Read More: More Bio Jim Fusilli is the author of the award-winning Terry Orr series, which includes Hard, Hard City, named Best Novel of 2004 by Mystery Ink magazine. He's also the author of Closing Time, A Well-Known Secret and Tribeca Blues, which feature New York City-based private investigator Terry Orr and his daughter Bella. In 2005, his book on Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys' album, Pet Sounds, was published by Continuum. In 2006, Jim's short fiction appeared in seven anthologies alongside work by his influences Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Walter Mosley and Lawrence Block, and contemporaries he admires including Peter Blauner, Ken Bruen, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, George Pelecanos and S.J. Rozan, among others. Also in 2006, Jim served as Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Binghamton. Jim's fiction has enjoyed glowing reviews from readers and critics. Said The New York Times, "Jim Fusilli's noir novels are like cobblestones - smooth and hard and deeply embedded in the streets of New York." According to Kirkus Reviews, Jim's "noir prose is peerless, as is his darkly romantic portrait of the Big Apple." "Fusilli is simply incredible," said Bookreporter.com. "(He) is that rare writer who both created and fulfilled the promise of greatness of his first novel…the ongoing creation of a new legend." Jim also writes for The Wall Street Journal, for which he has served as a rock and pop critic since 1983. He is an occasional contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe.