Featured Interview With Gregory Stout
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Greg Stout is the author of Gideon’s Ghost, and Connor’s War, both young adult
novels set in small-town America in the mid-1960s, and Lost Little Girl, a detective novel set in
Nashville, Tennessee, which received the 2022 Shamus Award for best first novel. His second
detective novel, The Gone Man, was released in December, 2022 and his third, Woman in the
Wind, was released in November 2023. A complete listing of Greg Stout’s published works can
be found at www.gregorystoutauthor.com. A native of St. Louis, Greg resides with his wife, Carol, and two cats, Wallace and Gromit, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where he is a member of the Heartland Writers Guild, the Southeast Missouri Writers Guild and is a member of the board of directors for the Missouri Writers Guild.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My father was a “reader,” who encouraged me to be the same. Rather than throw balls around in the yard, we played Scrabble and did crosswords together. He was also active in amateur theater, and I improved my reading (and theatrical) skills by helping him learn his lines for the plays in which he appeared. My first (or 28 to date) traditionally published title was a railroad history, which was released in 1995.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
These days, I write detective fiction for Level Best Books. I have four titles to date and a fifth will be released in the fall. These days, I try to keep my head in the game by reading other mystery authors, especially Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, James Ellroy and Walter Mosley. I also write reviews of other mystery novels for Strand magazine and am an occasional co-host of a St. Louis-based radio show called Authors Edge.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Long time Gone, the fourth installment in the Nashville, Tennessee-based Jackson Gamble PI series, was released in November, 2024. Gamble is hired to find a college professor who disappeared four years earlier. At the same time, he is trying to track down a bail-skip who has an impending court date. Of course, like all good PI mysteries, both cases quickly collapse into a trip through the dark underbelly of Nashville’s underbelly of prostitution, illicit drugs and organized crime.
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