Lou Berney, a favorite of the Book Pages , is the author of excellent stand-alone novels, including “November Road” and “Dark Ride,” as well as his series about getaway driver Shake Bouchon, such as 2024’s “Double Barrel Bluff.” The author, who teaches in the undergraduate English and MFA programs at Oklahoma City University, spent more than a decade out West. “California, to me, always felt like home,” he told us in 2023. “Especially the parts of California that don’t often make it to the big screen. I just love the parts of California that remind me a lot of Oklahoma … the fields and the strip malls and just the life of a place that in some ways represents everything, good and bad, about America.” Along with working on the FX series “The Lowdown,” he’s just published a new novel, “

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