Bluesman Rick Estrin reading my novel, “A Scourge of Vipers.”
Rick Estrin is one of the best blues harmonica players in creation. His vocals fronting his kickin’ band, The Nightcats, are damned good, too. And he’s a brilliant songwriter to boot. You can learn more about Rick and his music here.
I first met Rick on a blues cruise last fall, and we immediately hit it off. It turns out he’s a big crime fiction fan. We had a long bar conversation about is favorite writer, the late, great Elmore Leonard. That’s when I snapped the photo.
Liam Mulligan, the hero of my Edgar Award-winning series of crime novels, loves the blues as much as I do, listening to the likes of Buddy Guy, Tommy Castro, Jimmy Thackery and others as he cruises around New England looking for trouble. And Roomful of Blues, a band fronted by my buddy Phil Pemberton, has made an appearance in two of the novels.
A Scourge of Vipers by Bruce DeSilva is the fourth book in the series, which has received rave reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, and a host of other publications. You can order any of them from independent or chain online bookstores by following this link.
Bruce DeSilva's Rogue Island 