Julius Katz

My award winning novella, Julius Katz, is now available as an Amazon Kindle download for $0.99. Originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, this charming and humor-filled mystery received a Readers Choice award from Ellery Queen's readers and a 2010 Derringer for Best Novelette from the Short Mystery Fiction Society. More Julius Katz stories and novels are planned, including 'Archie's Been Framed!' which will be published later this year in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, so here's your chance to read about the brilliant and eccentric detective, Julius Katz, and his most unusual assistant, Archie, from the beginning!

21 Tales of dark suspense.

Stories of desperation, treachery, deceit and betrayal, populated by con men, mobsters, psychopaths, dangerous women and life’s losers. Each of these stories with surprise endings and enough twists to leave you dizzy.

Brutal life lessons learned over a game of nine-ball… a war veteran who’s been played as a sucker one too many times by his older brother… a salesman who stumbles upon the girl of his dreams only to learn that his dreams have all been nightmares… a con man who gets more than he bargains for when he convinces a wealthy woman to marry him.

21 Tales will be available as a paperback later this year from New Pulp Press (Oct. 15th), but you can buy now as an ebook for $2.99 from the Amazon Kindle store or $1.49 from Smashwords (which supplies ebooks for every eReader).

Other upcoming stories of mine that will be available in print this year:

Archie's Been Framed!, Some People Deserve to Die and The Mentor are all scheduled to be appear this year in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Julius Katz will be reprinted in By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year, edited by Ed Gorman and Martin Greenberg

Bad Move in Thuglit Presents Blood, Guts, and Whiskey

Emma Sue in On Dangerous Ground

Til Death Do You Part reprinted in the first issue of Needle Magazine

Mind Prison in Crimefactory Anthology