Novelist / Podcaster / Journalist
About me & my work
I’m the author of the acclaimed novels The Blaze and Champion of the World, co-producer of the award-winning history and true crime podcast Death in the West and co-host of The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast. Watch this video to learn a little bit more about my work:
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Champion of the World
My debut novel, Champion of the World, straddles the line between crime and historical fiction. Set against the background of the rough-and-tumble world of professional wrestling in the 1920s — back when the fights were real and the competitors as tough as they come — it follows a husband and wife team of carnival hustlers as they take one last high-stakes shot at the big time. Their gamble thrusts them into a dangerous world of shady promoters, murderous gangsters and conniving bootleggers, where where everyone has something to hide and not even the fights can be taken at face value ...
My second book, The Blaze, is a contemporary literary thriller set in my home state of Montana. It tracks an Iraqi war veteran who has lost most of his long-term memory as a result of a traumatic brain injury suffered in combat. When word reaches Matthew Rose that his father has unexpectedly died by suicide, he travels back to the small town where he was raised, hoping to put his dad’s affairs in order and also solve the mystery of his own past.
On his first night back in town, Matthew witnesses a house fire where a local college student is killed. That blaze triggers a memory of an unsolved crime from his childhood. Haunted by the idea that the two incidents are somehow connected, Matthew teams up with his on-again-off-again childhood crush, Georgie, and begins to investigate, hoping that solving the crimes will also unlock his lost memories …
The Blaze
“Dundas suggests writers such as Doctorow and Chabon. [His] pared-down, punchy style goes well with his characters; basic raw ambitions and emotions.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Reminiscent of the best of early Cormac McCarthy, but with compelling female characters.”
Philpp Meyer, best-selling author of The Son and American Rust
“Dundas knows how to keep things simmering, and his cracking good mystery kept this reviewer up at night.”
BookPage (starred review)