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Peter Blauner (born October 29, 1959) is an American author, journalist, and television producer. Blauner has written nine novels, including Slow Motion Riot, which won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America [2] and was named an International Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement .
Peter Blauner is the author of nine novels, including Slow Motion Riot, winner of an Edgar Allan Poe award for best first novel from Mystery Writers of America, and The Intruder, a New York Times bestseller and a bestseller overseas. He began his career as a journalist for New York magazine in the 1980s and segued into writing fiction in the 1990s.
Long story short, I took a wrong turn and like the guy in the old song I just kept going. I was a normal kid—well, actually, not that normal—but I was interested in some of the usual kid business, to an unusually obsessive degree. Sports, rock and roll, and comic books. I had a big stack of Batmans and Fantastic Fours, like a lot of other ...
Peter Blauner (b. 1959) is the Edgar-winning, New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including SLOW MOTION RIOT and THE INTRUDER. A native of New York City, he apprenticed under famed newspaper columnist Pete Hamill and first broke into print as a journalist for New York magazine. His books are detailed, character-driven crime novels ...
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Jan 19, 2023 · Peter Blauner's career has spanned several generations of New York City storytelling, and several mediums as well. A native of Manhattan and current Brooklyn resident, he began as an assistant to legendary NYC newspaperman Pete Hamill. He then spent ten years writing for New York Magazine, covering cops, politicians, boxers, rappers, and other oddities of urban life. His first novel, 1992’s ...
“Peter Blauner’s new novel is being marketed as a thriller, just as his first five were, but this New York City crime writer is up to a lot more than that. Sure, the plot is tense, intricate, and full of surprises, but it’s not the plot that matters in a Blauner novel. It’s the characters.” —Associated Press
Jake Schiff is a successful New York lawyer trying to do right by his family. John Gates is a mentally disturbed man barely surviving on the streets. Their worlds collide violently when Jake’ s wife Dana tries to help John as a psychiatric patient. John decides that Jake has somehow usurped the life that was meant for him.
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