Popular R.I. News Site Calls "Rogue Island" a "Rich and Wonderful Book"

I've never met Robert Corrente, but I couldn't have chosen a better man to review my Edgar Award-winning crime novel, Rogue Island.

Why? Because he lived for decades in Rhode Island, where the novel is set. Better yet, he's a former U.S. Attorney for the state, a guy who knows a thing or two about crime in Little Rhody. And, as it turns out, the guy writes well to boot.

So I'm thrilled that a guy who knows the landscape so well loved the book. Writing for GolocalProv.com, Corrente says in part:

"The book is a triumph on many levels."

"First, it is a top-notch piece of crime fiction."

"Second, DeSilva has a reporter's sharp eye for geographical detail, and his sketches of the Providence cityscape perfectly capture the strange blend of beauty and blight, glitz and grit that make this town what it is."

"These virtues alone would more than carry Rogue Island. But what makes the book so special to anyone who has spent the last twenty-five or thirty years here, and who has paid attention, is that it provides an almost encyclopedic account of the criminal and political histories of Rhode Island, which have more bad intersections than Atwells Avenue."

"In sum, this is a rich and wonderful book that reeks of all that is good and bad about Rhode, or Rogue, Island."

Thank you, Robert Corrente and GolocalProv.com.  You can read the entire review here

Rogue Island will be published in trade paperback on June 21 and is available for pre-order now. A Kindle version is also available. You can purchase them here.

A downloadable audio version produced by Audible can be purchased here.

The hardcover edition is still available, but supplies are short.