The Associated Press Raves About “A Scourge of Vipers”
The AP says: “Edgar Award-winning author Bruce DeSilva delivers another outstanding mystery featuring his Providence, Rhode Island, investigative journalist Liam Mulligan in A Scourge of Vipers.”
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So far, the reviews have been unanimous.
Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, two of the bibles of the publishing industry, have both given in coveted starred reviews, the latter calling it ���quality all the way.���
The Providence Journal review says: ���DeSilva plainly belongs in the company of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, a contemporary tour guide through society���s seedy underbelly who has fashioned a masterpiece of hard-boiled crime melodrama.���
And James Lee Burke, a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, says: ���Bruce DeSilva writes a story in the tradition of Hammett and Higgins, and he writes it with the knowledge of an old-time police reporter. DeSilva knows cops, corruption in eastern cities, wiseguys, rounders, bounders, gamblers, and midnight ramblers. He writes with authority about the issues of our times, and he does it with honesty and candor. If you want a hardboiled view of how a city actually works, this is your book.���
