“City of Grudges captures my hometown of Pensacola, Florida, much the same way Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil immortalized Savannah.”City of Grudges” captures my hometown of Pensacola, Florida much the same way.
“Rick Outzen’s Southern thriller moves his colorful characters through the corruption of small town politics while looking through the piercing gaze of Walker Holmes–a newspaper publisher that his friends either want to drink with or punch out. Readers get a gripping front row seat of Walker’s wild ride.” —JOE SCARBOROUGH, Co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe
“Outzen’s twenty-year experience as a newspaper journalist has shaped him into an innovative and skilled storyteller. His first novel captures the voice of the Deep South in a way that would make Flannery O’Connor proud.
“I hope “City of Grudges” is only the beginning of a long series of books we see from this write.” —MIKE PAPANTONIO, Bestselling author of Law and Disorder and Law and Vengeance
“With City of Grudges, Rick Outzen directs the Florida glare onto his adopted city of Pensacola as brilliantly as Carl Hiaasen has done for so many years to South Florida.
“Corruption, dead bodies and smooth, wise-cracking dialogue pile up as quickly as cars in a I-95 fender-bender. The newspaperman-as-hero is in safe, entertaining hands with Rick (or Rick Outzen) so move over all you Florida crime novelists—there’s a new pen in town! ”
—W. HODDING CARTER, author of Stolen Water: Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida.