"Eight Very Bad Nights, by Tod Goldberg, in Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of Hanukkah Noir, edited by Tod Goldberg, Soho Crime, 2024.
This is the fourth appearance in this space by Tod Goldberg. A short story? I think it's a novelette, but that counts.
Jack Katz runs his late father's furniture business, which was a sinking ship long before he took the helm. Now it's Hanukkah and he doesn't have the money to met payroll. This leads to him making a series of increasingly worse decisions as the nights of the holiday pass.
How bad? Well, there's confronting gangsters, drugs, theft, more drugs, sex, arson... It's a satisfying roller coaster ride.
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