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John Shannon's
Jack Liffey Mysteries

"The most interesting new private detective to lift his fedora over the horizon since Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins!"
—Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune


"I think this is one of the finest, most sustained and boldest detective series to ever be set in Los Angeles!"

—Kevin Burton Smith, The Rap Sheet

The New Jack Liffey is Here!

Palos Verdes Blue, from Pegasus Books: April 2009


A sample chapter from Palos Verdes Blue

 

A new profile in The South Bay Daily Breeze

 


Plus trade paperback reissues of the earlier Liffeys:
The Concrete River--Out now
The Dark Streets--Out Now
The Cracked Earth—Out Now
The Devils of Bakersfield—Out Now 


A profile of John Shannon in January Magazine.

A profile of John Shannon in the L.A. Times

A recent Shannon article on memory, nostalgia and loss.


Early reviews of Palos Verdes Blue

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