Breaches & Betrayals

Zelvin's short fiction has been called "masterful" and "nuanced" by editors and reviewers and "satisfying," "powerful," and "chilling" by readers and fellow writers. BREACHES & BETRAYALS brings together for the first time eight stories previously published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Mysterical-E, and other e-zines and anthologies. Of "A Breach of Trust," which appeared on the prestigious list of Best American Mysteries 2014, one reader said, "The voice never wavers, and I was hooked from the first sentence." The times range from the Roman occupation of Britain to the 1950s to the present, the protagonists from an 11-year-old girl to a burnt out Vietnam vet to a cantankerous old farmer, the crimes from art theft to domestic violence to judicial murder. Although they're all crime fiction, each story has a different flavor: urban fantasy, flash fiction both historical and contemporary, revenge served hot in one story and cold in another. Sit back and enjoy the ride.


Genre: Mystery