Frank Bill Signed Firsts: A Reference

Frank Bill writes country noir set in the rural borderlands of southern Indiana — a landscape of meth labs, bare-knuckle fighting, dog breeding, and desperate people doing desperate things. His prose is as blunt and forceful as a hammer, and his fiction operates at a level of violence that pushes even the country noir genre to its extremes. Bill works as a painter by day and writes fiction that reads like dispatches from a war zone located just off the interstate.

Key Works

• Crimes in Southern Indiana (2011) — debut story collection, the breakthrough
• Donnybrook (2013) — novel about a bare-knuckle fighting tournament
• The Savage (2016) — post-apocalyptic novel

Market Values

• Crimes in Southern Indiana, signed first: $40–$100
• Donnybrook, signed first: $30–$75
• The Savage, signed first: $20–$50

Bill’s work is not for everyone — the violence is extreme and the world depicted is unrelentingly bleak. But for collectors of country noir at its most raw and uncompromising, his books represent the genre’s outer boundary.