FICTION
Released: Feb. 27, 2002
"Despite all the scenes illustrating the hopelessness of growing up in the nation's capital, the author's ardent muckraking makes his tenth novel his most hopeful, even though it takes the edge off his trademark grasp of urban evil."
A drive-by shooting that ordinarily wouldn't even rate the front page of the
Washington Post Metro section pits p.i. Derek Strange (
Right as Rain, 2001) against a city full of men behaving badly.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 1992
"This debut is promising—but better wait for Pelecanos to throw better stuff."
Meet Nick Stefanos, hard-drinking, heavy-metal-loving D.C. appliance salesman who talks so much like a private eye that stockboy Jimmy Broda's grandfather insists that he find the missing boy, who was fired after he stopped showing up for work—and who was last seen with novice druggie Eddie "Redman" Shultz and dangerously experienced Kim Lazarus.
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