“White writes beautiful, wrenching prose. . . . stark and unsentimental.”
—Cindy Rosmus, Yellow Mama
“No one else working today crafts such fully-realized characters and puts them through so much strife.”
—Christopher Black, Fahrenheit Press
“Robb White never fails to engage his readers.”
—Edward Squires, Not Quite a Novella
Wade Cardell is in big trouble. Just minutes after he has been fired from his job at a salvage yard in Northtown, Ohio, he gets into an argument with the boss’s nephew on his way out the door that results in the man’s death. Now he’s a wanted felon and the only one he can call to rescue him so he can get back home in time to see his dying mother before the law grabs him is his cousin, a drug-dealing thug and ex-con with ties to the Aryan Brotherhood. He’s the reason Wade did time in a West Virginia prison.
Wade agrees to go in with his cousin on a scheme to break into a couple’s safe while they’re away from the house. The one thing Wade had not counted on was getting involved with someone worse than his cousin when it comes to sticking a knife into your back.
Robb White lives in Northeastern Ohio. Many of his stories and novels feature private investigator Thomas Haftmann: Haftmann’s Rules (2011), Saraband for a Runaway (2013), Nocturne for Madness (2015), and Doggerel for Dead Whores (New Pulp, 2019). Thomas Haftmann, Private Eye (2017) is a collection of 15 stories. In 2019, White was nominated for a Derringer. A crime novel, The Russian Heist, won Thriller Magazine’s Best Novel of 2019 award, and a short story, “Inside Man,” was selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories 2019. A collection of his revenge stories was selected by the Independent Fiction Alliance as a Truly Best Independent Book of 2022.
2nd Place Winner, Whodunit competition, for novella Burning Girl, 2020.