Koenig, Joseph

Joseph Koenig is an author of hard-boiled fiction. A former crime reporter, he won critical acclaim and an Edgar nomination for his first novel, "Floater" (1986), a grimly violent story of con men, cops, and killers in the Florida Everglades. His next two novels were "Little Odessa" (1988), a darkly comic tale of life in New York s Ukrainian underworld, and "Smugglers Notch "(1989), a story of brutal murder in snowbound Vermont. Koenig s fourth novel, the groundbreaking "Brides of Blood" (1993), won strong reviews for its elegant treatment of police procedure in Islamic Iran.For nearly two dec...