The perfect holiday gift for the crime fiction lover in your life! Curated by New York Times bestselling author Tod Goldberg, this collection of twelve delightful and twisted Hanukkah capers will entertain you through all eight nights of the Festival of Lights.
This captivating collection, which features bestselling and award-winning authors, contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of Hanukkah noir, and poignant reminders of the meaning of the Festival of Lights.
The anthology includes Lee’s story, If I Were a Rich Man, featuring Ray Boyd, the “anti-Reacher,” a character introduced in the collection Crown Vic. Other stories are by James D.F. Hannah, David L. Ulin, Ivy Pochoda, Nikki Dolson, J.R. Angelella, Jim Ruland, Liska Jacobs, Gabino Iglesias, and Stefanie Leder, and Tod Goldberg, who edited the book and wrote the foreword.
“My favorite story in Eight Very Bad Nights is Lee Goldberg’s If I Were a Rich Man, featuring his anti-hero Ray Boyd tracking down a bundle of stolen cash during Hanukkah. Boyd plays all the notes just right and even falls into a honeytrap with both eyes open. Of course, everything works out for Boyd and the trip is a blast.” Dark City Underground
“Tod Goldberg’s titular story as well as brother Lee’s If I Were a Rich Man — the latter involving a Jewish ex-con, now a dementia patient in a retirement home in Merced — bring on the funny while being wildly observant.” Los Angeles Times
“This outstanding collection of 11 stories uses Hanukkah to shadow events that occur around the Jewish holiday… while eight stories would be in keeping with Hanukkah’s legend, readers will be grateful for the extra stories as each is a winner. Savor these dark, yet energetic stories as you light the menorah. The Goldberg brothers, each an established author, contribute vastly different stories, with Lee Goldberg’s con man in If I Were a Rich Man and Tod Goldberg’s clueless businessman who just wants to make payroll in the titular Eight Very Bad Nights.” Oline Cogfill, Knight-Ridder Newspapers
“A deliciously dark array of noir stories laced with humor and wry poignancy for the season written by eleven authors. They include If I Were a Rich Man by his wildly successful older brother. He has reprised anti-hero Ray Boyd from his own collection Crown Vic and Lee cautions faithful readers that this one is rude, crude and full of sex and violence despite its incongruous setting in a Jewish retirement home in Merced.” Booktrib