Johnnie LoDuco needs some help. A promising career as a petty thief, vagrant, pornographer and mooch has stalled, and Johnnie is at loose ends. He's hiding out in a friend's garage, trying to come up with his next move. To complicate matters, he's just pulled his best friend's head out of the Great South Bay while fishing for flounder. Right now the head is in a plastic garbage bag, stuffed in the refrigerator. And suddenly some very heavy people have become interested in his existence. Things couldn't get any worse, he thinks. He's about to find out how wrong he is.

Welcome to the official website of Marc Lecard, crime novelist and short-story writer.  Read an excerpt from my first novel Vinnie’s Head,  coming out from St. Martin’s Minotaur in March 2007.  A short list of my published stories, along with  free online tales, lives here.  Read about  my path to publication and my daily life. The latest news about bookstore appearances  and other events can be found here . And you can read C.J. Lyons' interview with me in Spinetingler magazine here.

Read what some great writers have said about Vinnie's Head:

"For those of us who like our crime writing with a dose of dark humor, Vinnie's Head is the ticket. Great characters, pace, style, and story -- Marc Lecard has chops!" -- Christopher Moore, New York Times Bestselling Author of A Dirty Job and You Suck

"If you want a blend of 'Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia' and 'The Sopranos,' but with dazzling writing and mesmerising characters, this book is it and so much, much more, a dark diamond of that rarity, sheer readability. You don't realize how well crafted the writing is til you've read the novel in one straight sitting. Debuts don't come any better than this." --Ken Bruen, author of The Dramatist and American Skin

"Marc Lecard's savagely funny, fast-paced debut is -- forgive me -- head and shoulders over the competition. You'll love Johnnie LoDuco, the ultimate fall guy who tries to help an old friend, only to find himself way over his you-know-what. I can't wait to read the next twisted thing Lecard fishes out of the dark lake of his imagination." --Duane Swierzynski, author of The Wheelman and The Blonde

It's a Crime

See photographic evidence of me reading Vinnie's Head in various bookstores, and people actually listening.

Aunt Agatha's Used and New Mysteries,
Detection, and True Crime Books, Ann Arbor, Michigan

"M" Is for Mystery
San Mateo, California

I'll be at Left Coast Crime in Denver, Colorado March 6 through 9 I'm on the panel "Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard" Thursday, March 6, 2:45-3:30 p.m. with fellow panelists Jess Lourey John H. Getze and Joseph Pittman Moderator: Mario Acevedo

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