Gregory Galloway is the author of the novels
The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand and the Alex Award-winning
As Simple As Snow. His short stories have
appeared in the
Rush Hour and
Taking Aim anthologies. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Galloway's new novel is
Just Thieves.
At CrimeReads Galloway tagged
eight "favorite noirs of characters in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong idea, thinking everything will be alright," including:
Ride the Pink Horse, by Dorothy B. Hughes
It’s hard to pick a Dorothy B. Hughes novel that doesn’t have a character who gets into more and more trouble with every page. 
She likes to sink her characters way in over their heads and see how they’ll make out. Whether it’s Sailor, who’s out to blackmail his old boss, a US Senator, and outwit the cop who may or may not be after him (Ride the Pink Horse, 1946); or Dix Steele, who thinks he can outsmart everyone, including his best friend Brub, a detective looking for a serial killer (In a Lonely Place, 1947); or doctor Hugh Denismore, who has to try and clear himself of the murder of a hitchhiker he’d picked up earlier (The Expendable Man, 1963), as external forces tighten around him.
Read about
another entry on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
appeared in the Rush Hour and Taking Aim anthologies. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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