A CrimeReads Best Noir Novels of 2021 Bookreporter's Favorite Books of 2021 "A sucker punch noir that is also a powerful and haunting allegory of work, debt, and power." –Richard Price
"An unreliable narrator makes this thriller all the more gripping."
– WBUR "Galloway is as good at characterizations as he is at tight, and surprising, plotting... (a) stellar noir." –
Publishers Weekly starred review "Spot-on throwback noir."–
Shelf Awareness "When a book begins with a dead horse, you know it's going to be good, and Just Thieves, a taut, understated, brilliant noir, is not only good but great."–
CrimeReads "Chock full of mystery, regret, intrigue, emotion: Galloway's newest is a brilliant meditation on what matters. The kind of book that leaves you feeling like you already saw, and felt, deeply, the movie. -
Josh Malerman,
New York Times best selling author of Bird Box
"Just Thieves happens in a wonderful space where digression and story-telling ride out together. There's room here for much of the world and for reminders that life itself is a digression. I enjoyed and admired this novel." -
James Sallis "Just Thieves is at once a brisk caper novel and a deep dive into the motivations that propel all of us, thieves and otherwise - - family, loyalty, and most of all love. Great fun and profoundly sad at once, which is no mean trick." –
Scott Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest
"A violent, gritty, and surprisingly tender story that gut punches you with the emotional one-two of a tragic twist and a stunning finale."–K
atie Tallo, Author of Dark August " ...a contemporary crime novel of devastating emotional precision. Moving with uncanny control between past and present, with tensely constructed scenes strung along a gleaming thread of superb dialogue, it earns an honorable place in the tradition of suspense fiction that it so elegantly evokes." –
Alec Nevala Lee, author of The Icon Thief