Irving Schwartz
Books - Crime/Satire
All Susan wants to do is keep the family business from dissolving. That’s not too much to ask, is it? Not for a woman as smart and ambitious as Susan Keen. But sometimes smart and ambitious just aren’t enough––you need luck and willingness to be ruthless when luck comes your way. Especially when it’s bad luck. Really bad luck. That’s when you find out what you’re made of––and just how far you’re willing and able to go to turn the worst kind of bad luck into the best kind of business opportunity.
Filled with criminals and assorted bad guys. Acid Queen follows Susan as her life becomes immersed in a world where murder and organized crime are just normal parts of a business day. As Susan struggles to keep her distance from this world, she instead finds herself becoming more and more important in it.
You’ll never forget Susan Keen. And after you read Irving Schwartz/s suspenseful and acidly funny novel, you’ll never turn your back on her either.
Watch out for Jennifer—she’ll break your skull before she breaks your heart!
Meet Jennifer—just your normal, gorgeous American fun-loving girl who’s crazy about music, YouTube, shopping. . . and swatting her victims on the back of the head before she picks them clean.
The cast of Irving Schwartz’s new novel includes a phony priest, good cops, bad cops, inept Federal agents, terrorists who are anything but, and a motley collection of slackers, screw-ups, hustlers, suspicious neighbors, con artists and their marks—none of whom are anywhere near ready for the havoc Jennifer unleashes.
Irving Schwartz, the rising star of dark, sexy urban satire has done it again—and then some!
A gripping novel dripping with wit, mockery, and well-manicured lawns, Suburban Stew: A Blood Soaked Satire tells the story of an out of control family whose secrets and killing sprees are only the beginnings of their troubles.
Throughout an idealistic white-picket-fence landscape, the Kramer family finds inventive and shadowy ways to deceive each other and everyone else. But as they engage in murder and body disposal they eventually come to realize their dependence on the very ones they worked so hard to keep in the dark. As the corpses pile up, the Kramers band together to tackle their surprising problems, and leave you smiling and shaking your head the entire time.
"Irving Schwartz writes about dark subjects with a light and fluid style."
– Ira Israel, Huffington Post
