"A hundred thousand welcomes! I could weep
    And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. Welcome."
                                        -- Coriolanus, Act II, Scene I

Welcome to Jason-Loeffler.com, the official page for Jason Loeffler, author of The Devil's Purpose - a present-day Shakespearean mystery. Here you can read sample chapters from the novel, get to know Jason, and also access a few of his other, shorter works. So, enjoy!

The Devil's Purpose - (Now seeking REPRESENTATION)

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When Chicago’s chief of police turns up dead, Sebastian Hunt is on the run. And it gets worse: not only is this young actor the perfect patsy for the murder, but he'll also have to bargain for asylum from the dead man’s pseudo-son, forensic sketch-artist Joe Kincaid, if he wants to survive--a proposition Joe's estranged wife, Mary, isn’t about to make without a fight. But, as another death rattles the household, the three are pressed into a dangerous game of trust—one that will make Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice the key to a sin long-buried in the city’s sordid past and prove, as the Bard hath written, that even the devil can cite scripture for his purpose…

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A Sparrow's Fall - (Now seeking REPRESENTATION)

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While auditioning for the title role in Hamlet at DePaul, a ghost from Sebastian Hunt’s murky past at last returns to haunt him. His father, wanted by Interpol, offers him a deal: help him recover a young woman’s diary from the Chicago Police…or else. But when the diary’s author turns out to be Sebastian’s only girlfriend—and his foster mother’s latest mental patient—there’s barely time to breathe before ex-detective Joe Kincaid unearths Chicago's freshest homicide: a U.S. marine, killed by none other than Sebastian’s very kin...and whose death may, ultimately, lead one good man to war...and another, greater man to fall...

 Short Stories -  available online

     Cold Burn - a tale of Russian family squabbles
     A Stitch in Time - Father Time bequeaths his curse
     The Hunt - an Avon Lady preps her hubby for burial
     The Blue Fairy - a hate crime becomes avenged
     Afternoon of the Iguana - one P.A. vs. one reptile
     Eau de Smoking Rubber - a bank heist gone bad
     Snow Angel - a mother-daughter bonding moment
     Sub-texting - missed connections, missed signals...