The Dying Crapshooter's Blues by David Fulmer

The third Fulmer novel I have read, and his most recent one. This one moves from the setting of Storyville in New Orleans to 1920s Atlanta. The types of characters and setting really remain the same though. Crooked cops, flawed detective, rounders, gamblers, prostitutes, and blues singers.

I have taken a writing workshop from David, so I have some bias in his favor. He is an excellent writer and teacher.

My only problem with the novel, and I never got a chance to ask David about this, is that there is what I believe are unreliable narrators. He uses the point of view of the crooked cop and the girl who actually did the crime, without revealing their roles at the time. That's borderline "unreliable narrator", and it did bother me.

But otherwise the book is great and well worth a read.