Some big news from Publishers Marketplace about what’s going to happen after GANGSTERLAND III comes out in 2023:

Bestselling author of GANGSTERLAND and Hammett Prize Finalist Tod Goldberg’s SALTON SEA, a sunburnt noir set in the 1960s along the shores of California’s beautiful and doomed inland sea, about a small-town lawman with a violent past who stumbles on a dead body, touching off a conflagration that will rage through the region’s indigenous tribes, to the Rat Pack celebrities of Palm Springs, to the organized crime families of Chicago, drawing on characters from his recent collection THE LOW DESERT, to Dan Smetanka at Counterpoint by Jennie Dunham at Dunham Literary. WE + Audio. Translation rights: Taryn Fagerness of Taryn Fagerness Agency. Film Rights: Judi Farkas, Judi Farkas Management 

I am thrilled to be staying with Counterpoint for my next book. They’ve been my home since 2014 and I couldn’t be happier with the amazing team there. Lots of cool stuff is still cooking with various Gangsterland and The Low Desert-related projects and this novel — which will feature Sheriff Morris Drew from “The Low Desert,” “The Last Good Man,” and “The Salt” — will surely include some other people you’ve met before, because this place, this world, is nothing if not filled with crooked lines, that all seem to lead back to a family in Chicago prone to violence and deception…