Author Daniel Judson
Daniel Judson’s novel THE DARKEST PLACE was released by SMP-Minotaur last month. Yesterday the publicists at SMP launched a second wave on behalf of the book and I’m glad they did. I almost missed this one and that would’ve been too bad as this is one of the best crime novels of the year. I’ll do a review within the week but in the meanwhile here is what I know about the author. Daniel Judson lives on the east end of Long Island where he attended Southampton College. That’s Yaz territory for those of you in Red Sox Nation. Yaz.
There is an interview at Bookreporter from last month in which Judson discusses THE DARKEST PLACE and his previous novels THE BONE ORCHARD and THE POISONED ROSE. THE BONE ORCHARD garnered an EDGAR nomination and based on the writing in THE DARKEST PLACE I can see why. I’ll put a link to the Bookreporter interview on the blogroll.
Favorites in 2006: DOPE by Sara Gran, SMOKED by Patrick Quinlan, THE DEAD HOUR by Denise Mina, FIELD OF DARKNESS by Cornelia Read, THE LINCOLN LAWYER by Michael Connelly. I think that THE DARKEST PLACE will find its way onto my favorites list as well.