Charles Salzberg had careers in magazine journalism, non-fiction, ghostwriting, and teaching before turning his attention to crime fiction with the Shamus Award-nominated Swann’s Last Song—the first of five in the series. His other works include the standalone novels Devil in the Hole and Second Story Man, which won the Beverly Hills Book Award; he has…
“Cut Loose All Those Who Drag You Down” by Ross Klavan A crooked reporter who fronts for the mob and who’s been married eight times gets a visit from his oldest friend, a disgraced and defrocked shrink. The man is in deep trouble and it’s clear somebody is going to pay with his life. “Beaned”…
Swann’s Down by Charles Salzberg is the fifth book in the Henry Swann Mystery series. Charles Salzberg is living proof that those who teach also do. A Big Apple native, he teaches at the Writer’s Voice and the New York Writers Workshop, which he co-founded. His novels include the Henry Swann series (the Shamus Award-nominated…
Enjoy this exclusive first look at the cover of Swann’s Down by Charles Salzberg, available from Down & Out Books on May 20, 2019! When Henry Swann is asked by his quirky partner, Goldblatt, to find a missing psychic who’s swindled his ex-wife out of a small fortune, he just can’t say no. Although he doesn’t…
“I Take Care of Myself in Dreamland” by Ross Klavan Bartok is horribly scarred. Wounded in the Army, he roams through 1970’s New York, a city of perpetual night, punctuated by crime and populated by streetwalkers, hooker bars, strip clubs, easy drugs and a feeling of doom. There’s one thing on his mind: an experience…
Charles Salzberg is a former magazine journalist who recently turned to a life of crime—fictitiously, of course. His acclaimed Swann series boasts four titles (with a fifth on the way); these include Swann’s Last Song, which was nominated for a Shamus Award, and Swann’s Lake of Despair, which was nominated for two Silver Falchions and…
Second Story Man by Charles Salzberg is a thrilling novel that develops into a cat-and-mouse contest between the two lawmen and a master burglar (available March 26, 2018). I love a good no-good thief. Now, I am also inordinately fond of Bernie Rhodenbarr, Lawrence Block’s Burglar who will rob you blind but may also solve…
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Long Island Noir is an anthology of short crime fiction, all set in Nassau and Suffolk counties of New York, edited by Kaylie Jones (available April 30, 2012). The counties of Nassau and Suffolk (collectively known as Long Island) have patiently waited their turn in the Akashic Books Noir series since their neighbor to the…
