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Dave Zeltserman

Biography

Dave Zeltserman

Dave Zeltserman is an award-winning author of crime, mystery and horror fiction. His crime novels SMALL CRIMES and PARIAH were both named by the Washington Post as best books of the year with SMALL CRIMES also being named by National Public Radio as one of the top three crime and mystery novels of 2008, his horror novel, THE CARETAKER OF THE LORNE FIELD, was shortlisted by the American Library Association for best horror novel of 2010 and was a Black Quill nominee, and his mystery fiction is regulaly published by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and has won Shamus, Derringer and Ellery Queen's Readers Choice awards.

Dave's novels have been translated to German, French, Italian, Dutch, Lithuanian and Thai. His novels OUTSOURCED and A KILLER'S ESSENCE have both been optioned for film.

Dave Zeltserman

Books by Dave Zeltserman

by Dave Zeltserman - Fiction, Horror

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 Husk clan, with its gruesome cannibalistic rituals, and that will be far more difficult --- and dangerous --- than Charlie could have foreseen. It’s only in New York City that the secret to ending his terrible cravings may reveal itself --- if it doesn’t kill him and everything he has grown to love first.

by Dave Zeltserman - Fiction, Horror

The setting is quiet Newton, Massachusetts, where nothing ever happens. Nothing, that is, until two months after Henry Dudlow’s 13th birthday, when his neighbor, Mr. Hanley, suddenly starts to look…different. While everyone else sees a balding man with a beer belly, Henry suddenly sees a nasty, bilious, rage-filled demon. Once Henry catches on to the real Mr. Hanley, he starts seeing demons all around him, and his boring, adolescent life is transformed.

by Dave Zeltserman - Fiction, Horror, Supernatural Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

In 19th-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 crime. Broken on the wheel and left for dead, he awakens on a lab table, transformed into an abomination. Friedrich must go far to take his revenge --- only to find his tormentor, Victor Frankenstein, in league with the Marquis de Sade, creating something much more sinister deep in the mountains.

by Dave Zeltserman - Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

New York City Homicide Detective Stan Green 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. He finds just one witness, a neurologically disabled recluse who sees demonic hallucinations through the souls of others.