The best gangster novel I’ve ever read. The writing is first class, and the action is nonstop.
– Stephen King
Juxtaposes shootouts, narrow escapes, vengeance, and justice, against family bonds, loyalty, love, motherhood, and memory, capped off with an ending you won’t see coming.
– Lisa Wingate,
author of Before We Were Yours
This will be the bar to which other historical crime fiction will be measured. Read Die Famous the moment it comes out.
– David Baldacci
Both big-hearted and thrilling. I loved this perfectly written tommy gun of a novel.
– Ariel Lawhon, NYT bestselling author of The Frozen River
Enthralling historical thrillerÂ
– Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review
Riveting, vividly-written novel
– Marie Bostwick, NYT and USA Today bestselling author
A thrilling—and thrillingly layered—read
– Melanie Benjamin, NYT bestselling novelist
Superbly written and stunning
– Library Journal Starred Review
New York Times Bestselling Author
MIchael Koryta|Scott Carson
Michael Koryta is a New York Times-bestselling author whose work has been translated into more than 20 languages and has won or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar® Award, Shamus Award, Barry Award, Quill Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the Golden Dagger.
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The Associated Press Feels Claustrophobic
The Associated Press has spoken–
“Koryta punctuates the intense underground scenes of LAST WORDS with claustrophobia so realistic that it’s palpable. He wrings every moment of excitement possible in this outstanding launch of a new series.”
Check out Oline H. Cogdill’s full review in The Washington Post:Â http://wapo.st/1MAhk7k
Huffington Post Feels LAST WORDS’ Chill
Post’s Jackie Cooper feels the Indiana cold in LAST WORDS:
“Koryta uses the elements of the winter in Indiana to add chill to his story. Then he overlays that with any reader’s feeling of claustrophobia by taking Novak deep down into the bowels of the earth.”
Read the full review:Â http://huff.to/1KfxNiv
Tampa Bay Times Reviewer Reads LAST WORDS in the Daylight

A Tampa Bay Times reviewer has to read LAST WORDS in the daylight–
“I wasn’t more than a third of the way into Michael Koryta’s Last Words late one recent evening when I closed its covers and started browsing Netflix for silly sitcoms. I knew that before I put my head on the pillow I needed to shake the searing image of the book’s protagonist waking up drugged, naked and freezing, lost deep underground in the utter darkness of a vast cave — or risk having it show up in my dreams.”Â
Read her full review:Â http://bit.ly/1KhJxzI






