Dave Zeltserman's Blog, page 2
August 9, 2025
First 9 chapters now available
The first 9 chapters of my thriller The Coleridge Project are now up on davezeltserman.substack.com.
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May 14, 2025
Introduction to my Morris Brick crime thrillers
When Michaela Hamilton approached me about writing aserial killer series for Kensington Books, I used John Lutz’s brilliant FrankQuinn series as inspiration for what would become my Morris Brick series. Whatparticularly drew me to the Frank Quinn books was the clever plotting, how Lutzused chapters to flash back to the killer’s earlier life to explore thekiller’s evolution, the way the team of investigators working with Frank werean extended family complete with sniping, jibes, and true caring, and how Lutzmade the victims flesh and blood instead of cardboard cutouts so we’d careabout them and dread what would be happening.
I named my detective Morris after a favorite uncle,and I gave him the name Brick, because like my uncle, my detective would have ashort, compact body, in short, “built like a brick.” The Frank Quinn seriestakes place in NYC whereas my Morris Brick series takes place in Los Angeles,and not just so Morris and Frank Quinn wouldn’t compete to catch the same perpetrators!Hollywood and the drive for fame (or infamy) are an integral part of thisseries. At heart, I’m a crime fiction writer, and these books, particularly ThePeople We Kill, The Lives We Take, and The Pain We Bring arefilled with criminal activity and its consequences.
Now that I have the rights back for this series, I’mpublishing the books under my own name instead of the Jacob Stone pseudonym,with the titles I had originally wanted, and with cover art that I feel bettercaptures the dark nature of these books. While I’m not promising now that therewill be more Morris Brick full-length novels in the future, several MorrisBrick short stories have been published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine,and I do expect to write more of these.
All five books will be released June 10th as Kindle books and are available now for preorder.
