Reviews

Praise for Things in Ditches:

"His name may be Jimmy Olsen, but he writes like Superman. My definition of a great book is simple. It's a book that I can't put down. A book I carry from room to room, and from home to car to work, just waiting for another chance to sneak in a few more pages. A book so engaging that all you want to do is read it. Olsen's novel Things in Ditches: A Murder Mystery Novel is terrific." -- John Molene, Saint Cloud Daily Times

"... a crackerjack thriller...true as a rifle shot...you can feel the frostbite on every trigger finger and the hot blood melting the blinding white snow. A stellar first novel." -- Gersh Kuntzman, New York Post

"Olsen's story of bloody compulsion and shame is so sickeningly real, I have to look twice to see that his characters aren't on my locked ward." -- Dr. Scott A. TenNapel, Noted Minnesota Psychologist

"A tautly drawn thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat." -- Dave Wood

"...a fast-paced, terrific first novel." -- Bruce Southworth, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"What you get with this work is dead people who are not dead, dead people who are missing, missing people who are not dead ...within this framework Olsen introduces us to a fabulous cast of characters that he interjects into a tight, neat mystery..." -- Murder by the Book, Cranston, RI

"...twists and turns enough to satisfy the most rabid mystery reader." -- Carl Brookins, St. Paul Pioneer Press