MurderLand is Joseph Mark Glazner’s eighth mystery novel. He has written seven others under his own name and his pen name, Joseph Louis, including the Shamus and Arthur Ellis nominated Madelaine (Bantam Books, NY, 1987).
Glazner’s new mystery thriller, MurderLand, marks his return to some of his favorite themes—revenge, greed, conspiracy theories, love, hate, and desperate characters willing to commit murder. This time, he writes from inside the head of Harry Holiday, his antihero and most irreverent character yet. Harry is an out-of-control, young businessman, gambler, and ladies’ man, planning the perfect murder to save the family’s business and himself. The family business—MurderLand—is a landmark but failing museum of murder and gangland exhibitions located in the heart of the old amusement and casino district of Niagara Falls, Canada.
In addition to writing novels, Glazner has been a tabloid writer, journalist, screenwriter, and independent communications adviser, forecaster, and speechwriter for Canadian and US corporations and governments in banking, telecommunications, and many other fields.
Glazner is a graduate of the University of Southern California (BA, psychology, magna cum laude, 1967) and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He lives in Toronto, Canada where he continues to write crime novels and memoirs. A glimpse into the life Glazner led in his twenties during the early years of the sexual revolution, free love, and the Vietnam War is portrayed in his memoir, Life After America, which recounts his arrival and his first two years in Canada (1967-1969) as a war resister, FBI fugitive, new Canadian immigrant, and John Lennon’s early collaborator on John and Yoko’s “War Is Over” peace initiative.
