Selected Works

Crime Fiction
Sinners’ Ball
An unforgettable journey into the world of old-school gangsters and inherited sin that still lurks behind New York City’s antiseptic modern façade.
Old Flame
“Berkowitz flicks his cigarette ash at the noir greats and dares them to do better.”
–Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Lies
Family Matters
“Berkowitz nails New York, and in particular modern-day Hell’s Kitchen ... an impressive debut."
–Jason Starr

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Sinners' Ball

The Private Eye Writers of America has selected Sinners' Ball as Best Paperback Original Novel of 2010 and has won the coveted Shamus Award for Best Original Paperback Crime Fiction Novel of 2009.


"Angela was a tiny fifteen year-old runaway with flyaway hair, a face filled with hollows dense with shadows, and minutes left to live. "

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Old Flame
“Dark streets. Darker Secrets. Jackson Steeg thought he’d finally but all that behind him.
He was wrong.”

Family Matters
Jackson Steeg is on the skids. He’s under suspension for pushing his notions of fairness and loyalty a step to far. Steeg’s life suddenly changes when the body of a young woman – the daughter of a prominent sociallite murdered twenty years ago - is found in the apartment below his.


Ira Berkowitz was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Writing fiction was the furthest thing from his mind.

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