Peter Rosch is the author of My Dead Friend Sarah, But I Love You, Future Skinny, What The Dead Can Do (coming Fall 2025 from Crooked Lane Books), and other dark fictions, many born from the addictions he chased while living in New York City. He’s sober now but remains an addict’s addict: he can turn anything fun into a serious problem. He is repped by Jake Lovell at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.

BOOKS

*** Coming Fall 2025 from Crooked Lane Books ***

A dysfunctional family becomes the guardians of their friends' young boy after a deadly plane crash, unaware that his dead mother is trying to bring him to the afterlife—if the boy's dead father doesn't stop her first

A devout anorexic who can see the future by binge-eating tries to create a timeline where he, his girlfriend, and her little girl are freed from the clutches of a violent West Texas gunrunner.

"Rosch's prose is bold and brisk, attentive to telling details, high emotions, and violations to both body and spirit... unabashed and unafraid, will please readers who prefer their fiction to break ground and boundaries..." —BookLife

"Reminiscent of the likes of other grounded, mind-bending fiction a la Neil Gaiman and Tim Powers, Future Skinny will linger in the minds of readers for a long time." —BookTrib

"...a unique story that takes many unexpected twists and turns. At once a tale of obsession, murder, prediction, and struggle, it neatly fits in no singular genre category, but will reach across them to engage readers of mystery, social issues, suspense, and novels about flawed individuals who find in their faults an unexpectedly powerful ability to survive." —D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

The FOUND anthology was incredible, trippy, and a supremely killer concept. it introduced me to many authors I’d not read yet who became fast favorites. the inclusion of my story “EMANCIPATION” in FOUND2 means so so much. Nightmare come true. And I’m eager to read the others!

Mere months into recovery, Max, an alcoholic with twisted control issues, meets Sarah – the same woman that for years he’s habitually dreamt will die after a botched abduction. "Doing the next right thing," a popular AA phrase he’s picked up in the rooms, means befriending Sarah long enough to warn her and hope she takes him seriously. But when Sarah falls in love with Max, his newly sober thinking drives him to choose his overly devoted wife, and he abandons Sarah – even when it condemns her to death. When Sarah goes missing, the NYPD suspects Max’s dream may have been a pre-crime confession. The truth, all of it, lurks inside of Max, but only by drinking again does he recapture the nerve and clarity vital to free his wife, sponsor, and himself from a life imprisoned by lies.

"Rosch expertly explores the psychology of an alcoholic... The novel tackles sobriety, truth and guilt, engrossing the reader in Max's whirlwind of problems... While depicting the realizations of a recovering alcoholic, Rosch skillfully renders a unique story of a missing woman." - Kirkus Reviews

"I can honestly say I was completely engaged with every sentence written in this story, I could not read it fast enough... Fantastic Stuff, A Very Strong 5 Stars." - The Kindle Book Review

A successful dating service maven falls for a beautiful new client, forcing the hand of her sociopathic admirer. On the well-intentioned dare of a friend, model and recovering addict Lisa Denton meets Alicia Lynn Wilde, Manhattan’s hottest matchmaker to the city’s elite and the mind behind an exclusive, very lucrative singles service built on a misguided ideal, lies, and Midwestern blue collar work ethic. Alicia’s brief encounter with this new stranger quickly begins to unsettle her meticulously curated world, and throws Lisa unwittingly into a series of unsavory—possibly lethal—events already set in motion when one of Elite Two Meet’s members claims to have been sexually assaulted by two high-profile clientele.