Author Craig McDonald

Nominated for Edgar® Award

Nominated for Anthony Award

Nominated for Gumshoe Award

Shortlisted for Crimespree Magazine Award

On the The San Francisco Chronicle's Top 10 List!

Equal parts road novel, caper and historical fiction, Head Games is a black comedy and wistful ballad of lost America rooted in borderland myth and history.

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It's not art until somebody dies: Toros & Torsos pits novelist Hector Lassiter against a cabal of killer surrealists in a historical saga spanning decades and continents… a noir love story turning on dark scholarship pointing to an underground of killer artists who might have gotten away with Hollywood's most infamous, unsolved murder.

"This is granite poetry in all its stone glory."
   — KEN BRUEN, PRIEST

"Knowing and artful...the suspense pushes at a lovely pace until it starts to stomp like Hemingway on an empty bota."
   — DANIEL WOODRELL, WINTER'S BONE

"Lush, sprawling...Hector Lassiter, a complicated, rueful and haunted Ernest Hemingway and dozens more draw us close to their chests, anchor us, win our favor and, in the end, break our hearts."
   — MEGAN ABBOTT, QUEENPIN

"Deftly mixes myth, history and a serial killer who arranges dead bodies to resemble surrealistic art. McDonald's imaginative tale takes an enjoyably different approach to art and murder."
   —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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"One of the most unusual, and readable, crime-fiction releases to come along in years. An exceptional debut."
   —CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"Terrific, a real discovery."
   —LAURA LIPPMAN

"Smart...funny... moves like a roach when the lights go on."
   —JAMES SALLIS

"Like reliving those wonderful and exciting, tequila-fired weekend border-town tours of my youth."
   —JAMES CRUMLEY

"Touches chords of myth, history, loss and redemption just enough so you can hear echoes faintly under the gunfire."
   —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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Special limited edition of 250 signed, numbered, fingerprinted copies available from select mystery bookstores and Bleak House Books. Details here.