S.A. Cosby

S. A. Cosby (born 1973 in Mathews County, Virginia) is an American crime novelist. His noir novels are set in the rural South and centre on working-class Black characters caught between family, race and violence. He came to wide notice with Blacktop Wasteland (2020), followed by Razorblade Tears (2021), All the Sinners Bleed (2023) and King of Ashes (2025). His books have been published in French by Sonatine, in German by ars vivendi and in Spanish by Salamandra, translated into some twenty languages, and have won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for mystery/thriller and been picked by Barack Obama on his summer reading lists.