Harry MacLean is a lawyer and writer based in Denver, Colorado. He is the author of In Broad Daylight, which won an Edgar Award for Best True Crime and was a New York Times bestseller for twelve weeks; his second book, Once Upon A Time: A True Story of Memory, Murder, and the Law was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and his third book, The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Search for Redemption was shortlisted for the William Saroyan Award, given by Stanford University.
Praise for The Joy of Killing
"Told in dark lyrical prose and revealing a master's command of the
form, it's a rousing — though not an unqualified — success... I
devoured it greedily, in part because MacLean writes gripping
prose, in part because the book is masterfully constructed, and in
part, yes, because of those lurid details."—Los Angeles Review of
Books
"The Joy of Killing is a sophisticated philosophical thriller, its
gothic vibes rooted in the murky soil of human behavior. Like a
modern day Edgar Allen Poe, Harry MacLean knows how to manipulate
the reader in all the best ways, right up to the novel's shocking
ending." —Tod Goldberg, author of Gangsterland, Finalist for the
2014 Hammet Prize
"A man's desperate struggle to recapture his past propels this
brilliant first novel from Edgar Awardwinning true crime writer
MacLean . . . MacLean skillfully takes readers along as the
narrator spins and stumbles through a tangle of disturbing
meditations on innocence and guilt."—Publisher's Weekly Starred
Review
"[A] dreamlike novel...MacLean's writing is lyrical, ebbing and
flowing like a deep riptide that conceals the danger beneath...A
dizzying and delirious meditation on desire, violence, guilt, and
philosophical justification...Yet it's almost impossible to resist
the pull of the tide."—Kirkus
"Not since American Psycho has there been a novel as unnerving and
relentless as Harry N. Maclean's compulsively readable The Joy of
Killing. Inventive. Supremely twisted. And did I say unnerving?"
—Gregg Olsen, New York Times best–selling author
"Harry MacLean has long been without peer at performing the alchemy
required to turn the often banal facts of true crime into
narratives as alluring as any fiction. In The Joy of Killing, he
focuses his profound talents on a lyrical, relentless story that is
at once literary and hardboiled. The Joy of Killing is an
unblinking vision into a world where the currencies are elastic
versions of eroticism, memory, tragedy, and violence, where a
measure of vertigo is the norm, and where morality is a variable,
never a constant. A complex, stunning novel." —Stephen White, New
York Times best–selling author
"Harry MacLean's rich layering of reality and fantasy draws the
reader into a vortex of turbulent images. The Joy of Killing is a
brilliant look into a man's soul, a look that both fascinates and
repels as it hurtles the reader toward an extraordinary ending. A
major literary achievement." —Sandra Dallas, New York Times
best–selling author
"Harry MacLean's dark vision of crime and betrayal match perfectly
with his abilities as a master stylist. Readers will not soon
forget The Joy of Killing's surreal, nightmarish sequences, nor its
chilling conclusion." —Diane Mott Davidson, New York Times
best–selling author
Praise for In Broad Daylight:
"Gripping
excellent and disturbing
a fine and richly rewarding
book." —The Washington Post Book World
"First–class
Read and you may find yourself haunted." —Houston
Chronicle
"A guaranteed page–turner. [A] truly compelling
piece of
reporting." —Rocky Mountain News Sunday Magazine
"The Edgar Award winner takes readers right where they want to
go—inside the story." —Gregg Olsen, bestselling author of The Girl
in the Woods
"Honest and intriguing. The riveting back story of MacLean's true
crime classic
a can't miss read!" — Kathryn Casey, bestselling
author of Deadly Little Secrets
"An engrossing, credible examination of the way vigilante action
can take over when the law appears to be powerless." —Publishers
Weekly
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