to Vachss, removing it had the effect of a strobe light flashing in his face. Vachss also had a small blue heart tattooed on his right hand. Vachss' wife, Alice, was a sex crimes prosecutor, and she later became Chief of the Special Victims Bureau in Queens, New York. She is the author of the nonfiction book Sex Crimes: Ten Years on the Front Lines Prosecuting Rapists and Confronting Their Collaborators, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has continued her work as Special Prosecutor for Sex Crimes in rural Oregon. He died of coronary artery disease on November 23, 2021, at the age of 79 at his residence in Pacific Northwest. Honors and awards Professional honors and awards A/V Peer Review (highest rating) by Martindale-Hubbell 2004, LL.D. (Hon.) Case Western Reserve University 2003, First Annual Harvey R. Houck Award (Justice for Children) 2003, First Annual Illuminations Award (St. Vincent's Center National Child Abuse Prevention Program) 1994, Childhelp Congressional Award 1976, John Hay Whitney Foundation Fellow 1970, Industrial Areas Foundation Training Institute Fellow Literary honors and awards 2000, Raymond Chandler Award, Giurìa a Noir in Festival, Courmayeur, Italy, for body of writing 1989, Deutscher Krimi Preis, Die Jury des Bochumer Krimi Archivs, Germany, for Flood (as Kata) 1989, Maltese Falcon Award, Japan, for Strega 1988, Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, France, for Strega (as La Sorciere de Brooklyn) Bibliography The Burke series Flood (1985) Strega (1987) Blue Belle (1988) Hard Candy (1989) Blossom (1990) Sacrifice (1991) Down in the Zero (1994) Footsteps of the Hawk (1995) False Allegations (1996) Safe House (1998) Choice of Evil (1999) Dead and Gone (2000) Pain Management (2001) Only Child (2002) Down Here (2004) Mask Market (2006) Terminal (2007) Another Life (2008) The Cross series Blackjack: A Cross Novel (2012) Urban Renewal: A Cross Novel (2014) Drawing Dead: A Cross Novel (2016) The Aftershock trilogy Aftershock (2013) Shockwave (2014) Signwave (2015) Other novels Shella (1993) Batman: The Ultimate Evil (1995) The Getaway Man (2003) Two Trains Running (2005) Haiku (2009) The Weight (2010) A Bomb Built in Hell (2012) That's How I Roll (2012) Carbon (2019) Blood Line (2022) Novelettes The Questioner (2018) Short story collections Born Bad (1994) Everybody Pays (1999) Proving It (2001) audiobook collection. Dog Stories – online collection. Mortal Lock (2013) Comic books and graphic novels Hard Looks (1992–93) – ten-issue series. Andrew Vachss' Underground (1993-1994) – four-issue