PRAISE FOR
DAVID FULMER
Praise for
THE BLUE DOOR
"Shamus-winner Fulmer delivers another compelling tale of music and murder. Fulmer excels at capturing
the feel and textures of earlier decades, even as he moves forward in time with each successive novel.
Drawn in by the immensely likable characters and rich, realistic story lines, readers will be eager to see
where Fulmer goes next."
-- Publishers Weekly
"If you're looking to get lost in a mystery, look no further. To me, the real mystery is why David Fulmer
isn't as rich and famous as that other guy."
-- Nick Tosches
"Mood is all here, and Fulmer nails it, the soul sounds providing the backbeat to a straight-ahead mystery
involving backroom double-dealing in the record business."
-- BookList
"An excellent choice for patrons who like a good dollop of music in their mysteries."
-- Library Journal [Starred Review]
"Fulmer knows how to get a page turned."
-- Atlanta Magazine
"Fulmer gives us the whole package: gritty characters, plot muscle, and historical relevance."
-- The Critical Mystery Tour
"If you love a mystery with some punch, author David Fulmer delivers."
-- Southern Living
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 castin 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
Praise for
JASS
"Best of 2005 List" "Best of 2005 List" "Best of 2005 List"
-- The St. Louis Post- Dispatch -- Library Journal - Deadly Pleasures Magazine
"Music is the pulsating idiom of David Fulmer's hot-blooded 'Jass,' the sequel to "Chasing the Devil's Tail"
and another voyeuristic tour of Storyville, New Orleans's red-light district during its heyday at the turn of
the 20th century. Fulmer's dialogue adds its lyric voice to the gutbucket
sounds and ragtime rhythms pouring out of the bars and up from the streets."
-- The New York Times
"I have read few books of intrigue and action as richly written as David Fulmer's 'Jass.' A tale populated
with some of the most perfectly defined characters any writer could hope to create."
- Terry Kay, author of "To Dance with the White Dog"
"Fulmer cares about jazz and shows its birth in a corrupt, violent, bigoted world, but music is only one
element in a canvas that includes politics, poverty, prejudice, crime, drugs, voodoo and the interaction
between the city's rich and the women of color who became their mistresses."
-- The Washington Post
"Shamus-winner Fulmer's moody follow-up to Chasing the Devil's Tail uses spare but evocative prose to
create an atmosphere steeped in ragtime, bourbon and the institutional corruption for which the Big Easy is
notorious. The author skillfully builds on the emotional aftermath of the first novel, providing plenty of
demons to wrestle."
-- Publishers Weekly
"Again vividly evoking the early days of jazz in turn-of-the-century New Orleans. The palpable ambience
develops naturally out of the very real interaction between character and place."
-- Booklist
"Fulmer is in fine form. The city and culture he portrays are as rich and dark as its coffee. With language
that can get as rough as his characters, he paints a realistic picture of one of this country's most famous
underworlds -- and the beginnings of its greatest indigenous art."
-- The Boston Globe
"In his absorbing "Jass,' David Fulmer skillfully tells a memorable tale while creating a fascinating,
three-dimensional portrait of the New Orleans demimonde of almost a century ago, just after the birth of
the music first called jass."
-- The St. Louis Post- Dispatch
"A fascinating and authentic account of Storyville: its mystery and misery; its danger and decadence; and
that sinful new music finding its roots. This is a murder mystery with history at its heart--as heady a New
Orleans mix as a pitcher of absinthe. Drink it in."
- - Christine Wiltz, author of "The Last Madam"
Praise for
RAMPART STREET
* Winner - 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Adult Fiction [Audiobook]
* Selected for New York Magazine's Best Novels You've Never Read - June, 2007
"Though written before Katrina hit, 'Rampart Street' eerily captures the sense of disorientation when
someone returns to a beloved place and feels himself a stranger... the elegiac tone in which Fulmer views the
city's fabled amusements feels sadly prescient."
-- The New York Times
"A bittersweet trip to New Orleans... A blues-drenched pleasure."
-- The Christian Science Monitor
"The sense of place is so palpable you can almost hear the music. Fulmer's writing is crisp and nuanced.
Valentin is a hero for whom it's easy to cheer.
-- The Detroit Free Press
"St. Cyr is a great character, and the fascinating city and its larger-than-life denizens intrigue."
-- Publishers Weekly
"Fulmer improves with each outing in this ambience-drenched series, displaying a subtle touch with
human relationships, especially those that traverse New Orleans' fluid color line. "
-- Booklist
"You can almost taste the gumbo...Fulmer's languid, conversational style perfectly matches the Crescent
City setting with its complex web of murder, corruption, and betrayal."
-- The San Francisco Chronicle
Praise for
THE DYING CRAPSHOOTER'S BLUES
"I switched off the TV set and picked up 'The Dying Crapshooter's Blues.' I did it, and I'm glad. The novel is
distinguished by a level of detail that makes a vanished world live again."
-- The Washington Post
"Four Stars!" - Paste Magazine
"An intriguing tale of police corruption, covetousness, conspiracy, and crime."
-- The Tennesseean
"Rich in historical detail, infused with atmosphere, suspenseful and action-packed... Earns this month's
"Tip of the Ice Pick Award."
-- BookList
"A heady brew of crime and punishment on Prohibition Atlanta, the novel features an eccentric cast of
colorful characters. Once more, Fulmer brings an era vividly to life, the sweet notes of The Dying
Crapshooter's Blues sliding through the night."
-- Curledup.com
"Fulmer brings us a novel dripping with detail, environment, and character."
-- Crime Spree Magazine
"The alchemy of Fulmer's fusion of history, music and literature makes it play like a paean to an era's
corruption and human struggle against the whim of powerful force and injustice."
-- The Critical Mystery Tour