Author Peter Blauner discusses Christ in Concrete, an often-overlooked novel about the life of Italian immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1920s and a twelve-year-old boy who must support his family after his father’s untimely death. Most crime novels try to hook you on the first page, or even the first…
A few weeks back, I was drinking with some buddies at a writers’ convention when I felt a tap on the shoulder. “I want to introduce you to a fan,” someone said. Like any dignified author at this stage of my career, I whipped around so fast that the Brooklyn Lager bottle nearly flew out…
The case has been knocking around for as long as novels have been published. There is supposed to be great literature on one side of the divide and grubby disreputable crime fiction on the other. The usual suspects always get trotted out and displayed in the harsh light of the lineup. Did you commit pulp…
Sunrise Highway by Peter Blauner is a new thriller about a lone young cop on the trail of a powerful killer determined not just to stop her but to make her pay. Take a Visual Tour Through Sunrise Highway with GIFnotes! In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found…
Read why Peter Blauner considers Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye to be his favorite crime movie, and then make sure to sign in and comment below for a chance to win a copy of Blauner's sweeping crime novel, Proving Ground! The Long Goodbye isn’t the best crime movie ever made. The Godfather and The Godfather…
Proving Ground by Peter Blauner is a sweeping crime novel, an intricate story about the quest for redemption, and a vibrant portrait of contemporary New York City (available May 2, 2017). Nathaniel Dresden never really got along with his father, an infamous civil rights lawyer who defended criminals and spearheaded protest movements. As an act of…
