Blacktop Wasteland

Anthony Award for Best Novel · 2021 · Winner

Flatiron BooksJuly 14, 2020mystery-crimeISBN 9781250252746

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Anthony Award for Best Novel	2021	Winner	“S.A. Cosby's debut major novel won the Anthony for its kinetic pacing, its sympathetic portrait of a man trapped by his past, and its authentic depiction of working-class Black Southern life.”

About This Book

Beauregard 'Bug' Montage is a gifted wheelman trying to go straight for his family, until a desperate job pulls him back into the criminal world he tried to leave behind, in this high-octane Southern crime novel.

About the Author

S. A. CosbyUS

S.A. Cosby is an American crime fiction author from Gloucester County, Virginia, known for his hardboiled crime novels set in the American South. He is one of the most celebrated voices in contemporary crime fiction, praised for his kinetic prose, complex characters, and unflinching depictions of race, class, and violence in rural Virginia. Read more →