Not for the weak of mind or spirit, this collection of rural noir—set in the deserts of California, Arizona, and Nevada—follows the exploits of hit men, charlatans, killers, and crooks.
Taken together, the stories in Quiet and the Darkness are a searing portrait of a darkening rural American psyche—forgotten, lonely, cast-off, violent, enraged…and afraid. But beneath the grit and blood is a cruel reality: these are stories about people grieving for mothers, fathers, sons, daughters…grieving for the lives they should have had and for the lives they destroyed of their own accord.
Fusing the pulp aesthetics of Jim Thompson and Charles Williams with the literary sensibilities of Breece D’jPancake and Flannery O’Connor, lauded American noirist Matt Phillips has crafted a collection equally at home in the jailhouse library as it is on the literature professor’s nightstand.
PREVIOUS PRAISE FOR MATT PHILLIPS
"Phillips...in a just world, will someday get his due alongside some of those more celebrated Gold Medal authors. Because there's still an audience for storytelling that marries propulsive darkness with painstaking skill.” Jim Thomsen, writer and editor
“Slick, razor-sharp dialogue and realistic characters make Phillips The Crime Writer to Binge Read.” - Stephen J. Golds, author of Say Goodbye When I’m Gone and I’ll Pray When I’m Dying
"I can't get enough of Matt Phillips these days, and hope a sh*t-ton of other readers will soon feel the same." - Anthony Neil Smith, author of Slow Bear, All the Young Warriors and Yellow Medicine
"Phillips is a writer who should be on everyone's radar for his lean, taut prose, authentic dialogue, and mastery of noir." - Sarah Chen, Derringer award-winning author of Cleaning Up Finn
“A master storyteller in this genre...” - Readers’ Favorite
“Lucky for us…Phillips knows his way around the dark recesses of the heart���” - Tough Crime
Genre: Mystery
Taken together, the stories in Quiet and the Darkness are a searing portrait of a darkening rural American psyche—forgotten, lonely, cast-off, violent, enraged…and afraid. But beneath the grit and blood is a cruel reality: these are stories about people grieving for mothers, fathers, sons, daughters…grieving for the lives they should have had and for the lives they destroyed of their own accord.
Fusing the pulp aesthetics of Jim Thompson and Charles Williams with the literary sensibilities of Breece D’jPancake and Flannery O’Connor, lauded American noirist Matt Phillips has crafted a collection equally at home in the jailhouse library as it is on the literature professor’s nightstand.
PREVIOUS PRAISE FOR MATT PHILLIPS
"Phillips...in a just world, will someday get his due alongside some of those more celebrated Gold Medal authors. Because there's still an audience for storytelling that marries propulsive darkness with painstaking skill.” Jim Thomsen, writer and editor
“Slick, razor-sharp dialogue and realistic characters make Phillips The Crime Writer to Binge Read.” - Stephen J. Golds, author of Say Goodbye When I’m Gone and I’ll Pray When I’m Dying
"I can't get enough of Matt Phillips these days, and hope a sh*t-ton of other readers will soon feel the same." - Anthony Neil Smith, author of Slow Bear, All the Young Warriors and Yellow Medicine
"Phillips is a writer who should be on everyone's radar for his lean, taut prose, authentic dialogue, and mastery of noir." - Sarah Chen, Derringer award-winning author of Cleaning Up Finn
“A master storyteller in this genre...” - Readers’ Favorite
“Lucky for us…Phillips knows his way around the dark recesses of the heart���” - Tough Crime
Genre: Mystery
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