Darryl Wimberley

http://www.darrylwimberley.com

Darryl Wimberley has been recognized for both novels noir and literary work. A Tinker’s Damn won a Foreword Reviews Award for Best Literary Novel in 2001. The King of Colored Town was the first novel to garner The Willie Morris Award for Fiction in 2007. 

More recently, Paul Bunyan won Book of the Year for General Fiction in the 2015 IndieFab Awards. The following year A Seeping Wound won a Goethe Award for Women’s Historical Fiction. His latest novel, Post Facto, is set for release December 2018 with The Permanent Press.

In addition to his literary work, Mr. Wimberley has five critically acclaimed novels in a series one critic has described as “Gulf Coast noir.” These novels feature Special Agent Barrett Raines in narratives set in the Big Bend of Florida’s Gulf Coast. 

Books by Darryl Wimberley

Image of A Rock and a Hard Place
Image of Dead Man's Bay
Image of Strawman's Hammock (Barrett Raines Mystery)
Image of Pepperfish Keys
Image of Devil's Slew: A Barrett Raines Mystery
Image of Kaleidoscope
Image of A Tinker's Damn
Image of The King of Colored Town
Image of A Seeping Wound
Image of PAUL BUNYAN

Book Reviews by Darryl Wimberley

Image of Swim Home to the Vanished: A Novel
Author(s):
Brendan Shay Basham
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction, Native American, Interracial/Multi-ethnic/Cultural Heritage, Contemporary, Families, Magical Realism, Mashups

Swim Home to the Vanished: A Novel

September 15, 2023
Reviewed by: 
Darryl Wimberley

“the author’s voice and language are beautiful.” 

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Author(s):
Ebru Ojen
Translator(s):
Aron Aji, Selin Gökçesu
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction, International Settings, In Translation, Social & Family Issues

Lojman

August 18, 2023
Reviewed by: 
Darryl Wimberley

The first of Ebru Ojen’s works to be translated from Turkish to English, Lojman conducts an unflinching taxonomy of a family’s descent to oblivion.

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Image of The Dance Tree: A Novel
Author(s):
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Genre(s):
Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Literary Fiction

The Dance Tree: A Novel

March 13, 2023
Reviewed by: 
Darryl Wimberley

Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Dance Tree tells more than it shows.

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Image of The Butcher's Daughter: A Novel
Author(s):
Victoria Glendinning
Genre(s):
Historical Fiction, Historical Fiction

The Butcher's Daughter: A Novel

August 7, 2018
Reviewed by: 
Darryl Wimberley

"Victoria Glendinning’s historical novel, The Butcher’s Daughter, offers a richly textured chronicle set in Tudor England . . ."

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