Awards, Blurbs, and Reviews
Instant International Bestseller, topping lists from L.A. to Ireland, to the UK, to Australia!
Finalist for CWA’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award
Shortlisted for ITW’s Best Novel Award
A Library Journal Top Five Best Thriller 2007
Selection for Mystery Guild and Book of the Month Club
Book Sense Notable Pick, August 2007
January Magazine Best of 2007 Title
A Crime Fiction Dossier Top 10 of 2007
“With The Crime Writer, Gregg Hurwitz has taken a quantum leap forward in the realm of American suspense literature. A thrilling, mind-bending journey, it is also deeply humane and beautifully written. You’ll turn the final page with profound regret.”
DENNIS LEHANE
“The Crime Writer is the MUST READ crime novel of the year. Brilliantly rendered with hip intelligence and fierce originality, this book is a stunner. Gregg Hurwitz may well have created a brand name franchise, and deservedly so.”
ROBERT CRAIS
“Outstanding in every way. Hurwitz’s previous books – great as they were – look like practice swings before this titanic blast.”
LEE CHILD
“It’d be so simple to say that The Crime Writer toys and pokes and jabs with the genre. And of course it does. But by merging author and hero, Hurwitz sharpens a brand-new edge in his voice. An elegant, engaging and wonderfully human book.”
BRAD MELTZER
“A performance worthy of applause…Hurwitz’s carefully interwoven plot lines and taut writing, as well as his pulsing descriptions of Los Angeles, make for a deeply satisfying read, and the ending, revealed with masterful simplicity, shows the complex desires that make each of us capable of murder.”
KIRKUS (STARRED REVIEW)
“The plot has more twists and turns than Mulholland Drive…Hurwitz’s insights about L.A. life sound knowing and are often ruefully funny…Crime fans looking for something different will love this one.”
BOOKLIST
“Hurwitz has written one of the stand-out books of the summer, combining great writing, memorable characters and white-knuckle suspense. He’s also crafted a story that uses the city of Los Angeles to beautiful effect. The Crime Writer is not just the best novel this author has written; it would take top rank on many writers’ resumes.”
DAVID MONTGOMERY, CRIME FICTION DOSSIER
“…an exhilarating tale…the first part of this exciting thriller may be the best opening ploy in the mystery genre this year.”
THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
“(an) intimate, tension-filled story that starts strong and grows to a smashing finish…A hero truly worth rooting for.”
OLINE H. COGDILL, THE SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
“…Hurwitz has managed to inject a much-needed intelligence into a genre that typically prefers guns to brains. In his latest, The Crime Writer, Hurwitz does the unimaginable: He completely reinvents himself…Like the best crime novels, the good guys and the bad guys are often the very same people in The Crime Writer, a book so deliciously bedeviling that we found ourselves finishing the novel only to flip back to page one to see if we’d somehow missed a clue along the way.”
TOD GOLDBERG, E! ONLINE
“With a cast of characters that are so credible and a host of scenarios certain to have readers biting their nails to the quick, I See You/The Crime Writer is a thrill-fest, roller-coaster ride from first to last that is, if ever there was one, the definitive must read book of 2007.”
CHRIS HIGH, SHOTS
“Hurwitz’s intelligent, skillfully plotted thriller, with its clever mystery and undercurrent of menace, is a gripping read.”
SUSANNA YAGER, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
“Gregg Hurwitz has written seven previous novels and has consistently produced work of exceptional quality, The Crime Writer perhaps being the pinnacle of that output thus far….Is it clear yet why The Crime Writer is one of my favorite reads of the year?”
ANTHONY RAINONE, JANUARY MAGAZINE
