The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne - "One of the best crime novels of 2025"

A wild, blackly funny, brilliantly twisty literary-crime novel, like an unholy coming together of Tana French and the Cohen brothers.

About the author

Ron Currie is the award-winning author of five novels. He has won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award, the Alex Award, and the Pushcart Prize. His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and his short fiction and nonfiction have received recognition in Best American anthologies. As a screenwriter he worked most recently on the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations and has developed projects with AMC Studios, Amblin Television, and ITV America. He lives in Portland, Maine, and teaches in the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA program.

Summary

A wild, blackly funny, brilliantly twisty literary-crime novel, like an unholy coming together of Tana French and the Cohen brothers.

Foreword

A wild, blackly funny, brilliantly twisty literary-crime novel, like an unholy coming together of Tana French and the Cohen brothers.

Product details

• Authors: Ron Currie
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.04.2025
• EAN: 9781805463887
• ISBN: 978-1-80546-388-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Thriller: organised crime