Ryan David Jahn grew up in Arizona, Texas, and California. He finished school at sixteen, worked several odd jobs, and spent time in the army before moving to Los Angeles, where he worked in television and film for several years. His first novel, Good Neighbors, won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasy (New Blood) Dagger Award, and his novel The Dispatcher was longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. Translation rights to his books have been sold in twelve languages. Jahn lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife, Jessica, and two daughters, Matilda and Francine.
"Compelling, slick, exuberant, flashy, funny, fierce, and cinematic
. . . Deftly written with panache and polish . . . This remarkable
novel, a lean, psychologically unsettling noir tale, will stay with
you long after you put it down and regretfully say, 'I wish I wrote
that.'"
-"Library Journal," starred review
"One of the best books I have ever read. . . . The writing is
powerful, it takes hold of you from the first page and that hold
gets tighter and tighter until the heart-wrenching ending. It was
impossible to put down. "Good Neighbors" is a book not to be
missed."
-Kendall Gutierrez, "Suspense Magazine"
"Intensely gripping . . . A fine and memorable novel."
-"Booklist," starred review
"Heart-stopping."
-"Library Journal"
"Darkly powerful . . . Jahn inhabits these people and their
problems so completely and convincingly that they don't seem like
monsters even as they ignore the woman who's dying only a few yards
away."
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"One of the best books I have ever read. . . . The writing is
powerful, it takes hold of you from the first page and that hold
gets tighter and tighter until the heart-wrenching ending. It was
impossible to put down. "Good Neighbors" is a book not to be
missed."
-Kendall Gutierrez, "Suspense Magazine"
"Intensely gripping . . . A fine and memorable novel."
-"Booklist," starred review
"Heart-stopping."
-"Library Journal"
"Darkly powerful . . . Jahn inhabits these people and their
problems so completely and convincingly that they don't seem like
monsters even as they ignore the woman who's dying only a few yards
away."
-"Kirkus Reviews"
"A terrific debut . . . A wonderfully visual book-the effect is of
watching, unseen, through a dozen different windows as Jahn
switches from one scenario to the next. Powerful, compassionate and
authentic, it works both as a mystery and as a snapshot of America
in the early 1960s."
-"The Guardian
"Intensely gripping . . . A fine and memorable novel."
-"Booklist", starred review
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