Albert Tucher
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Gulp!
January 17th, 2022 00:04 by Albert Tucher
I haven’t posted in a while, but I have some big news to report. As of yesterday I am president of the New York Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. These are, of course, difficult times for any organization. My predecessor Erica Obey did the heavy lifting of adjusting to Covid, and did it magnificently, but challenges remain. I see more Zoom in our immediate future, and probably after that as well.
Theoretically I’m eligible for two two-year terms. We’ll see how I feel about that.
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Blood Like Rain
August 29th, 2021 00:17 by Albert Tucher
What better way to clamber out of the pandemic than with a new novel? Blood Like Rain is out from the Shotgun Honey imprint of Down And Out Books. Detective Errol Coutinho of the Hawaii County Police has more enemies than anyone needs and the coldest murder case in Hawaii to solve. Available here
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Now it's getting old.
March 28th, 2021 19:03 by Albert Tucher
The pandemic, that is. There has been some excellent news:
My fourth Errol Coutinho/Big Island of Hawaii novel, Blood Like Rain, has a publication date of July 23.
My Diana Andrews story "Jug Handles" will appear in the anthology Asinine Assassins from Smart Rhino Productions. This one should be fun, because the title says it--dimwitted contract killers do their worst.
And I'm fully vaccinated, and my immunity should now be total.
But it's getting old.
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Pandemic update
December 27th, 2020 14:03 by Albert Tucher
I’m a little embarrassed, almost ashamed, to say that I have done pretty well during the pandemic. I have written three Jenny Freitas stories, an Agnes Rodrigues story, and four flash pieces about Diana Andrews, as well as finally discerning the shape of the next novel about Detective Errol Coutinho.
I have also recovered my reading chops after suffering a decline in my attention span over the past decade or so. Most recently I have read Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby, which is stunning rural noir, and We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper, which I give a mixed review. I found it under-edited but well worth reading.
The thing I have not done is post timely updates on my website. I will try to do better.
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Rock And a Hard Place issue 3
July 20th, 2020 14:07 by Albert Tucher
The fruit of my very first editing gig has just appeared. Rock And a Hard Place issue 3 shows the staying power of the franchise. Founding editors Roger Nokes and Jay Butkowski enlisted the aid of Katrina Robinson, Nikki Dolson and me, and I think we nailed it.
Founding editor Jonathan Elliott passed away this spring, but the essence of the man lives in these pages.
Kindle and hard copy available here
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Jenny's back!
June 12th, 2020 19:39 by Albert Tucher
Officer Jenny Freitas of the Hawaii County Police is on the case in "J.D.L.R.," which appears in the July/August issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Hawaii County is of course the island of Hawaii, aka the Big Island, and my favorite place on the planet. When the pandemic permits, I plan to go back, not least because some of my settings were destroyed by the recent eruption of Kilauea.
As the cover states, my Facebook friend Rob Lopresti also appears in this issue. That's some good company!
Get the issue here
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A little late, but ...
May 17th, 2020 18:17 by Albert Tucher
Issue 3 of Rock and a Hard Place is due out soon, but I never wrote about issue 2, the first issue on which I served as associate editor. It has the virtues we're already becoming know for--noir that extends beyond crime fiction to the world at large. Fiction, nonfiction, art, photographic essays, including my own essay, "Tough Chicks, which links my character Diana Andrews to the obscure tenth-century historical figure Marozia. The connection? Both are tough chicks, of course.
Available here
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In honor of Earth Day
April 26th, 2020 17:57 by Albert Tucher
I'm proud to be part of this anthology of crime stories on the theme of climate change. In my contribution, "The Stone Sentry," Officer Jenny Freitas of the Hawaii County Police investigates the murder of a young man. In a cruel irony, the body washes up on Kamilo Beach, where the tides and currents deposit floating garbage from all the Pacific Rim nations and the many islands in the vast ocean.
Death In the Drowned Lands is available here. Ebook is available now; the paperback will follow shortly.
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Happy New Year, I guess.
December 31st, 2019 19:18 by Albert Tucher
I’m having trouble with this. Was it really twenty years ago that I sat in Barnes & Noble and looked at the front page of the New York Times?
January 1, 2000.
Six months later I wrote the first words of my first Diana Andrews story, and that, of course, is where those twenty years went.
Well spent, too.
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Rock And A Hard Place
November 18th, 2019 19:40 by Albert Tucher
That’s the terrific new noir crime magazine with a literary streak. Editors Roger Nokes and Jay Butkowski published my Diana story “Chlorilne” in the first issue, and now they have really gone out on a limb. They have invited me to join the editorial staff.
I swallowed hard and accepted with thanks. Editing is a new gig for me. I’m hard at work reading submissions to Issue 2. Sure hope I don’t disgrace myself.
Just kidding. I think.
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