Killer

Dave Zeltserman lives in the Boston area with his wife Judy; is a die-hard Patriots and Red Sox fan; and when he's not writing crime fiction, he spends his time working on his black belt in Kung Fu. Small Crimes (9781852429713) and Pariah (9781846686436) are also published by Serpent's Tail.

Spare prose and assured pacing place this above most other contemporary noirs Publishers Weekly, US With graphic imagery and exciting twists, this novel is impossible to put down and has a surprising ending. A brilliant read Aberdeen Press & Journal This novel is everything hard-boiled fiction should be - compact, direct and disciplined, and concerned with humans rather than stereotypes. It is also, for all its violent subject matter, a quietly told story, which makes its tension all the more intense -- Mat Coward Morning Star His style is one of the best among crime writers going today. So far, the two other books of this trilogy have made many best-of lists, and (guess what?) this will be his hat trick. I can't think of another writer I'm more excited to see another book come from than Zeltserman Bookgasm, USA Dave Zeltserman is at it again writing about ex-con antiheroes with the kind of panache that would make Jim Thompson, king of the psycho killer novels, proud. -- Ed Siegel Boston Globe