Russell Atwood

A former managing editor of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Russell Atwood published his first Payton Sherwood mystery, "East of A," in EQMM in 1996 after leaving the magazine. Encouraged by a letter from a publisher, he wrote a longer work involving the East Village private eye, The Land of Plenty of Nothing, published by Ballantine as East of A in 1999, which was nominated for a Shamus award (but didn’t win). Now a decade later, Payton Sherwood returns in Losers Live Longer, another ‘round-the-clock noir nightmare of murder and betrayal set against the shadowy backdrop of a modern crumbling Lower East Side of Manhattan. Author will work for food