The folks at Hard Case Crime have outdone themselves this month. While the company is known for re-publishing quality out-of-print titles, most of those selections were written decades ago. Not so with this month's new release Casino Moon by Peter Blauner -- it debuted just 15 years ago.
So why re-publish such a relatively "new" title? According to Editor Charles Ardai, "Because I love this book. And I don't think it got the readership or the attention it deserved the first time out . . .Casino Moon came and went largely unnoticed, despite telling one of the most involving crime stories, about some of the most memorable characters, I've read in years."
At the time Casino Moon was first published, author Peter Blauner had already won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel with Slow Motion Riot, but he hadn't yet become the New York Times best-selling author that he would with his next book, The Intruder.
"Plus," Ardai added, "bringing this book back into print gave me the chance to commission a boxing cover illustration from the brilliant painter Ricky Mujica, who was himself a Gold Gloves boxer before swapping right hooks and upercuts for brushstrokes."
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