Loners — Mark Safranko

Murderers and serial killers. . .Jilted lovers and outcasts. . . Broken men and lost women. . . Loners.

Cutting across genres for more than 20 years, Mark SaFranko has excelled in charting the life of the outsider. This collection includes nine of SaFranko's stories. . . all shot through with his trademark realism.

Mark SaFranko's tales will appeal to fans of the first-person realism of Fante and Bukowksi, while the spiralling effects of being an outsider have drawn comparisons to Harry Crews [The Gospel Singer] and Chester Himes [A Rage In Harlem]. Some of the stories will shock [Just Next Door], some will thrill [Alley Night], some will provoke thought [Life Change] but all have the page-turning energy of writers such as Joe R. Lansdale [Mucho Mojo].

New York Times bestselling crime author Seymour Shubin [Anyone's My Name] introduces the stories, hailing Loners as "a collection of brilliant short stories that had me twisting inwardly as I read them. . .They are magnificent."