DETECTIVE FICTION – A.M. Potter | AUTHOR SITE and BLOG
To celebrate the release anniversary of THE COLOR RED, North Noir is giving away 5 signed anniversary edition ebooks. To win an ebook, simply send an email to amp-northnoir@outlook.com with ‘WIN TCR Ebook‘ in the subject line.
Contest closes April 16, 2026. Winners selected at random.
Author Interview from WriteStats, March 22, 2026.
INTERVIEW OPENING:
“In a publishing industry often driven by speed, trends, and algorithms, A.M. Potter represents something increasingly rare: a writer grounded in discipline, literary tradition, and narrative restraint.
A Canadian author with three published novels — Bay of Blood, The Color Red, and Silver Moon Rising — Potter writes within the literary detective and noir fiction space, where atmosphere matters, but clarity matters more.
Published by Stark House Press and Black Opal Books, A.M. Potter’s work reflects a core philosophy that becomes clear throughout this interview:
“You control your literary touches… and put the narrative arc first.”
This single insight encapsulates not just Potter’s writing style but a broader truth about what keeps readers engaged in modern fiction ….”
See full interview at: https://writestats.com/a-m-potter-interview/
I was travelling for much of Fall 2025 and let my book reviewing lapse. Now that I’m back in Canada, here’s a favourite read from the past six months.
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, 2021. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Irish Times Readers’ Choice for Best Irish Book of the Century.
Small Things Like These delivers storytelling at its finest. Not a wasted word.
Keegan’s 2021 novella is a masterpiece of tone and fidelity, powerfully evocative of life in Ireland. The tale is reminiscent of The Dead, a short story in James Joyce’s Dubliners. Both are Irish gems.
Sit in front of a hearth with a loved one and read Keegan’s book out loud to them.
FALMOUTH, CAPE COD, MASSACHUSETTS
Detective Ivy Bourque’s hometown in The Color Red & Silver Moon Rising.
(The photo shows the tidy side of Cape Cod. The dark side? It’s in the telling. To download free previews, click the links below.)
Anyone who’s been to ‘The Rock’ knows Newfoundlanders love to tell stories. I can’t think of any Newfoundland and Labrador author more accomplished than Michael Crummey.
Over a span of six novels, from River Thieves (2001) to The Adversary (2023), Crummey has wrangled and harnessed Newfoundland English, transforming an ever-changing spoken vernacular into prose – a difficult task, one he’s discharged with flying colours.
Each of Crummey’s novels is both a haunting tale and a feast of words. He spins splendid descriptions and memorable dialogs. If you want to hear Newfoundland and feel it too, pick up a Crummey novel.
Crummey’s latest, The Adversary, winner of the 2025 International Dublin Literary Award, catapults the reader to the fishing port of Mockbeggar, Newfoundland. It’s the late 1700s. One year the Atlantic is choked with cod; the next, it’s barren. One day the sky is clear; the next, it’s a howling grey wolf. The novel delivers an evocative tale, an unsparing story of two warring siblings.
PS: List of Michael Crummey novels in order of publication: River Thieves (2001); The Wreckage (2005); Galore (2009); Sweetland (2014); The Innocents (2019); The Adversary (2023). Crummey has also published poetry, short stories, and non-fiction. For further information, see the author on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crummey.
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