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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Nov 16

My words in the words of others

"The best crime novel of 2024" — The Times

"Superb" — Guardian

"Quite breathtaking" — Daily Mail

"I very much doubt I'll read a better crime novel this year" — Ian Rankin

"Mind-blowing...frankly an amazing piece of work" — Sarah Pinborough

WHITE CITY is out now

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, nice, lovely to hear 🙏

Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · 3d

Going to apply this marketing lesson to all of my books. Henceforth, you can participate in a reading experience of each one for free, with only a small one-time possession fee*.

* one-time for each reading experience. T&Cs apply.

Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · 5d

Me too. Went to his London event last week and had a chat with him and Joe Thomas over a pint afterwards. I remained cool at all times.

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · 18d

He's the only critic I know who does this. Older books are always new to someone, even critics. Good on him.

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Sep 14

Congrats Marco, great to see

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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · Aug 25

My goodness, sounds exciting.

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jorda...

The next epic crime novel from Jordan Harper, a story of Los Angeles power brokers and those at the edge, and a single shattering incident that threatens to bring it all crashing down.

Los Angeles, right now. America with its back up against the wall. This Frankenstein’s monster of crimes and lurid dreams sewn together into something like a city.

A city ready to explode: A Hollywood pedophile is arrested, and is ready to tear down the city to get his freedom. A young woman goes missing — and men in black rubber gloves who look like cops clean out her apartment in the middle of the night. And the serial killer known as the LA Ripper is on the loose, leaving tragic/graphic/brutal crime scenes in his wake. Three people trying to keep their heads above the dirty water will find themselves coming together to unite these strands into one enormous, unspeakable crime …

JAKE DEAL is a gonzo live-streaming nightcrawler, beaming the city’s chaos straight to his audience of blood-hungry subscribers, giving them the view from the top of the mushroom cloud — until a job he can’t refuse drags him back into his old life of Hollywood glamour, drugs, sex and sleaze. Armed with cameras and hidden mics, he’ll infiltrate private clubs, gather high-class dirt — and stumble onto a conspiracy woven into the center of LA’s most powerful men, who call themselves “The Kids in the Candy Store.”

DOUG GIBSON is a street lawyer, who fights for his clients against the army of cops, prosecutors and judges – he is the knife they bring to the gunfight. But when he’s hired by a Hollywood pedophile ready to sell out his friends for a chance for freedom, he’ll take on a fight bigger than he could have imagined. And when his client “commits suicide” in prison, Gibson will have to stop being a weapon – and become a warrior.

KARA DELGADO works for an underground private concierge company – a make-a-wish foundation for the terminally rich. She scores drugs, makes connections, and plans multi-million dollar sex parties.She has learned the secret truth of this world: there are no rules, only prices. Her best friend Phoebe has gone missing, and Kara’s the only person who knows that Phoebe’s place was wiped clean of evidence by men in black rubber gloves. But when she begins to unravel the mystery of what happened to Phoebe, and its connection to the killer known as the LA Ripper, it will drag her into the dark heart of the city.

As Jake, Doug and Kara all investigate these crimes, they’ll encounter ketamine-addled sitcom stars, bloody riots, homeless gangsters, a killer cop on death row, secret vaults in Beverly Hills, tech-bro orgies, medical cannibals, true crime junkies, private security wet-work teams, reality shows, street takeovers, car chases, coyotes, a sadistic Tarzan, and a three day, fifty million dollar wedding, before everything is revealed and they must each make their choice about how to fight back in this violent world before the bloody, blazing conclusion.

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Aug 13

Twenty years after CONTROLLED BURN, his utterly essential American stories, there is finally another Scott Wolven collection. Each of his tales do more in a handful of pages than 99% of novels out there manage in hundreds. This is the real fuel.

Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Aug 2

This book's alright, and now it's incomprehensibly cheap to boot.

WHITE CITY for 99p. At that price, you might as well buy a copy even if you own a dead tree edition.

