Check out this review of The Fatal Saving Grace by fellow ink-stained wretch Scott Powers, a colleague from my days working at the Orlando Sentinel and author of a crackerjack mystery full of Florida sleaze, sand, bloodshed and desperation — with a radioactive twist, a soon-to-be-published work called The Space Coast Tatler.

Here’s Scott’s review of the latest hard-boiled Ed Earl Burch classic:

Antihero Ed Earl Burch ain’t exactly housebroke—which is a good thing in The Fatal Saving Grace, the latest volume in Jim Nesbitt’s remarkable and often brutal Texas noir series of crime and retribution.

For this latest novel, Nesbitt chisels deep into the west-Texas caliche to unearth a story full of flinty characters, violent and desperate drug and gun runners, and equally violent and desperate lawmen. First among them are the vengeful serial killer Chizik and the cop who tops his hit list and most wants to put him away, the unhousebroke Ed Earl Burch.

With this series, and particularly with this novel, Nesbitt seems to strive for the realms of Gabino Iglesias without monsters, or Cormac McCarthy with punctuation; and his The Fatal Saving Grace comes up worthy.

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