Robert Justice is a Denver native. His first novel, They Can't Take Your Name, was named a runner-up for the 2020 Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award.
He believes that together, we can right wrongful convictions.
Justice's new novel is A Dream in the Dark.
At CrimeReads he tagged five favorite books that feature the Mile High City, including:
The Poet by Michael ConnellyRead about the other entries on the list.
Between Connelly’s icons of Detective Harry Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer, Mickey Haller, we find Jack McEvoy—a crime reporterin Denver who specializes in death. In The Poet, McEvoy is a crime writer for the now defunct Rocky Mountain News. His opening line, “Death is my beat” leads us into a world where a poetry quoting killer is on the loose in the streets of Denver murdering homicide cops. As former journalist, Connelly writes what he knows.
The Poet is a serial killer novel compared with the likes of Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs.
--Marshal Zeringue