![]() ![]() He assembled his early stories into a self-published book titled American Death Songs (later released in a slightly different form as Love and Other Wounds), intended to serve as a Hollywood calling card-and indeed he eventually made his way to the left coast, where he came up through the rigorous tutelage of the Warner Bros. Originally from Missouri and steeped in the southern noir atmosphere of the Ozarks (influenced by such writers as Daniel Woodrell and Frank Bill), Harper got his start in gut-punching pulp mags like ThugLit and Out of the Gutter. ![]() Truth is, Harper has his hands in more types of media than you might realize-and has for quite some time. Harper seems to be suddenly all over the place in late 2022, having just released a new novel in the She Rides Shotgun universe, titled The Last King of California (available in the UK), and looking forward to the wham-bam release of another crime novel early next year! Today, most crime-fiction aficionados point to She Rides Shotgun as a pivotal work in the genre, an emotional powerhouse that introduced a vivid new talent onto the scene. ![]() It’s one of those crime novels you might call a slow grower-finding modest initial success and then gradually accumulating recognition until it becomes something of a cult classic. If you’re like most readers, you first encountered the fiction of Jordan Harper in his gritty, affecting debut novel, She Rides Shotgun. ![]()
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