About David Lozell Martin

The versatile David Lozell Martin is known for such creepy suspense tales as Tap Tap and Bring Me Children, as well as for mainstream literary fiction such as The Crying Heart Tattoo, and The Beginning of Sorrow. Martin lived in the French Quarter while writing Pelikan and now lives in upstate New York.

Critical Acclaim for David Lozell Martin

"...Lozell renders the grit and stink of the back-street dives with nose-pinching accuracy, and his dialogue goes down quicker than a tequila slammer..." - David Hopkins, The London Times

"...Martin's New Orleans makes me real glad I'm from Toledo, Ohio..." - P. J. O'Rourke,

"...Pelikan infuses the caper thriller with strains of pure-D American gothic, New Orleans-style, French Quarter-style, in a pitch of high comic singularity. It's an amazing and unputdownable novel..." - Stephen Hunter,

"...a lovely, strange story ..." - The Morning Star