Joseph G. Peterson is an American novelist and poet from Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in Wheeling, Illinois and attended Wheeling High School. He worked at an aluminum mill and then studied philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Genres: Mystery
New and upcoming books
Novels
Beautiful Piece (2009)
Inside the Whale (2011)
Wanted: Elevator Man (2012)
Gunmetal Blue (2017)
Ninety-Nine Bottles (2019)
Memorandum from the Iowa Cloud Appreciation Society (2022)
The Perturbation of O (2025)
Frank Buck: Chicago Hitman (2026)
Inside the Whale (2011)
Wanted: Elevator Man (2012)
Gunmetal Blue (2017)
Ninety-Nine Bottles (2019)
Memorandum from the Iowa Cloud Appreciation Society (2022)
The Perturbation of O (2025)
Frank Buck: Chicago Hitman (2026)
Collections
Novellas and Short Stories
Joseph G Peterson recommends
The Beast in Aisle 34 (2021)
Darrin Doyle
"Darrin Doyle is a dark and ingenious metaphor-maker par excellence, and The Beast in Aisle 34–besides being a wonderful tall tale of a man bitten by a werewolf who succumbs to the bliss of his full-moon nocturnal transformations–reads like an antic metaphor of an addict whose life revolves around getting a fix. It’s a haunted and haunting fable of our times."
