"One of Australia's most interesting next-gen crime writers."SYDNEY MORNING HERALD"Iain Ryan has learned the lessons of the modern maestros James Ellroy, Ken Bruen and James Sallis, but his poetry and cadence is completely Australian."PETER DOYLEAn ex-con circles back to L.A. and knows it is a mistake. Elsewhere, in Vegas, a restless kid buys a mysterious, stolen guitar. Two characters, worlds apart, but drawn together by the same buried history. Spread across two connected stories, Iain Ryan's What Living And Dying Is Like is about regret and hard-won recovery.Iain Ryan grew up in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. Author of FOUR DAYS (2015), THE STUDENT (2017) and THE SPIRAL (2020).
Erma's Bridges' life is far from perfect, but entirely ordinary, so when she is shot twice in a targeted attack by a colleague, her quiet existence is shattered in an instant. With her would-be murderer dead, no one can give Erma the answers she needs to move on from her trauma. Why her? Why now? So begins Erma's quest for the truth - and a dangerous, spiralling journey into the heart of darkness.
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