AWARDS

Shortlisted for CWA “First Novel” Dagger

PRESS

When a Book Deal Feels Like ‘Winning the Middle-Age Lottery’ (New York Times)

Dann McDorman on Exploring Literary Hijinks and Meta Mystery (Crimereads)

Everyone is a Suspect at Isolated Hunting Lodge in Irresistible Murder Mystery (BookTrib)

First Writes: Dann McDorman (The List)

Q&A: debut novelist Dann McDorman (BookBrunch)

Knopf Bets on West Heart Kill (Publishers Weekly)

Raven Books pre-empts McDorman’s ‘outrageously original’ meta-crime novel (The Bookseller)

REVIEWS

Guardian (“doesn’t so much break the fourth wall as crash through it in a bulldozer…very well executed”)

NPR (“sheer catnip for readers”)

Crimereads (“The Ice Storm as if written by Borges, then solved by Chandler”)

Waterstones (“thrillingly unique”)

Booklist (“clever, unusual, and enormously entertaining”)

Publishers Weekly (“wily debut [that] breaks the fourth wall immediately”)

Book Page (”sure to spawn exceptionally lively book club debates”)

Belfast Telegraph (“Both honoring the classic crime genre and turning it on its head… a unique read”)

Set the Tape (“the novel has an audacious twist… may well prove to be one of the most discussed mysteries of the year…”)

the I (“one of the most unique and meta murder mysteries you will read all year”)

PODCASTS

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Writer’s Routine

Quick Book Reviews

Second Act Stories

Moviestruck

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CRITICS’ PICKS

Amazon Editors’ Pick: Best Books of the Month

Waterstones Books of the Month

Crime Reads Most Anticipated Crime Fiction of Fall 2023

American Book Association Indie Next List

LibraryReads Top 10 List

Perspective “Thriller of the Month”

Mysterious Book Shop: First Mystery Crime Club Pick