Desperate Detroit and Stories of Other Dire Places — Loren D. Estleman

As featured in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal

"Loren Estleman is my hero." --Harlan Coben

Desperate Detroit and Stories of Other Dire Places represents forty years of suspense writing in the short form.  Previously published in a host of magazines and anthologies, with a new Preface and introductions to the stories written especially for this collection, these eighteen tales feature gangsters, private eyes, psychotic killers, hitmen, feuding families, prostitutes, prizefighters, bodyguards, corrupt cops, the walking dead, and ordinary people driven by desperation to commit acts of violence.