E.F.
Espeut III
Sharp, atmospheric storytelling that moves between crime, thriller, and dark comedy — unafraid of the shadows, and just as unafraid to laugh in them.
The Author
"E.F. Espeut III writes dark, interconnected fiction — stories that move between crime, thriller, and myth."
Black Robes, his latest novel, is a thriller about inheritance, complicity, and what a family will bury to protect its name.
Eric is Afro-Latino, born and raised in New York, and has spent his career on the other side of the camera in broadcast television — two Emmys' worth of it — work he still does today. The instincts carry over wherever he's telling a story: what a scene needs, when to hold back, when to let it land.
Books
Black Robes
They gave her a name that opens doors. A father the city calls honorable. A church that raised her, a school that made her, a legacy she has spent her whole life trying to deserve. She never thought to ask what any of it was built on.
Now a man who has been dead for thirty years has turned up in a Washington library, and three people who have never met are each holding a piece of the same answer — a detective who does not believe in coincidence, a reporter with nothing left to lose, and a woman about to learn that the men who raised her have been protecting something since before she was born.
Some inheritances are not gifts. They are debts. And somebody always comes to collect.
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Side Effects May Include Death
A drug deal gone catastrophically wrong turns a city's downtrodden into flesh-hungry zombies — and three unwitting dealers with more street smarts than scientific acumen become the unlikely heroes tasked with cleaning up the mess they made.
Chainsaws gone wild, rival gangs, opportunistic survivors, and a healthy dose of accidental heroism: comedic horror in the vein of Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and Shaun of the Dead, for readers who like their horror laced with dark humor and absurd predicaments.
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