Everyday Malfeasance — Jim DeFilippi

Only two things keep EVERYDAY MALFEASANCE from being a crime novel like Jim's other books -- it's not about crime and it isn't a novel.

Rather, it is a collection on potentially humorous essays, incidents, very short stories, vignettes -- each one about everyday people trying to get by, stay out of trouble, maybe bend the rules when necessary. The Italians call it “fregatura,” that normal activity just-this-side-of criminal behavior.

So maybe the book is about crime, in a way. And maybe all the little stories add up to one big story. In a way.

So let's take it back -- EVERYDAY MALFEASANCE is a crime novel.