Eddie McNamara
Author of crime novels, investigative nonfiction, and stories that challenge what we think we know about American pop culture and subculture.
Author of crime novels, investigative nonfiction, and stories that challenge what we think we know about American pop culture and subculture.
The Real Story of a Fake Serial Killer. What if the shocking truth is this: the Zodiac Killer never existed? Through painstaking research of original police files and thousands of pages of court records, McNamara delivers a groundbreaking revelation—the Zodiac wasn't a single predator but an urban legend amplified by media and public imagination.
Eight crime stories set around the aftermath of 9/11 by a man who was there. McNamara savagely vivisects the American dream in the days following one of the country's darkest tragedies. "It was September 12th for us every day." Raw, visceral stories with the intelligence and deep-seated anger to put McNamara in the same league as Gabino Iglesias and James Ellroy.
A gritty crime fiction novel set in the 1994 New York City hardcore punk scene. It follows a former boxer and street crew member trying to navigate life after prison in a city changed by gentrification. "Brooklyn Hardcore viscerally revives a Brooklyn I'd feared was forgotten; one filled with shitkickers and zines and mixtapes. A place where the dirtbags are sometimes your heroes and the degenerates have got your back," says Xochitil Gonzalez, author of NYT Bestseller Olga Dies Dreaming.
Eddie McNamara was born and raised in Brooklyn (before it was cool). After serving as a police officer, he worked Ground Zero recovery in the aftermath of 9/11.
His latest book, Zodiactually, represents years of meticulous research into original police files, newspaper archives, and court records—revealing the shocking truth behind the Zodiac Killer legend.
His work has appeared in anthologies of crime fiction and horror, and he's written about everything from the Sopranos to vegetarian cooking to living with PTSD.
"Eddie McNamara applies some well-needed skepticism in one of America's most famous unsolved mysteries."
—Ned Dehan, Black Box Online Radio"Eddie McNamara clears up a whole lot of bullshit, and tells us how we got to this synthetic, mercenary society we find ourselves mired in today."
—Theodore Van Alst, Jr., author of Never Whistle at Night and The El.