Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of Hanukkah Noir

· RB Media · Narrated by Jasmin Walker, Johnny Heller, Emily Lawrence, and Robb Moreira
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THIS WRY COLLECTION OF HANUKKAH NOIR FEATURES ELEVEN STORIES BY CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHORS THAT RUN THE GAMUT FROM HARDBOILED TO HEARTFELT, CURATED BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR TOD GOLDBERG.

Across eleven stories, award-winning authors spin tales of family, corruption, buried treasure and delightful yet twisted capers that will entertain readers through all eight nights of the Festival of Lights.

In Stefanie Leder’s “Not a Dinner Party Person,” an unstable pharmaceutical rep tries not to kill anyone at her family dinner on the last night of Hanukkah; in Ivy Pochoda’s “Johnny Christmas,” a taciturn Gulf War vet commissions a tattoo from a man he knew from his prison days, a man not named Christmas but Goldfarb; in David L. Ulin’s “Shamash,” it’s the last night of Hanukkah, and a live-at-home adult son considers doing something drastic to get out of his elderly father’s Upper West Side apartment; in James D.F. Hannah’s “Twenty Centuries,” a pair of detectives solve a curiously unprompted murder during the holiday season. This captivating collection contains old-school slapstick comedy, hardboiled noir, gritty procedurals, and poignant reminders of the meaning of Hanukkah, offering something for almost every reader willing to take the journey through these twisted tales.

WITH STORIES BY
Ivy Pochoda, David L. Ulin, James D.F. Hannah, Lee Goldberg, Nikki Dolson, J.R. Angelella, Liska Jacobs, Gabino Iglesias, Stefanie Leder, and Jim Ruland, plus a foreword and story by Tod Goldberg.

“Out-fiddles Fiddler on the Roof! Should be made into a musical.”—Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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