Someone is systematically burning a working class neighborhood to the ground . . . Liam Mulligan, an old-school reporter at a dying newspaper, thinks the Providence cops are looking in all the wrong places. And people he knows and loves are vanishing in the flames. As the neighborhood burns, Mulligan must find the hand that strikes the match. Publishers Weekly hails Rogue Island as one of the ten best debut novels of 2010, and the book recently won the Mystery Writers of America's prestigious Edgar Award in the best first novel category. “With Rogue Island, Bruce DeSilva accomplishes something remarkable: he takes everything we love about the classic hardboiled detective novel and turns it into a story that’s fresh, contemporary, yet timeless. By turns gripping, funny, and touching, it’s a tale filled with characters so vivid they jump off the page. One of the best debuts I’ve read since Dennis Lehane’s A Drink Before the War.” -- Joseph Finder, New York Times best-selling author of Vanished and Paranoia. What do Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly, Harlan Coben, Ken Bruen, Alafair Burke, Thomas H. Cook, James W. Hall, Ace Atkins, Marcus Sakey, Otto Penzler, Peter Blauner, Tim Dorsey, and Sean Chercover have in common? They are all raving about “Rogue Island!” To hear more, click here. Down load a free chapter here. (pdf)