Chasing the Devil’s Tail

Critics Review

• “An exotic and erotic mixture of things we like—jazz, pimps, prostitutes, murder, and dirty politics.”

  Nelson DeMille, New York Times bestselling author

• “In the tradition of The Alienist, Chasing the Devil’s Tail gives us top-notch suspense fiction in a delightfully evocative, and harrowing, time and place: in this case, New Orleans’ Storyville at the beginning of the twentieth century. We immediately fall under author Fulmer’s spell and are soon roaming the authentic haunts of that neighborhood in the company of his characters—some good and some not so, but all wonderfully colorful and as reall as the blues.”

  Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author

• “A beautifully constructed, elegantly presented time trip to a New Orleans of the very early 1900s.”

  Los Angeles Times

• “Captures Storyville in all its creative, mystical, and sordid excess.”

  Atlanta Journal-Constitution

• “A wonderful rendition of a particular world at a very distinctive time.”

  Times-Picayune

• “Debut novelist David Fulmer has created an amazing story, and he makes it look easy.”

  Cleveland Plain Dealer

• “[A] riveting and provocative debut mystery of sex, alcohol, drugs, insanity and murder…Fulmer’s use of historical figures…authenticate[s] an already believable and spellbinding story, which will echo in the reader’s mind like the mournful notes of good blues.”

  Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Dion Graham is a masterful narrator. His clear, crisp voice shifts seamlessly from the storyteller to the myriad characters who populate this fascinating story…The story is energized by a compelling narration, which propels listeners into this sordid slice of American history.”

  AudioFile

• “A fine beginning to what looks like a first-rate historical series.”

  Booklist

• “America, as Whitman recognized with his ever-changing editions of Leaves of Grass, and as early New Orleans musicians beating out red-hot jazz on the anvil of that odd timeless place knew, has never been about being, but about becoming. Our daily lives are mysteries because they’re forever moving away from us. David Fulmer seems to know that, too, and provides in Chasing the Devil’s Tail a mirror to help us keep oriented in this rush forward. I could almost taste fried shrimp and smell the sweetness of magnolia blossoms, almost hear Buddy Bolden’s cornet calling to us across the hot evening.”

  James Sallis, author of Drive and the Lew Griffin mysteries