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Jason Allison

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Born

in New York, NY, The United States

June 02

Website

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Crime, Fiction, Thriller

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Bronx-born and raised, Jason Allison spent twenty years with the NYPD, mostly as a homicide detective. His fiction has won a minor regional award and been featured in Rock and a Hard Place, Fighting Words: Bruisers, Brawlers & Bad Intentions, and New England’s Best Crime Stories. He and his wife live in Massachusetts with a judgmental Golden Retriever.

He is represented by Alec Shane of Writers House and posts intermittently about culture at jasonallison.substack.com.

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Average rating: 4.71 · 51 ratings · 21 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Rock and a Hard Place, Issue 7: Winter 2022 by Roger Nokes, Jason Allison (Goodreads Author), Rusty Barnes (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rock and a Hard Place, Issue 8: Summer 2022 by Roger Nokes, Mike McHone, Jennifer Stark 4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deadly Nightshade: Best New England Crime Stories 2022 by Susan Oleksiw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christine Bagley (Editor), Leslie Wheeler (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rock and a Hard Place, Issue 11: Summer 2024 by Roger Nokes (Editor), Joshua Murray, Colin Brightwell 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fighting Words: Bruisers, Brawlers, & Bad Intentions by Scott Blackburn (Goodreads Author), Jason Allison (Goodreads Author) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rock and a Hard Place, Issue 14: Summer 2025 by Jason Allison (Goodreads Author), Christine Blackwicks, Libby Cudmore (Goodreads Author) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wolfsbane: Best New England Crime Stories 2023 by Christine Bagley (Editor), Susan Oleksiw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Leslie Wheeler (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Shadow Ticket

by Thomas Pynchon

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Myopic Duplicity: Do the Ends Ever Justify the Means?

by Jeff Circle

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The Atlas

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