David Cosgrove

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📖 “A delightfully funny, playful, and bloody LA noir novel.” — Kirkus Reviews No Clean Hands

🎧 Listen to the podcast https://overthinkingtheawesome.com

Biography

David Cosgrove writes crime fiction the way he makes music—atmospheric, propulsive, and slightly dangerous. He is the author of the Marv Slocum series, darkly comic thrillers following a rumpled, perpetually sweaty fixer through the wreckage of his own cases. Kirkus Reviews called the latest, No Clean Hands, “delightfully funny, playful, and bloody.”

Music

Del Piombo is the musical alter ego of composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and sonic storyteller David Cosgrove. With more than three decades of experience across composition, engineering, performance, and production, Del Piombo bridges orchestral form, progressive rock, ambient texture, and cinematic soundscapes. The work is defined by atmosphere, narrative, and emotional movement—music built as if scoring films that haven’t been made yet.

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Books

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Articles

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There’s a polite assumption in crime fiction that humor is garnish. The body is the meal. The detective’s one-liner is the parsley: a little color on the plate, a break in the grimness, comic relief, as if the laughter exists to let pressure out of the book. I’d like to formally object.

The Joke Is the Knife: Why Funny Is the Hardest Way to Kill Someone

Picture a strip mall in Van Nuys at eleven in the morning. A vape shop, a donut shop, a notary, a teriyaki place with a health grade that took some negotiating, and a nail salon whose signage promises, ambitiously, SERENITY. The light is doing that flat white thing the Valley does, where every surface looks like it’s been photographed for…

Sunshine Is Scarier Than Fog: In Praise of the Unglamorous Crime Scene

Author Interviews

You have a very successful career in business — you’ve run a digital marketing consultancy for thirty years. A lot of people might be content with that, but you have your music and your writing. Have you always wanted to be a novelist as well?

In some form, yes. The itch was always there. I’ve spent thirty years in digital marketing, building campaigns and telling other people’s stories for…