Sean McGrady

Advance Praise from veteran book editor and critic Michele Slung for SLEEPING WITH JACK KEROUAC: "'Crime and Astonishment" might be the best way to describe this clever mash-up set amid the (literally) murderous world of literary commerce. It's fierce and fearless fun, New York noir with new twists, a purpose-built wild ride marking the return of the much-missed Sean McGrady. All that--and Jack Kerouac, too!"

McGrady, a long-time resident of Northport—a small town on the north shore of Long Island that Jack Kerouac also called home—now splits his time between Olympia, Washington and the California Bay Area.

Mr. McGrady had four novels published with Pocket Books in the 1990s— three of those novels were recently reissued in new trade paperback editions by Simon & Schuster. The critically acclaimed Eamon Wearie series includes DEAD LETTERS, SEALED WITH A KISS, and TOWN WITHOUT A ZIP.

THEY DIED IN VAIN, a book detailing the best and most overlooked mystery novels of the last century and edited by Jim Huang, describes the Eamon Wearie series as "emblematic of life in America at the end of the twentieth century."

Critic Kate Derie says the characters are "well drawn and vivid" and that the dialogue and settings "ring true" and further describes federal agent Wearie as retaining "something of the best idealism of the best private eyes, a man who is not himself mean although he walks the mean passageways of Postal Depot 349."

Publishers Weekly simply declared, "McGrady's prose scores.”

SLEEPING WITH JACK KEROUAC, coming to Amazon on June 27, 2017, is Sean McGrady’s first new novel in over twenty years.