Denise Hamilton

Los Angeles Noir Denise Hamilton

Brief Description: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, and others join Hamilton in digging deeper than ever before into the city's glorious noir legacy. Biographical Note: Denise Hamilton writes the Eve Diamond series. Her books have been shortlisted for the Edgar, Macavity, Anthony and Willa Cather awards. The Los Angeles Times named 'Last Lullaby' a 'Best Book of 2004' and it was also a USA Today Summer Pick and a finalist for a Southern California Booksellers Association 2004 award. Publisher Marketing: Brand-new stories by: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Hector Tobar, Patt Morrison, Robert Ferrigno, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Pascoe, Scott Phillips, Diana Wagman, Lienna Silver, Brian Ascalon Roley, and Denise Hamilton. Denise Hamilton writes the Eve Diamond series. Her books have been shortlisted for the Edgar, Macavity, Anthony, and Willa Cather awards. The "Los Angeles Times" named "Last Lullaby" a Best Book of 2004, and it was also a "USA Today" Summer Pick and a finalist for a Southern California Booksellers Association 2004 award. Her fourth Eve Diamond novel, "Savage Garden, " is a "Los Angeles Times" bestseller and was shortlisted for the Southern California Booksellers Association award for Best Mystery of 2005. Review Citations:

Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2007 pg. 77 (EAN 9781933354224, Paperback)

Publishers Weekly 03/05/2007 pg. 43 (EAN 9781933354224, Paperback)

Library Journal 05/15/2007 (EAN 9781933354224, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Contributor Bio:  Hamilton, Denise Denise Hamilton is a writer-journalist whose work has appeared in the "Los Angeles Times", "Cosmopolitan", and "The New York Times" and is the author of five acclaimed Eve Diamond crime novels, "Prisoner of Memory", "Savage Garden", "Last Lullaby", "Sugar Skull", and "The Jasmine Trade", all of which have been "Los Angeles Times" bestsellers. She is also the editor of and a contributor to the short story anthology "Los Angeles Noir", winner of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Mystery of 2007. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two young children. Visit her at www.denisehamilton.com.