Author Peter Blauner

This is the website of Peter Blauner, author of the Edgar-award winning Slow Motion Riot and the New York Times best-seller, The Intruder. Peter's latest novel, Slipping Into Darkness is now available in paperback.

Watch a Slipping into Darkness video (AOL users click here). You'll need QuickTime 7.0 to view this video. You can download quickly here. A Windows Media version is available here.

Also, after a long-sojourn in the underworld of Forgotten Books, Peter's second novel, Casino Moon, will finally be seeing print again as part of the splendidly–illustrated Hard Case Crime paperback series, which has also revived titles by Pete Hamill, Lawrence Block and Donald Westlake. The book should be out in May, 2009.

PRAISE for SLIPPING INTO DARKNESS

"The best New York thriller of the moment...wears its urban authority with ease."
   —Janet Maslin, New York Times

"It may very well be the crime novel of the year."
   —USA Today

"His portrait has a complexity that few authors could achieve."
   —The New Yorker

"Raw, savvy...A mystery with satisfying moral heft..."
   —Newsweek

"One of the best books I've read in a long, long time."
   —Stephen King

"Sublime"
   —Boston Globe

Read more reviews here.

NYC photo credit: Lynn Saville