PRAISE FOR
CHASING THE DEVIL’S TAIL
-- Best First Novel - 2002 Shamus Awards
-- Best of 2003 List - Borders Books
-- Best New Series - Booklist
-- Nominee - 2002 LA Times Book Prizes
-- Nominee - 2002 Barry Awards
-- Nominee - 2005 Falcon Award
“A beautifully constructed, elegantly presented time trip to a
New Orleans of the very early 1900s. The characters are
memorable and the period is brilliantly recaptured
-- The Los Angeles Times
“The best part of this very good book is the writing, the see-it,
feel-it,touch-it style. It's a tribute to the power and demands
of friendship,and an explication of the curse of the musical
genius....”
-- The Times-Picayune
“A fascinating cast of characters in a novel steeped in a gumbo
of race and class, set against a background of jazz.”
-- Bookviews
“Top-notch suspense fiction in an evocative and harrowing
time and place.”
-- Jeffery Deaver
“A five-star novel. Flawless.”
-- Jazz Review
“The sights and the smells and (crucially) the sounds of 1907 New Orleans are vividly conjured by this
remarkable first novel. “
-- January Magazine
“A story full of riposte and revelry where greed, jealousy, and hatred fuels the need for murder in the first
degree...Riveting.”
-- MyShelf.com
“A believable and spellbinding story, which will echo like the mournful notes of good blues.”
-- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
“Fulmer effectively combines historical material-especially the story of Bolden's descent into madness -- with
a satisfyingly complex mystery.”
-- Booklist
"An exotic and erotic mixture of things we like: jazz, pimps, prostitutes, murder and dirty politics. David
Fulmer is a fine writer."
-- Nelson DeMille
"David Fulmer has created an amazing story, and he makes it look easy."
-- The Plain Dealer
"The sights and the smells and (crucially) the sounds of 1907 New Orleans are vividly conjured by this
remarkable first novel.
-- January Magazine
"A story full of riposte and revelry where greed, jealousy, and hatred fuels the need for murder in the first
degree...Riveting."
-- MyShelf.com
"A believable and spellbinding story, which will echo like the mournful notes of good blues."
-- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"Fulmer effectively combines historical material-especially the story of Bolden's descent into madness --
with a satisfyingly complex mystery."
-- Booklist
| Read by Dion Graham |
| The College of Musical Knowledge Chasing the Devil's Tail Required reading for Courses at George Mason University University of Wuerzburg |