Announcing 156 Homicides!
My latest book, 156 Homicides, will be released by Level Best Books on December 2nd! This is a major project that I spent a year writing, one flash fiction story a day. The book explores the effects that a particularly intense year of crime has on the city of Milwaukee. The book consists of 356 flash fiction stories, each told by a different narrator or narrators, each showing a different perspective on the way that murder affects individuals and society.
Here is the book blurb:
How does murder shape an American city? 156 Homicides is composed of 365 short chapters, each set during a different day of the year, each one narrated by one or more people who have been affected by violence. The over four hundred different narrators come from every conceivable background, and include police officers, grieving loved ones, prosecutors, defense lawyers, trauma surgeons, witnesses, clergymen, gang members, journalists, professors, politicians, criminals, bloggers, children, business owners, and even the perpetrators and victims. The tone of the stories ranges from farcical capers led by inept criminals, to heartbreaking stories of families devastated by the losses of loved ones. Every corner of the city is a setting at some point, from graffiti-scarred alleys to churches filled with mourners, from the universities to the parks, from Lake Michigan to the city’s downtown, from the poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods to the nineteenth-century mansions built by Milwaukee’s first millionaires. No corner of the city is left untouched by the effects of crime.
156 Homicides includes slice-of-life tales, police procedurals, cozy mysteries, private eye narratives, noir, suspenseful adventures with twist endings, opinionated musings, and family dramas. This epic mosaic novel depicts both the worst and the best aspects of society, but it’s not just about crime. 156 Homicides is a story about people, adversity, and ultimately, hope.
It’s a massive work, possibly my most ambitious project yet. And here’s the cover!
–Chris Chan
Chris Chan’s flash fiction collection 156 Homicides will be published on December 2nd! His book Sherlock Poems retells the entire Sherlock Holmes Canon in verse. He is also the author of the CWA Dagger Long Listed The Autistic Sleuth, written with the professional guidance of his mother Dr. Patricia Meyer Chan, and he has also written the Agatha and Anthony-nominated book on the Columbo killers, Some of My Best Friends Are Murderers! He is the author of the Funderburke and Kaiming novels Ghosting My Friend and She Ruined Our Lives and Well-Behaved Children Seldom Make History, released by Level Best Books. He is also the author of the comedic novels Sherlock’s Secretary and Nessie’s Nemesis, published by MX Publishing, as was his anthology Of Course He Pushed Him and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories Volumes 1 & 2. His Agatha-nominated book Murder Most Grotesque: The Comedic Crime Fiction of Joyce Porter was published by Level Best Books. His first non-fiction book, Sherlock & Irene: The Secret Truth Behind “A Scandal in Bohemia” is available for sale at Amazon.com and the MX Publishing website, as well as at Book Depository (with free worldwide shipping there). It is also available in a Kindle edition.
–Chris Chan
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