(Don't worry, authors don't require food or gas or leccy. We are fuelled by spite alone)

www.amazon.co.uk/White-City-s...

White City by Dominic Nolan is 99p on Kindle right now.

Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Aug 1

Oh, Thatcher was way worse. I have something of a soft spot for Rachman as a character, and might return to him in some fuller way.

Glad to hear you enjoyed it, Elwyn!

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Jul 30

Ha, well you wouldn't be the first person to find me unreadable... (there is a French translation coming in October, though, just in case)

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Jul 30

Ah, superb. Good to hear, Nico. Hope it works for you 🤜🤛

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Serenity Booksellers @serenitybookshop.bsky.social · Jul 21

🔪 CRIME FICTION EVENT! 🔪

We’ve a fantastic crime fiction event coming up for next week with two incredible authors! Guy Hale and @dominicnolan.bsky.social will be at our Stockport shop on Thursday 31st July discussing their brilliant new thrillers - PUT OUT THE LIGHT and WHITE CITY.

🎫👇🏻

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Jul 23

Superb. Astonishing book. Congrats!

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Jul 7

Je suis beach ⛱️

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Jul 7

Cheers Laura, appreciate that very much 🤜🤛

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Jul 3

VINE STREET was exceptional, but WHITE CITY goes above and beyond
― Ian Rankin

One of the most interesting, brilliant crime writers around
― Jane Casey

Mind-blowing...so much more than a crime novel
― Sarah Pinborough

Dominic Nolan is one hell of a writer
― Mark Billingham

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Jul 1

Stuff I liked the taste of from the first half of 2025 (list in alt)

Favourite new reads of 2025 so far:

Ripeness - Sarah Moss

A Room Above a Shop - Anthony Shapland

The Doorman - Chris Pavone

Come In and Shut the Door - Chris Petit

Saltwater Mansions – David Whitehouse

The Bureau - Eoin McNamee

Eden's Shore - Oisin Fagan

The Weekenders – David Ross

The Woman Who Laughed - Simon Mason

The Cannibal Owl - Aaron Gwyn

Saint of the Narrows Street - William Boyle

Death Takes Me - Cristina Rivera Garza

The Dream - lain Ryan

Empty Wigs - Jonathan Meade's

The New York Trilogy (graphic edition) - Paul Auster

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Jun 25

I know that feeling. The next thing is always the pesky thing until it's the last thing.

Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Jun 25

Big fan, mate, loved About a Son too. Exciting to see you pressing the form into new shapes.

Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Jun 21

An investigation into the missing occupant of a Margate flat turns into a rumination on the many ways people can disappear from places, and how places change and themselves effectively disappear, and how these things go hand in hand with the various movements of grief. Utterly superb, essential read

Saltwater Mansions, by the incomparable David Whitehouse

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Jun 15

One of the best doing it

Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Jun 1

I always liked this. Woozy Hollywood vampire noir.

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · Jun 1

Fabulous review of VINE STREET by Jeremy Black in The Critic. Satisfying to see a book a few years old make an appearance in press pages, especially with a reviewer not adverse to putting the boot in.

"This is a sprawling masterpiece... A major work of great power."

thecritic.co.uk/murders-for-...

Review of VINE STREET in The Critic magazine this month: My book of the month is one published in 2021 that I have only just read, Dominic Nolan's Vine Street (Headline). Set pre-war, wartime and post-war, this is a sprawling masterpiece kicked off by the murder of a Soho prostitute that becomes an account of London's dark side as well as a morality tale of power and conviction. Well-written, the book is mostly set pre-war but includes a very powerful account of the Blitz. Murders pile up in a plot that encompasses police, villains, MI5, the Abwehr, the Mitfords, and the pressing physicality of people, buildings, violence, food, sex, drugs, smoking and drink. Leon Geats, the protagonist, a tough cop, fights the Flying Squad as much as the gangs, but also sticks to his last in tracking down a disturbing killer. A major work of great power.

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Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social · May 30

Mrs Dalloway

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