About Albert

Albert Tucher has been a librarian, operatic tenor, lifeguard, dishwasher, airline groundling, and labor organizer, perhaps making it inevitable that he would embark on the one career in which no experience is wasted—writer.

In the summer of 2000 he walked into a fiction writing class at the local county college with an idea about a historical novel set in early medieval Rome. It hadn’t yet occurred to him to write what he liked to read—noir crime fiction.

Challenged to write an action story, he came up with a suburban sex worker in a jam. Her name came to him immediately—Diana Andrews. Twenty-plus years, more than a hundred published short stories, a novella, and five unpublished novels later, he is still writing about the character. He has interviewed women in Diana’s business and confirmed what he suspected from the start—the deception and self-deception on both sides of the prostitution transaction are as noir as it gets.

In 2017 Albert Tucher spun off characters from Diana’s world into a second series set on his favorite place in the world, the Big Island of Hawaii. But this is not the Hawaii of the tourist brochures. Sparsely populated and lightly policed, the rainforest is home to marijuana farmers, meth cookers, fugitives, survivalists, and counter-culture holdovers. And the goddess Pele could decide at any moment to obliterate it all with a volcanic eruption.

The setting is a natural for noir.

Albert Tucher lives in New Jersey, and he loves NJ Turnpike jokes.