A bartender once again dragged down by his brother. A street Santa on his last legs. Desperation in the old west. A criminal finding out that his perfect hiding place isn’t so perfect. A writer who can’t let go of a grudge.

Zeltserman’s mystery and crime short stories have won a Shamus, two Ellery Queen Readers Awards, and a Derringer, and have been nominated for numerous other awards. This collection of seven of his darker stories features his 2020 Edgar and Macavity nominated story, Brother’s Keeper.

Praise for Dave Zeltserman:

“If there’s any other young writer out there who does crime noir better than Zeltserman, I don’t even want to know.” Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post

“As nasty and clever as noir can get” NPR on Pariah

“Dave Zeltserman is one of the best suspense writers in the business.” Steve Hamilton

“Dave Zeltserman has established himself as the most relevant author of dark crime fiction working today.” Paul Tremblay

“Zeltserman’s breakthrough third crime novel deserves comparison with the best of James Ellroy” Publisher’s Weekly on Small Crimes

“What a fine addition to the local literary scene Zeltserman’s become.” Boston Globe

Can a baby save the world?A grieving old man and an orphan girl risk their lives to bring us salvation.The followers of the one called the Deliverer work against all odds to publish the story of how God sent his son to save the world. As the books start becoming popular, they find a lost journal written decades earlier. The journal tells of an old man who teaches religious lessons to an orphan girl and how those lessons helped him to overcome his grief. As they both learn about God, they discover the Seven Fourteen prophecy from ancient Scripture. Now, through Simeon’s mystical helper and Anna’s prophetic visions, they learn the prophecy is about to come true. But first they must prevail over the unbridled madness of a medical researcher and the terrorism of a malevolent Russian Tsar.

A child is to be born to Mary and Joseph. But will December 25 bring peace and goodwill or doom and devastation?

Biblical fiction connecting the Old Testament to the Gospel story of Christ.

The “Songs of the Deliverer” trilogy re-imagines the story of Christ from prophecy to life to divine savior. “Songs of the Deliverer” novels are a unique way for youngsters to learn the Bible and know Christ.

Next Christmas in Girouette is the first in a series of novels set in a ghost town on the eastern porch of the Montana Rocky Mountains. This book will appeal to people of all ages—nine to ninety-nine—who want to share a classic, heart-warming literary adventure at Christmastime.

Next Christmas in Girouette is the story of a brother and sister—Autry and Oxana Quinn—who find themselves stranded in a Girouette, a virtual ghost town, from Thanksgiving through Christmas when their father is taken seriously ill. Their grandfather, a Marine Captain long retired, plus an eccentric old café proprietress, a Blackfeet Indian horse trader who once served as the town’s mayor, a couple who published the local newspaper and an ancient deaf-mute trapper are the only remaining inhabitants of Girouette. These self-styled, “diehards” all seem to have one thing in common. Thanks to a mysterious event 60 years earlier, they still believe in Santa Claus.

Girouette features something for everyone: carefree cowboys who race their horses over snow covered country road, a team of wolves trained to pull a dogsled, a stroll that nearly turns tragic on a buffalo jump, a serialized newspaper story titled “The Adventures of Rocky Mountain Santa,” a desperate attempt to escape from an abandoned copper mine, a night-time journey through the mountains on a frozen river and the miracle that delivers wayfaring strangers to Girouette during a storm on Christmas Eve.

The book revels in the solitary beauty of winter in Big Sky Country, the enduring wisdom of the elderly citizens of Girouette, the excitement of frontier history coming to life, the inspiration of a family healing itself and the magic of an old-fashioned western Christmas. Read Next Christmas in Girouette with your family this year, and you’ll want to revisit it for years to come at holiday time.

A contract killer. A governor’s son. And a gunshot heard around the world.

This fast-paced, action packed thriller stars a hero who’s tough like Reacher and smart like Bosch.

Back on the job after a year’s suspension, former operative turned federal agent Garrison Chase is looking to redeem himself in the Bureau’s eyes. Which should be easy, given his assignment is a routine protection detail for Stanley Tuchek, the California governor’s son.

But on the first morning of protection all hell breaks loose when Chase’s house is nearly blown up and Stanley is shot a few hours later. Furious, the governor fires Chase and tells him to stay far away from Stanley.

But Chase doubles down instead, using Stanley as bait to lure the assassin. And it works. When Chase comes face to face with the hitman, however, he’s stunned to learn the man’s identity. Even more shocking is who sent him.

Suddenly Chase is plagued by questions. He doesn’t know if his past is back to haunt him or if Stanley isn’t as innocent as he seems.

It’s a race against time–and against powerful enemies he didn’t know he had–to find the answers. Because if he doesn’t find them quickly, Garrison Chase, and everyone he loves most in the world, are as good as dead.

Thomas Prescott returns in a smoldering thriller of murder, treachery, and revenge.

His love life in shambles, retired homicide detective Thomas Prescott returns to Seattle, the very place he fled from after his parents’ deaths nearly a decade earlier. Just as Prescott is getting settled in, he sees a body floating in the private cove behind his boyhood home. It’s a woman. But not just any woman. It’s Ellen Gray—the governor of Washington—who has been missing for the past six weeks.

The lead suspect in the governor’s murder is her husband, famed defense attorney, Adam Gray. But unlike the Seattle Police Department—where Thomas was fired from several years earlier—Prescott has his doubts about Adam’s guilt. Ignoring direct orders to stay away from the case, Prescott soon finds himself drawn into the heart of the investigation.

Working side-by-side with SPD detective, Erica Frost, Prescott uncovers a sophisticated conspiracy linked to a new breed of killer. In his pursuit to catch a madman, Prescott’s investigation will take him from the state capital to the snow-covered peaks of the North Cascades and for the first time in his career, Thomas finds himself both the hunter…and the hunted.