Dead Man's Blues

Praise for Dead Man Blues:“[A] solid 1950s-set whodunit … taut suspense … a page-turner.”—Publishers Weekly“In Dead Man Blues, sins of the past have a way of resurfacing. Add in an unforgettable cast, a riveting murder investigation, and a richly complex portrait of the small-town South, and I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. S.D. House will be your new favorite mystery writer.”—Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling author of The Frame-Up“Not only a solid page-turner of a crime novel, but an intimate view into mid-century rural life. Everybody knows everybody, their secrets, their histories, and their loyalties. House is a wonderful writer and Dead Man Blues will keep you guessing until the end.”—Chris Offutt, author of the Mick Hardin series

S. D. House is the pen name of New York Times bestselling author Silas House, who is the author of seven novels, including his most recent, Lark Ascending, which was a Booklist Editors’ Choice and is the winner of the 2023 Southern Book Prize and the 2023 Nautilus Book Award. In 2022 he was the recipient of the Duggins Prize, the largest award for an LGBTQ writer in the nation. In 2023 he was inducted as the Poet Laureate of Kentucky for 2023-2025 and became a Grammy finalist. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Time, Garden & Gun, and The New York Times. House teaches at Berea College and at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Creative Writing.