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About Scott Phillips

Scott Phillips (born 1961) is an American writer primarily of crime fiction in the noir tradition. He was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. After co-writing and directing the independent short film Walking Blues, he lived for several years in France, working as a translator and photographer.

He returned to the United States and lived for a period in California, working as a screenwriter. He co-wrote a 1996 thriller called Crosscut, among many other projects, both credited and uncredited. He has sometimes been confused with another author of the same professional name.

His first novel, The Ice Harvest, was published in 2000. It won the California Book Award, as well as being nominated for the Edgar Award and Hammett Prize, and shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. A black comic noir thriller set in the low-rent world of sleazy Wichita bars and strip clubs on Christmas Eve 1979, The Ice Harvest was adapted as a film of the same title, released in 2005.

Scott Phillips writes about Fiction, Wichita (Kan.), Investments, Kansas, fiction, Kansas, and Fiction, thrillers, general. Their best-known work is The ice harvest.

On FindMyTBR we track 8 books by Scott Phillips, 6 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Rake: A Novel (Unabridged), St. Louis Noir, and That Left Turn at Albuquerque. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.