Monthly Archives: July 2016

Kirkus Calls “The Dread Line” a Heartfelt Anatomy of Crime & Punishment

Kirkus Reviews, one of the bibles of the publishing industry, calls The Dread Line, the fifth novel in my Edgar Award-winning crime-novel series, “a clear-eyed, heartfelt anatomy of crime and punishment in Rhode Island.” Here’s more of what they had … Continue reading

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Our European Tour, Part I: A Rainy Day in London

Over the next week, I’ll be posting some photos my poet-wife Patricia Smith and I took on our recent four-city European tour in July. Today’s installment: It wouldn’t have been London without a rainy day.

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Rhode Island Public Radio Raves About “The Dread Line”

This is what Scott MacKay of Rhode Island Public Radio says about The Dread Line, the fifth book in my Edgar Award-winning series of crime novels: “Bruce DeSilva is to Rhode Island what James Lee Burke is to Louisiana. . … Continue reading

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Best-Selling Mystery Writer Reed Farrel Coleman Raves About “THE DREAD LINE”

Reed Farrel Coleman, the best-selling mystery author who is now writing the Jesse Stone series originated by the late Robert B. Parker, says this about the latest book in my Edgar Award-winning series of hard-boiled crime novels: “From the great … Continue reading

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