Dave Zeltserman

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2002
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Bill Shannon Novel

Bad Karma (Nov-2009)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • In His Shadow

    Denver private eye Johnny Lane runs a thriving agency. In fact, he’s so busy that he has to contract out his overflow cases. When Johnny's approached by a young woman to find her birth parents, he’s willing to take the case for almost nothing. It...

  • Bad Thoughts

  • Small Crimes

    Chosen by NPR and the Washington Post as one of the best crime & mystery novels of 2008, Small Crimes is now a major film starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones' Jaime Lannister)Bent copper Joe Denton gets out of prison suspiciously ear...

  • Pariah

    “What a sick puppy of a writer Dave Zeltserman is!...a doozy of a doom-laden crime story that not only makes merry with the justice system, but also satirizes those bottom feeders in the publishing industry who would sign Osama bin Laden ...

  • Bad Karma

    A Bill Shannon Novel

  • Killer

    Leonard March walks free from jail after fourteen years' hard time, served after turning state's witness against his Mafia boss Salvatore Lombard. It's only after Leonard is sentenced that the public learned that he was a Mob hitman with eighteen dea...

  • Outsourced

    Following on from his ultra noir trilogy - Small Crimes, Pariah and Killer - is Outsourced, Zeltserman's most commercial book to date. A classic heist thriller pitched somewhere between Ocean's Eleven and Dog Day Afternoon, it's the story of a group...

  • The Caretaker of Lorne Field

    Jack Durkin is the ninth generation of Durkins who have weeded Lorne Field for nearly 300 years. Though he and his wife Lydia are miserable and would like nothing more than to leave, Jack must wait until his son has come of age to tend the field on h...

  • 21 Tales

    Brutal 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 ma...



  • A Killer's Essence

    Stan Green is a New York City Homicide Detective who has seen better days. As his family life threatens to disintegrate and his work partner disappears, he is assigned to the most shocking case of his career-a strange and remarkably violent murder. S...

  • The Dame

    From the author of the groundbreaking critically acclaimed 'man out of prison' noir trilogy (Small Crimes, Pariah, Killer) comes an exciting new novella series mixing hardboiled crime with government conspiracy.In this explosive followup to THE HUNTE...

  • The Hunted

    Will you be able to figure out the mind-blowing secret of THE HUNTED?From the author of the groundbreaking 'man out of prison' noir trilogy (Small Crimes, Pariah, Killer) comes an exciting new novella series mixing hardboiled crime with government co...

  • Monster

    The supernatural, unmissable new novel by the ALA Best Horror award nominee. In nineteenth-century Germany, one young man counts down the days until he can marry his beloved . . . until she is found brutally murdered, and the young man is accused of ...

  • The Interloper

    THE EXPLOSIVE NEW CRIME NOVEL BY THE SHAMUS AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND NPR-SHORTLISTED “BEST MYSTERY AND CRIME WRITER”In The Interloper, Dave Zeltserman’s unique talent (“deserves comparison with the best of James Ellroy” " Publisher’s We...

  • The Boy Who Killed Demons

    “My name’s Henry Dudlow. I’m fifteen and a half. And I’m cursed. Or damned. Take your pick. The reason? I see demons.” In dreary Newton, MA, nothing ever happens―at least not until Hendry Dudlow turns thirteen and notices that his nei...

  • Husk

    Classic contemporary horror from the Shamus and Derringer-winning author of Small Crimes. Charlie is a Husker on the prowl in the New Hampshire wilderness when he falls in love with one of them: a girl named Jill. Loving Jill means leaving the Hu...

  • Everybody Lies in Hell

    "In Everybody Lies in Hell Mike Stone's eternal damnation is a private detective's office in a re-imagined Brooklyn. In Hell, the beautiful woman with a case opens a literal Pandora's Box, and Stone is soon inundated by all-too-recognizable evils ...

  • Brother's Keeper

  • Unlucky Seven

    The seven short stories in this impressive collection from Zeltserman (21 Tales) combine sharp-edged prose with grim twists Publishers Weekly (starred review)A bartender once again dragged down by his brother. A street Santa on his last legs. Despera...



  • Julius Katz and the Two Cousins

  • More Julius Katz and Archie

    The puzzles are clever, and Zeltserman plays fair with readers. Stout devotees will be delighted with this loving homage. Publishers Weekly (starred review)The award-winning Julius Katz mysteries have delighted readers since first appearing in Ellery...

  • Two More Tacos, a Beretta .32, and a Pink Butterfly

    When a brutal mob hit occurs inside the victim's bedroom, and the killer isn't careful enough to look under the bed to make sure there aren't any witnesses, there are consequences—namely, a naked blonde witness who is able to escape the apartm...

  • Two More Tacos, a Beretta.32, and a Pink Butterfly

  • Black Cat Weekly #118

       This issue, we have 17 short stories and 2 novel serials for you -- one of our largest lineups ever! (Of course, quite a few of the stories are short, and hopefully you like awful-pun stories…)   On the mystery fron...

  • Julius Katz and Archie

    The award-winning Julius Katz mysteries have delighted thousands of mystery fans since first appearing on the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in 2009, winning a Shamus, Derringer and two Ellery Queen's Readers Awards. 'Julius Katz' introduced ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dave Zeltserman has published 25 books.

Dave Zeltserman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Julius Katz and Archie, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Dave Zeltserman, In His Shadow, was published in January 2002.

Yes. Dave Zeltserman has 1 series.
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