Description: "As always, Lansdale delivers a book full of surprises, and incredibly vivid characters. Cold in July is a book that goes to some really dark places, for sure. But it's also balanced by Lansdale's unique brand of humor and banter." --Grimdark Dad "Compelling, dark and twisted." --Paper Blog ""This book is a rare treat for fans of crime and noir fiction with a dark side and is a testament to just how good of a writer Lansdale is." -- --Examiner ""A crime fiction classic." ---- The Novel Pursuit ""Impressive Realism-meets- Road House -circa '89 fight-scenes, tailings, and gunfights." -- --Lit Reactor "One of the benefits of Cold in July being made into an independent movie (adapted by screenwriter/actor Nick Damici and directed by Jim Mickle) is this new, movie tie-in edition from Tachyon . . . a finely told crime story." ---- Bookgasm "It's a major novel, full of darkness, humor, passion, and truth." --Lewis Shiner, author of Glimpses and Mozart in Mirroshades (with Bruce Sterling) "I can't think of a more remarkable suspense novel in the last few years. Cold in July has it all." --Ed Gorman, author of The Poker Club " Cold in July is more than a novel of detection; it is an odyssey into the dark recesses of the human psyche." --Loren D. Estleman, author of Burning Midnight ""Told by a master writer...a great novel." ---- Murder by the Book ""Lansdale has a dark sense of humor and a brilliant ability to translate physical tension onto the page. In this novel, originally published in 1989 (and a film by the time you read this), he blends crime, southern gothic, and his own brand of East Texas noir. Don't miss it." ---- Bookshelf Bombshells "A character-driven thriller with more twists than an off-the-map dirt road, awards-quality performances from the three leads, a rare sensitivity to the after-effects of horror and a sure directorial hand." " ---- Empire ""This is crime fiction/pulp fiction at its best. It is dark, it is dangerous, it is wickedly humorous." ---- Looking for a Good Book ""Read the book as soon as you can get your hands on a copy." ---- Everything Noir Praise for Joe R. Lansdale ""A folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace." -- New York Times Book Review ""A terrifically gifted storyteller." -- Washington Post Book Review ""Like gold standard writers Elmore Leonard and the late Donald Westlake, Joe R. Lansdale is one of the more versatile writers in America. -- --Los Angeles Times ""A zest for storytelling and gimlet eye for detail." ---- Entertainment Weekly "Lansdale is an immense talent." -- Booklist ""Lansdale is a storyteller in the Texas tradition of outrageousness...but amped up to about 100,000 watts." ---- Houston Chronicle ""Lansdale's been hailed, at varying points in his career, as the new Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner-gone-madder, and the last surviving splatterpunk...sanctified in the blood of the walking Western dead and righteously readable." ---- Austin Chronicle

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