
Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Dagger Award | 2021 | Shortlist | |
| Anthony Award for Best Novel | 2019 | Winner | “Lou Berney's Kennedy assassination-era thriller won for its rich period atmosphere, its emotionally complex characters, and its transcendence of genre conventions through genuine literary depth.” |
About This Book
In the days after Kennedy's assassination, a New Orleans mob operative who witnessed too much flees across America, crossing paths with a woman and her two daughters escaping a dead-end life in Oklahoma.
About the Author
Lou Berney is an American crime fiction author known for his dark, literary crime novels. He won the Anthony Award for Best Novel for November Road (2019), a novel that begins with the Kennedy assassination and follows a mob fixer sent to eliminate a witness who saw too much in Dallas. The novel was also shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Read more →
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