12/16/2025
Finally the awaited release of Our Friend and Author Jim Nesbitt 's new Ed Earl Burch detective Novel "THE FATAL SAVING GRACE" has arrived Just in time for Christmas.
"Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year so please leave a copy for me under the Christmas Tree."
If you like hard hitting suspense, Good cops, Bad Cops, fast cars, tough guys and gals and gun fights with despardos where lives hang in the balance then I'll bet this book is for you.
Get your copy ASAP while it is smoking hot of the press like a just fired C**t 1911.
"Honest" Jim Nesbit is a good friend of our page and one good Hombre.
Merry Christmas Amigos !!!
Your's truly
Stan Hitchins
Today ain’t another dreary Monday. It’s Launch Day for The Fatal Saving Grace: An Ed Earl Burch Novel, my fifth hard-boiled Texas crime thriller featuring this battered but unsinkable shamus and resurrected lawman.
It’s a damn fine tale and I’m damn proud of it.
But don’t take my word for it. Here’s what other authors have to say:
“Nesbitt delivers a scorched-earth tale set under the vast dome of West Texas sky, where every shadow conceals an ambush and every road bleeds history. He paints Texas in colors of rust, smoke and whiskey, and the result is a story that feels carved in stone. This is cowboy noir at its finest.”
—Baron Birtcher, Will Rogers Medallion winning author of Knife River
“Ed Earl Burch, who’s partial to Lucky Strikes and Maker’s Mark, makes Mike Hammer look like Miss Marple. Jim’s novels offer wicked humor, an eye for detail, brass-knuck action and language that would strip the paint off a Hummer.”
—Noel Holston, author of Life After Deaf and As I Die Laughing
“Jim Nesbitt knows his Texas crime and writes one fine line at a time. Hard-boiled with prickly pears, old leather boots, a bit of to***co, freshly spit of course, he gets it right.”
—Joe R. Lansdale, champion mojo storyteller and author of the Hap ‘N Leonard crime thrillers
“A gritty and deadly must-read, THE FATAL SAVING GRACE cements Nesbitt’s standing among the best writers in the pantheon of Southern noir.”
—Bruce Robert Coffin, bestselling author of the Detective Justice Mysteries
“Ed Earl Burch is back, and that’s great news for readers who love classic hard-boiled noir, colorful characters, crackling dialogue and plenty of action. Highly recommended!”
—R.G. Belsky, author of the Gil Malloy and Clare Carlson mysteries
“This is powerful stuff. The action is hard and quick. And often final. There is smoke and guns and whisky and women. And a world full of payback. Ed Earl Burch will not go quietly into that good night. This old lawman stays loud and proud.”
—Michael Ludden, author of Alfredo’s Luck, Tate Drawdy and The Street King
“Jim Nesbitt’s new novel, The Fatal Saving Grace, continues the gritty, hard charging Ed Earl Burch series--as hard-bitten and hard-boiled as its West Texas landscape, serving up a tale of revenge, unfinished business and murder. Grace, like most everything in West Texas, will be hard to find and bitterly won.”
—James McCrone, author of The Faithless Elector, The Bastard Verdict and Witness Tree
Pick up a copy and see for yourself:
Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Saving-Grace-Hard-Boiled-Thriller/dp/0998329479
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Saving-Grace-Hard-Boiled-Thriller-ebook/dp/B0FZXKHF83
