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Kurt Johnson
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The Moon Tavern takes the reader on a romantic and culinary journey through the Islands of Croatia, where dark family secrets are revealed, quirky friends and relatives are found, and love is discovered.
2023 Minnesota Book Award Winner
2023 Goldie Winner Debut Novel
2023 Goldie WinnerGeneral Fiction
An RV romp through the Southwest during the COVID summer of 2020.
"So Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen walk into a Vegas dive bar, circa 1986. Johnson shakes the grit, the grime, the losers, the drifters and the barely surviving into a funky, seriocomic cocktail. Thoroughly entertaining"
—Brian Lambert
Rough Diamonds follows stolen uncut diamonds from Chicago to Las Vegas as they pass through the hands of outlandish characters
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Kurt Johnson
Kurt Johnson is the author of numerous fiction novels. His novel The Barrens, written with his daughter, Ellie, won the Minnesota Book Award for Best Novel and the Golden Crown Literary Society’s Best Debut and Best Fiction Novel. His Sin City Thriller books, Las Vegas Turnaround and Rough Diamonds, are based on his time running nightclubs in Las Vegas, and are characterized by a straight-shooting style that unflinchingly plunges into the seedy side of Vegas. His novel The Moon Tavern, written with his wife, Stephanie Hansen, is a culinary love story spiked with original recipes. He divides his time between Minneapolis and Ely, Minnesota.
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