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John Joseph Ryan

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Born

in The United States

Website

https://johnjosephryanauthor.wordpress.com/

Genre

Crime, Mystery, Poetry

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Member Since

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John Joseph Ryan writes unusual tales, verse noir, and crime fiction. His work has appeared in River Styx, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Akashic Books' Mondays Are Murder series, Mystery Weekly, Shotgun Honey, Suspense Magazine, and in anthologies such as Noir Riot and Grievous Bodily Harm. John’s collaborative noir short, “Hothouse by the River,” was produced in association with the University of Iowa Center for the Book. His debut novel, A Bullet Apiece, was published in 2015 and became a bestseller for Amphorae Publishing Group. A Lincolnphile, he contributed a chapter on Lincoln and Walt Whitman in the textbook Teaching Lincoln: Legacies and Classroom Strategies. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri. ...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 182 ratings · 43 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Bullet Apiece: Saint Louis Noir 3.72 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Terrors Vol. 24 by Scare Street (Editor), Daniel Conyers (Goodreads Author), S.C. Vincent (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rock and a Hard Place, Issue 5: Winter/Spring by Roger Nokes, Thomas Pluck, Claude Lalumière (Goodreads Author) 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still of Winter by Robin Knabel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), H. Dair Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bev Vincent (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mystery Weekly Magazine: May 2021 by Mystery Weekly Magazine, Kerry Carter (Editor), Saul Golubcow 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Museum Piece: An unusual collection by B. Morris Allen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Arlen Feldman, Dominick Cancilla (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grievous Bodily Harm: A Hardboiled Anthology by Sam M. Phillips (Editor), Adam Bennett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Joseph Ryan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L is for Lycans by P.J. Blakey-Novis (Goodreads Author), Daniel R. Robichaud (Goodreads Author), Carlton Herzog (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	"On Furlough" 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tough Breaks 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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John Ryan made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Adding my name to a book, part 3 topic " Greetings one more time! I'd like to add my name to the book Museum Piece, ISBN 9781640763623 (ISBN10: 1640763627) and ASIN 1640763627. I have a story ...more "
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“Scientifically speaking, the flesh was melted off the world. His body was macerated until only the nerve fibers were left. It was spread like a veil upon a rock.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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