Fred R. Willard
- Writer
A former newspaper photographer Fred Willard is known as the master of "Cracker Noir," his books boil with smarmy characters and their bizarre antics. Down on Ponce is hard-boiled crime fiction, solidly in the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Jim Thompson. Hip in style and naughty in tone, the second eccentric crime novel from Atlanta author Fred Willard is populated with just as many zany characters as his successful debut, Down on Ponce.