Daniel Koehler

Biography

Daniel Koehler is the author of four novels, "Flyover Country" (2004), "The Sleeping Cab" (2006), "Unbankerly Behavior" (2008), and "Splitting Washington" (2010). His short pieces have appeared in The Best of Tales From the South, The Birmingham Arts Journal, New Works Review, BareBack Magazine, Inner Sins, The Rusty Nail, The Storyteller, The Harvard Bulletin, among others. Literary honors include finalist status in three international screenplay competitions and regional awards for his short stories.

Prior to his writing career, he pursued professional interests in New York City. He has written software used extensively in the financial sector. He attended Leopold-Franzens Universität in Innsbruck, Austria, and is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Harvard.

Books

The Second Derivative of Irony
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 58,810. Language: English. Published: January 4, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
Eighteen stories about people in prisons of their own devise—childhood awakenings; coming-of-age quandaries; ironical comeuppances; criminal excesses; personal compulsions.
Unbankerly Behavior
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 28,770. Language: English. Published: September 3, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
In the early 1960s, small town bank president, HENRY POTTS, has maneuvered himself into a very sweet deal. He and his son-in-law are looting the bank under the guise of a cost-cutting “Unbank” ad campaign. However, his son-in-law, has a problem—he cannot keep his hands off the female help. When Henry hires a platinum-blond honky-tonk angel as his personal secretary, all hell breaks loose.
The Sleeping Cab
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 96,010. Language: English. Published: August 2, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
(5.00 from 1 review)
To FBI senior agent, JOE MAC ADAMS, the Atonement Killer is a psychopath who scrawls the word in blood across his victims' torsos, but to rookie cop, JOLENE DYKES, he is a routine vice sting gone terribly wrong. A nasty thriller about nasty people: serial killers, whores, religious cults, and the FBI.
Flyover Country
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 115,010. Language: English. Published: July 30, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Alternative history, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
In 1962, three intersecting crimes—a patricide, a bank robbery, and a kidnapping—lead to tragedy, secret sharing, redemption, and a May/September romance.
Splitting Washington
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 103,400. Language: English. Published: July 20, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
J.D. CROWELL, the President's campaign manager, is fired after an indiscreet dalliance with a beautiful biracial White House staffer. He soon discovers he has become a very inconvenient person for both the corrupt GOP President and the popular biracial Democratic challenger. Using every political dirty trick in the book, J.D. makes history while saving himself, his family, and his mistress.