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Sex, Thugs, and Rock-n-Roll The wild, daring, sexy and outrageously original crime novel from Anthony Award and Macavity Award nominee Craig Faustus Buck. Nob Brown is a divorced, disillusioned thirty-something ex-cop turned bottom-feeding tabloid writer. His best friend and occasional lover, Gloria Lopes, is an LAPD detective who needs an Excel spreadsheet to chart her sex life. When Gloria slips Nob the confidential file on the unsolved twenty-year-old murder of a legendary rock-and-roll goddess, Nob hopes to solve the crime and propel himself out of the tabloids and into a lucrative book deal. But he pokes into the wrong holes and unearths rotting secrets that give rise to fresh corpses. As the cold case comes to a fast boil, Nob is forced to battle for his own survival.
About the Author
Craig Faustus Buck is a novelist and screenwriter based in Los Angeles, where noir was born. He is a Macavity Award winner for Best Short Story, and a finalist for two Anthonys, the Derringer, the Claymore and the Silver Falchion Awards. Several of his short stories are available free from his website at CraigFaustusBuck.com.
The tale that began in his short story "Dead End" (Anthony Award nominee, 2014) is continued in his first novella "Psycho Logic".
He has also worked as a journalist, photographer, nonfiction book author, writer-producer for network television, and professional limerick writer.
Among his other works, two nonfiction books were #1 NYT bestsellers--one pop-psychology the other pop-gynecology. His short film, "Overnight Sensation", was nominated for an Academy Award. He was one of the writers on the seminal miniseries "V: The Final Battle." He wrote the famous episode where "The Incredible Hulk" dropped acid. And his indie feature "Smuggling for Gandhi" is scheduled for production in 2017.
He is on the national board of the Mystery Writers of America and President of the SoCal Chapter, on the board of Sisters in Crime LA, an active member of the Writers Guild of America and International Thriller Writers, and an avid pitmaster.
