My Name Was Gerry Sass, Tiffany Hanssen
My Name Was Gerry Sass, Tiffany Hanssen
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My Name Was Gerry Sass

Author: Tiffany Hanssen

Narrator: Chris Henry Coffey, Jay Myers, Angel Pean

Unabridged: 5 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/12/2026

Categories: Fiction, Crime


Synopsis

The Sopranos meets Six Feet Under in this thrilling debut crime novel about the killing of a hitman-for-hire, his daughter who wants revenge, and a priest who accidentally witnessed everything.

Gerry Sass is not who he appears to be. On the surface, he is the proud owner of a local country music station outside of Mystic, Iowa. Beneath it, he’s a mob-connected hitman-for-hire who launders money through the station WIOA.

One morning in 1986, his life of crime catches up to him when two men march him out into the woods and shoot him in the back of the head. Plunged into purgatory, he’s doomed to a painful examination of his life. Unbeknownst to the assassins, Gerry’s closest friend, a Catholic priest named Father Dan, witnesses his execution yet does nothing to stop it.

Meanwhile, Gerry’s daughter, Early, jumps into his prized Mustang with a thirst for revenge. On her adrenaline-fueled hunt, she comes to realize that she’s more like Gerry than she ever chose to admit.

Alternating between the voices of a grieving and adrenaline-fueled daughter, a guilt-ridden priest with no one he can trust, and the voice of a dead killer not quite yet gone, My Name Was Gerry Sass exposes the complicated natures of family, grief, and God in this propulsive and darkly funny novel.

About Tiffany Hanssen

Tiffany Hanssen is the on-air host for WNYC during Weekend All Things Considered. Before moving to WNYC, she produced several shows, including producing and writing for Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion for fourteen years. She is a Grammy Award nominee, an Audie Award winner, and a prize-winning screenwriter. Although born in Iowa and a longtime Minnesotan, she currently lives in Manhattan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate | Date With A Thriller on May 10, 2026

I love it when you go into a book with your gut feeling being on the fence, wondering whether it’s really the right book for you, and you end up pleasantly surprised and love it! 🙌 I was hooked from the start and really loved the Early character! A solid debut that I definitely recommend checking out......more

Goodreads review by Robert on May 03, 2026

My Name was Gerry Sass, Tiffany Hanssen’s debut novel, is a small time, small town American crime novel. This is not a criticism. It is just to set expectations around a book that centres around a fairly small time criminal, his daughter and his friend a priest with his own criminal connections. My N......more

Goodreads review by Stacy40pages on May 06, 2026

My Name Was Gerry Sass by Tiffany Hanssen. Thanks to @atlanticcrime for the gifted Arc ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Gerry Sass may just seem like a small town radio show owner, but he’s also a mob connected hit man laundering through the station. One morning it catches up with him when he’s shot through the head. His best......more

Goodreads review by Sue - Recos and Reads on April 22, 2026

Hit men. A conflicted Priest. 80’s references - sounds good right? With alternating short chapters between three of the main characters this is a fast read at just over 200 pages. 📘 INSIDE THE PAGES Gerry’s past is anything but ordinary. Now running a small local radio station and living in 200 acres......more

Goodreads review by Claudete on May 22, 2026

Gerry Sass was a man whose life was always tangled with violence, from his upbringing to his career choices that led him to the Vietnam war and when back home to work as "killer for hire". He was plagued by violence, he could not deal with a normal household life but he loved Early, his daughter. He......more