The Noir Novels

 For a while it was trendy to call any crime fiction noir if it showed shades of gray. I have a much stricter definition of noir: there's an inevitability of doom. The noir protagonist has crossed a line that there's no coming back from. Whether it's murder or betrayal or something else, the noir protagonist is damned, and no matter how much he might struggle, by the end if he's still alive, he'd be just as well-off dead.

While I have several noirish crime novels that more than meet the trendier definition, I have six novels that fall squarely as noir (as well as many short stories)

Alles endet hier translates to Everything Ends Here. For now, this is only planned for Germany. Hopefully this will find a US publisher at some point.

The Roommate

 

Black Cat Weekly allows me to write and get published unusual mystery and crime stories that don't fit the standard mystery magazines. In this week's Black Cat Weekly, my story The Roommate is a mystery in both the narrowest and broadest sense. I can't promise that this story will surprise every reader who tries it, but I think it will.