David R. Thompson
Official Site of Best selling
Author
"The newest Matt Thornton PI crime mystery!"
Available December 2021!
Book
"A Hard-Boiled Detective Crime Mystery"
"A Hard-Boiled Detective Crime Mystery"
Bio
David R. Thompson is a former international business executive, managing manufacturing operations at companies in the United States and Canada. He is a graduate of Arizona State University and was on the board of directors of the Algonquin College Industrial Technology program in Ottawa, Canada.
He’s been an active outdoor sportsman, hunting and fishing in Canada, Alpine skiing Switzerland, Mohave Desert motorcycle racing in the Adelanto Grand Prix, and participating in California skeet shooting and archery tournaments as well as ocean sailing on his 40-foot black ketch, the Belle Darquise, aka the Black Swan.
He’s written numerous short stories, and several historical/adventure stories regarding world explorer Thor Heyerdahl (Kon-Tiki & RA expeditions) &western writer and big game fisherman Zane Grey.
His new series of noir era Matt Thornton private detective/crime/mystery novels begins with Pandora’s Box, and continues with The Blonde with the Ice-Blue Eyes. The novels take place in the Los Angeles area during Hollywood’s post-war golden era.
David resides in Huntington Beach, California, with his wife Darquise. He is a member of the Private Eye Writers of America.
Member : Private Eye Writers of America
In the Press
"This novel is a gem. If you have a yearning for a private eye in the truly classic tradition of the thirties and forties, superbly crafted, snappily worded, with characters who come alive on the page, and a plot to match, you've found it. Throw in allusions to George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, and that set, and you might as well plan a late dinner."
John F. Dobbyn
Author: Neon Dragon, Deadly Diamonds, Frame Up, Black Diamonds, Fatal Odds
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"Post-war L.A. shows some leg in this tough-guy tale. More grit and lust than the seedy side of Venice Beach. Your narrative moves at a great clip in this exciting, action-packed novel."
Ben East,
Thriller Author:
Patchwork, Two Pumps for the Body Man
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Matthew Thornton, operates like a juggler with a dozen balls in the air, as he handles the troublesome goings-on thrust before him--thugs, mob takeovers, blackmail schemes, and kidnappings--with a dexterity and fearlessness that is marvelous. I loved following this P.I. as he dispenses his own brand of justice in the 1940's L.A. smog and fog and rooted for him in this triumph of a novel.
Vicki Salloum,
Author:
Candyland
"The Blonde with the Ice-Blue-Eyes" is an engaging, tightly written mystery that could've come off the typewriter of Raymond Chandler. A follow-up to his highly successful, Matt Thornton P.I. novel, "Pandora's Box", author David R. Thompson takes readers once again to the underbelly of 1940's LA, where intimidation and death is a way of life. This time around, Thornton has to unravel a case that involves organized crime, whose greedy little fingers were encompassing everything from film factories to corrupt cops and slimy politicians. Thompson weaves an intriguing story that draws together such diverse threads as blackmail, drugs, arson, and murder. This mystery has everything one would expect from a hard-hitting detective novel: arresting characters, biting prose, a world-weary protagonist, and the lady of the title, an intriguing blonde with ice-blue eyes. It's a real page-turner and a welcomed return to those wonderful hard-boiled detective novels published during crime fiction's golden age. I highly recommend it.
Tony Piazza, Hollywood Actor & Author of Tom Logan mysteries:
Murder Will Out,
Anything Short of Murder, & Bullitt Points
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"The Blonde with the Ice-Blue-Eyes" is a hard-boiled walk back in time to vintage Hollywood.
Matt Coyle,
Author:
Wrong Light, Blood Truth, Night Terrors, Yesterday's Echo
Readers who can't get enough of that heralded era in PI fiction when the heroes were tough, the dames were hot and the villains diabolical will commend David R. Thompson's crackling novel, The Blonde with the Ice-Blue-Eyes. It's good old-fashioned fun. You can almost smell the action and taste the whiskey wafting off the pages.
David Corbett,
Award winning Author:
The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday, Blood of Paradise, Done for a Dime, The Devil's Redhead, Do They know I'm Running, The Mercy of the Night, The Devil Prayed & Darkness Fell
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"Channeling Raymond Chandler, David Thompson gets Los Angeles, its people, and the tough-guy lingo of the 1940's pitch perfect--all while taking readers on a wild ride as private eye Matt Thornton sets out to stop the wise guys who are trying to take over L.A. and rescue a classy dame, who isn't above committing a little crime herself."
Caroline Taylor,
Author:
Loose Ends, The Typist, Death in Delmarva
News & Events
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