Jim Fusilli is the author of the award-winning Terry Orr series, which includes Hard, Hard City, named Best Novel of 2004 by Mystery Ink magazine. He's also the author of Closing Time, A Well-Known Secret and Tribeca Blues, which feature New York City-based private investigator Terry Orr and his daughter Bella. In 2005, his book on Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys' album, Pet Sounds, was published by Continuum.

Jim's short fiction is included in seven anthologies alongside work by his influences Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Walter Mosley and Lawrence Block, and contemporaries he admires including Peter Blauner, Ken Bruen, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, George Pelecanos and S.J. Rozan, among others. Also in 2006, Jim served as Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Binghamton.

He also writes for The Wall Street Journal, for which he has served as a rock and pop critic since 1983, and is an occasional contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered. His book reviews have appeared in The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe.

Jim's crime series has enjoyed glowing reviews from readers and critics. "A wonderful new voice," reported The Providence Journal. "Superior," said The Boston Globe, which called Jim a "courageous and original writer who works against the grain of expectations." "Fusilli is simply incredible," said Bookreporter.com. "(He) is that rare writer who both created and fulfilled the promise of greatness of his first novel ... the ongoing creation of a new legend."

Jim has been praised for his vivid prose, particularly his depiction of his beloved New York City. Said The New York Times, "Jim Fusilli's noir novels are like cobblestones—smooth and hard and deeply embedded in the streets of New York." According to Kirkus Reviews, Jim's "noir prose is peerless, as is his darkly romantic portrait of the Big Apple."

He lives in New York City with his wife Diane, a public relations executive; their daughter Cara attends college in New York City.