That Left Turn at Albuquerque

A hardboiled valentine to the Golden State, That Left Turn at Albuquerque marks the return of noir master Scott Phillips.

Douglas Rigby, attorney-at-law, is bankrupt. He s just sunk his last $200,000 a clandestine loan from his last remaining client, former bigshot TV exec Glenn Haskill into a cocaine deal gone wrong. The lesson? Never trust anyone else with the dirty work. Desperate to get back on top, Rigby formulates an art forgery scheme involving one of Glenn s priceless paintings, a victimless crime. But for Rigby to pull this one off, he ll need to negotiate a whole cast of players with their own agendas, including his wife, his girlfriend, an embittered art forger, Glenn s resentful nurse, and the man s money-hungry nephew. One misstep, and it all falls apart will he be able to save his skin?

Written with hard-knock sensibility and wicked humor, Scott Phillips s newest novel will cement him as one of the great crime writers of the 21st century.

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Longlisted for the 2020 CWA Gold Dagger

Praise for That Left Turn at Albuquerque

Many writers bill themselves as noir, but if you want to experience what the word truly means, in its finest expression, then pick up That Left Turn at Albuquerque, a brutally funny, wickedly clever nightmare that heralds the triumphant return of Scott Phillips, the twenty-first century's greatest purveyor of crime fiction.
Blake Crouch, author of Recursion and the Wayward Pines trilogy

In That Left Turn at Albuquerque, Phillips displays a master alchemist s touch. No one blends the elements of happenstance, malevolence, unintended consequences, irony and humor into crime fiction magic like Phillips. No one!
Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times bestselling author of What You Break

A hilarious, twisty, dark, and profane romp deep into a modern noir world. The people in a Scott Phillips novel are so damn authentic, they remind me of folks I met while c overing the crime beat. Phillips proves once again why he's one of the best crime writers out there.
Ace Atkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Shameless

"The cover of St. Louis writer Scott Phillips That Left Turn at Albuquerque shows a parked sports car gleaming in the sunshine. But behind that sunny cover looms a dark story a noir tale, acted out by some shady souls."
St. Louis Today

"The one persistent problem with reading a Scott Phillips novel is you can never figure out who you re supposed to root for. You meet a series of engaging characters, all of them relatable -- and then you realize they re all liars, cheats and maybe worse."
The Oregonian

Phillips is the real deal . . . Noir and black comedy have always been kissin cousins, but here they re locked in a torrid embrace.
Booklist

Praise for Scott Phillips

Funny, craftily malevolent . . . An ice-pick-sharp crime story that sustains its film-no ir energy all the way to an outrageous whammy of an ending.
The New York Times

[The author] has a way of writing a bon vivant of the Wild West with testosterone raging without it appearing macho or obnoxious or egocentric . . . It is a joy to read Phillips.
Huffington Post

Taut and vicious . . . The essence of noir.
Los Angeles Times

Phillips is dark, dangerous, and important . . . Crime fiction at its best.
Michael Connelly

The unparalleled master of the noir anti-hero.
Megan Abbott

One of the most original practitioners of noir working today.
Spinetingler Magazine