Tony Knighton
Tony is the author of the collection Happy Hour and Other Philadelphia Cruelties and the novels Three Hours Past Midnight and A Few Days Away. He is a lieutenant in the Philadelphia Fire Department, a thirty-six-year veteran. He’s trying to see if he likes the job.
Books by Tony Knighton
A Night at the Shore
A professional thief takes his girlfriend on a trip to the shore—but only to check out an easy heist he can't resist. She's had enough of his criminal life and intends to leave him. The 'easy' job goes bad fast, trapping him on an island in the midst of a deadly storm....pursued by the law and ruthless killers. He has to escape or he's going to lose the woman he loves... if he doesn't lose his life first.
A Few Days Away
After a heist goes fatally wrong, a professional thief returns to a corrupt town to settle the score.
Three Hours Past Midnight
A professional thief steals a state senator's safe full of cash...and then has it stolen from him...and then tears up the city trying to get it back.
Featured Book
Happy Hour…and Other Philadelphia Cruelties By Tony Knighton
A stunning anthology of Philadelphia-set crime stories. In "Happy Hour," the title story, a small-time grifter steals an overcoat on Christmas Eve and finds a pair of gloves, a pack of gum, and forty thousand dollars in the pocket. But his unexpected score soon becomes an icy nightmare.
