“A cool collection of stories so perfectly of time and place that it’s irresistible.”
—Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times bestseller
"A terrific collection of P.I. stories, demonstrating what the form can achieve and keeping it vital and alive."
—Garry Disher, three-time Ned Kelly Award Winner
Edited by Sean O’Leary and released by Close To The Bone Press, Streets of Your Town: PI Stories gathers a powerhouse line-up of crime writers exploring the dark corners of private investigation. From rain-soaked motels and backstreet bars to corrupt towns and dangerous secrets, these stories follow damaged investigators chasing truths that rarely come clean. Hard-boiled, sharp, and unflinching, this anthology delivers classic PI fiction alongside bold, original takes on the genre. These detectives are flawed, bruised, and often close to losing everything, but they keep digging anyway.
Sean O’Leary is a writer of crime and literary fiction from Melbourne, Australia. He has published five short story collections, two novellas and four novels as well as over fifty individual short stories in journals both literary and crime. He walks through cities, along coasts and on bush tracks. Takes photographs like a madman, does some drawing and thinks test cricket is the greatest game of all.
I write crime novels that are fast paced, action filled stories featuring relentless protagonists who never give up.
I write crime and literary short story collections filled with slices of life that will make you laugh and cry and break your heart.
My crime novels are also translated into Spanish and Portuguese.
