Selected Anthologies

Best American Mystery & Suspense 2025: “A Dog’s Year”

Best American Mystery & Suspense 2022: “A Career Spent Disappointing People” Best American Essays 2013: “When They Let Them Bleed” Palm Springs Noir: “A Career Spent Disappointing People” Las Vegas Noir: “Mitzvah”

Eight Very Bad Nights: edited by Tod Goldberg and featuring the story of the same name. Snapshots: “Capitola”

The Killing Rain: “A Dog’s Year”

Off The Page: Essays on Craft When I Was A Loser: “The B-List Rings Twice” Brief Encounters: “Joltin Joe Has Left and Gone Away” Don’t You Forget About Me: “That’s Not a Name, That’s A Major Appliance”

The Darkling Halls of Ivy: “Goon #4” Witnesses for the Dead: “This Night In Question” The Usual Santas: “Blue Memories Start Calling” Playing Games: “Paladin”

December Tales: “Last Night at the Dairy Bar” The Silver Waves of Summer: “Summer of ’86” Tied In: “Burned”

More From Tod Goldberg:

  • Only Way Out

  • Eight Very Bad Nights

  • The Low Desert

  • Gangster Nation

  • Gangsterland

  • The House Of Secrets

  • Burn Notice

  • Other Resort Cities

  • Simplify

  • Living Dead Girl

  • Selected Anthologies

  • Gangsters Don’t Die

  • Fake Liar Cheat

  • Where You Lived