Less than two weeks after Permanent Press title DEAD ANYWAY won the 2013 Nero Award, another of their books, OREGON HILL by Howard Owen, has won the prestigious Hammett Prize for 2013.

As Kirkus Reviews said of OREGON HILL: 

This is Southern literature as expected, with a touch of noir, and with a touch of Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River.

Congratulations to author Howard Owen – and especially to Permanent Press publishers Martin and Judith Shepard for having a great eye for good mysteries!