletter at Epitaphs: The Tom Piccirilli Website



"Suspense keeps dogged pace with the dark, churning emotions...Piccirilli does a scarily precise job delving into the mind of a man so overcome with grief that his irrational actions begin to mirror those of the killer he pursues...his story keeps the pages turning through to the chilling, poignant end."--Publishers Weekly on THE DEAD LETTERS

"[HEADSTONE CITY is] a beautiful and perversely funny sort of crime novel: a hard-boiled hallucination.... [Piccirilli has] the authentic surrealist's gift of blind trust in his imagination, and that enables him to throw off striking metaphors like sparks from a speeding train. There's a manic insouciance in his prose, along with a persistent, unaccountable melancholy. HEADSTONE CITY gives you the distinctive shiver good horror writing—all good writing—provides: the certainty that the writer's own ghosts are in it."–The New York Times Book Review

"[A CHOIR OF ILL CHILDREN is] A wonderfully wacked, disorienting, fully creepy book."--bestselling author Dean Koontz

"Tom Piccirilli is a powerful, hard-hitting, fiercely original writer of suspense. I highly recommend him."—David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Creepers

"Piccirilli has hit full stride with THE DEAD LETTERS, reaching the ranks of the best writers in suspense and terror. Piccirilli has arrived and can stand on even ground with the Samsons of the genre, and if this David is as strong as I perceive, he just may put out Stephen King's lights or Dean Koontz's eye."--Robert W. Walker, author of CITY FOR RANSOM and ABSOLUTE INSTINCT

"Relentless, mesmerizing, and just damned fine. THE DEAD LETTERS is the best suspense novel I've read all year, period." -- Steve Hamilton, Edgar Award-Winning Author of A STOLEN SEASON

"Tom Piccirilli's voice is dark, disturbing, and truly original. THE DEAD LETTERS is a riveting story of madness, remorse, and salvation served with a bizarre and brilliant twist."–Jonathan Santlofer, bestselling author of THE DEATH ARTIST and THE KILLING ART

"Tom's first true suspense novel THE DEAD LETTERS is every bit as good as his masterpiece HEADSTONE CITY. And why is it so good? Because while the set up is familiar--man goes in search of the serial killer who murdered his daughter--Tom then proceeds to stand on its head every single serial killer trope I've ever read. And turns this into a very serious Jim Thompsoneque look at the possibility of evil redeeming itself. There are so many original, explosive moments in this book it begs to be filmed. But it works first and foremost as a brilliant, brooding, and sometimes wry novel about the dark condition of the human soul. This is one you can't afford to miss."--Ed Gorman, author of the Sam McCain mystery series ..