Eddie Miles Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Nobody’s Angel | 2010 | Buy |
| Back Door to L.A. | 2016 | Buy |
Nick Acropolis Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Westerfield’s Chain | 2002 | Buy |
| Highway Side | 2011 | Buy |
| Dancing on Graves | 2011 | Buy |
Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Hack Writing & Other Stories | 2012 | Buy |
Jack Clark is a Chicago journalist, taxi driver, and crime fiction author. He has written for the Chicago Reader since 1975 and won the Chicago Newspaper Guild’s Page One Award for feature writing. His decades of driving a taxi in Chicago gave him material for the Eddie Miles series, whose narrator works the same streets Clark knows from behind the wheel.
His fiction is rooted in Chicago. The Nick Acropolis series follows a former Chicago homicide detective turned private investigator, and Westerfield’s Chain, the first book, was a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel. The Eddie Miles books take a different approach: Miles is a cabbie, not a detective, and the novels put crime fiction inside the world of Chicago’s taxi trade, mixing serial killer plots with the texture of daily driving life.
Clark originally self-published Nobody’s Angel — the first Eddie Miles book — selling copies from his cab for five dollars each before the novel was picked up by Hard Case Crime. That detail captures something of his approach: fiction written from experience and sold directly to the people who share that experience.