“Estleman’s prose snaps like fresh linen Treasury bills.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on The Master Executioner

“What we have here is a true professional, a writer of a sort increasingly rare . . . a craftsman so given to his work as to spontaneously combust to genius.” —Boston Globe on The Master Executioner

“Stylist extraordinaire Estleman shapes sentences like prose poems to the craft at hand, his details sharp as metal shavings, in a voice all his own.” —Kirkus Reviews on Black Powder White Smoke

“Loren Estleman brings high style to his writing; the sentences are things of beauty in and of themselves.” —Tulsa World on The Master Executioner