Ed Lynskey
Ed Lynskey was interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay.
Local mystery writer Ed Lynskey lives in Annandale, Virginia. He is the author of the recently published, The Blue Cheer and The Dirt Brown Derby, both feature his P.I. Frank Johnson. Other books in the series include Pelham Fell Here and Troglodytes.
Lynskey has worked in the defense industry, including 18 years on the production and development of Stinger missiles. Such a missile figures prominently in The Blue Cheer.
His crime fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and his book reviews and other work have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times and the Washington Post.
From reviews of Lynskey’s novels:
“Set in the remote mountains of West Virginia, this gritty contemporary detective novel, Lynskey's second to feature former PI Frank Johnson (after 2006's The Dirt-Brown Derby), will remind many of such masters of hard-boiled prose as Loren Estleman.”
– Publishers Weekly
“This is the second novel to feature Frank Johnson (following The Dirty-Brown Derby, 2006) and it definitely lives up to the buzz the author has been generating among genre enthusiasts. Lynskey has a sure hand, and he tackles the PI genre like a veteran, packing the book with great lines like ‘Awaking the next morning on the cusp of the DTs, I quit drinking cold turkey, a knack the Black Irish carry in their genes.’”
– BookList