Wait till you read Pariah.
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Peter Enfantino <penfantino@gmail.com>wrote:
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> I've been lurking for a couple months and, unfortunately, have very little
> time on my hands to post but when I saw the name of Dave Zeltserman this
> morning, I just had to shout out. I just finished Small Crimes (it was
> recommended when I bought a novel by Ken Bruen on Amazon) this week and was
> (almost literally) blown away. Mr. Zeltserman, you've created a minor
> classic here (I hope that comes across correctly!). It's the best novel Jim
> Thompson never wrote. I don't want to include spoilers here just in case...
> but your descriptions of how your main character takes one step up and two
> steps back in the morals department and mentally justifies it the whole way
> through kept me turning the pages late into the night. I read quite a bit of
> crime fiction but tend to concentrate mainly on the fifties output (Manhunt
> Magazine and Gold Medals) because I find today's mystery fiction, for the
> most part, watered down and saccharine. Your Small Crimes could easily have
> been published in 1953 by Lion Books with a beautiful Maguire cover. And
> that's the biggest compliment I can pay a writer. I look forward to picking
> up your other novels.
>
> Peter Enfantino
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>
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