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Dave Zeltserman
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Dashiell Hammett, Jim Thompson, Bruce Jay Friedman, Joseph Heller
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September 2007
With Monster two months away from publication, I thought I'd repeat a blog post from a year ago about how I came about writing this book:
One day when I was walking around the long since defunct Brookline Barnes & Noble, I was noticing all the vampire, dragon, zombie, Wizard of Oz & werewolf books, and was thinking what hasn't been done, and what I came up with was Frankenstein. Yeah, I... read more »
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Small Crimes
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The Caretaker of Lorne Field: A Novel
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2010
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Outsourced
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Pariah
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2009
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Top Suspense: 13 Classic Stories By 12 Masters Of The Genre
by Dave Zeltserman (Goodreads Author), Lee Goldberg (Goodreads Author), Harry Shannon (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Killer
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Julius Katz Mysteries
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Blood Crimes: Book One
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Bad Thoughts (Bill Shannon, #1)
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Killer's Essence, A: A Novel
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Badass Gets Out of Jail
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by Dave Zeltserman (Goodreads Author)
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by Dave Zeltserman (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 209 ratings
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| This and Red Harvest are simply the two greatest novels in crime fiction. The writing, stories, character development, dialog in these books are pitch perfect. | |
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| I'm in this anthology, but I can still give this 5-stars with a clear conscience based solely on Paul Tremblay's story in the anthology. It's that good a story! There's some good stuff in the rest of the anthology, but it's Tremblay's story that make...more | |
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| The greatest crime novel period. There's a very good reason why Time Magazine named Red Harvest one of the 50 greatest novels of the 20th century. if you haven't read this, you need to! | |
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| Paul Tremblay's review of this book is so spot on that there's nothing I could add, so I'll leave my review as simply that this is a great book, one that has more honesty and truth to it than any 10 big fat commercial bestsellers combined. | |
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| I'm rating this not for my story, but the other 11 from Top Suspense authors, which are all top notch. I have a strong bias towards Harry Shannon's story since I published it during my earlier life when I ran Hardluck Stories, and I always had a stro...more | |
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"I've been feeling like a sloth the last week or so--finding excuses to do everything but work on my latest book. Interesting, I have my black belt in...more
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"Simon, 4 stars for your own book? Man, you're a tough grader!
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Larry,Sorry to hear about your sister-in-law, and hope she's doing better.
Thanks for writing me about the book, and I'm glad you liked it. My next one, Pariah, will be out in the UK in Jan. and I think in the US in June, and that's the one I'm most excited about.
--Dave
Dave,Finished it up last night, and would have written then, but I've spent the last 24 hours waiting in the hospital with a critically-ill sister-in-law.
Anyway, SMALL CRIMES is a fantastic book. I think the final scene, as Joe pulls the trigger that sends him on his dark flight to hell will stick with me a long time. There is a great deal to chew on, besides the great writing.
How soon can we expect another?
Larry in Mississippi
Larry, thanks, the book so far has been generating a lot of good stuff, all very exciting. Hey, let me know what you think when you're done.Best,
Dave
