Moments after each of three conventional, middle-class American men has murdered his wife in a different part of the city, Rudy, Bud and Chip, rendezvous at the legendary Paris café, La Coupole, to celebrate their liberation and re-live the thrill o...
Trish is torn, between her lifelong moral code and her seething desire for the man she loves -- who happens to be happily married.Or is he? As the story begins, Trish realizes that her secret love is a one-way heartache. She must make her boss, All...
The rarest lost book in history has been found, and stolen all over again, in Paris. Its pursuers include the most diabolical literary criminal in the world, Krisko Krillkin. The man who re-lost the masterpiece, bookseller Chester Quinn, is hopele...
Franklin Roosevelt Cribbs’ summer job, at an art and music camp in the Wisconsin woods, spiraled into the wildest journey of his life. But this was true for almost anyone in that summer of 1968. Camp Nantoka was a piece of Chicago ripped from it...
Reporter Steve Knight has stumbled into a terrorist plot to destroy Japan's Imperial family and turn Asia's model democracy into a gangster state. Along with his fierce and beautiful sidekick, Mie Nishimura, Steve joins forces with"Japan hand" Ike Gr...
For a kid named Cribbsy, the month of November, 1963, was a private train wreck weeks before JFK undertook his fatal motorcade in Dallas. Cribbsy is tangled in a half-dozen romantic crises. He’s hounded by malevolent dwarfs. He’s under th...
Burning crosses on lawns and swastikas on Jewish graves? These are outrages wildly out of place in neighborly Hercules, Wis. But when a rash of hate crimes strikes, villagers turn to ex-police chief Jim Otis for help. Trouble is, after a s...
Fat Vinny, the most repulsive eighth-grader in the history of Tomah, is in love. He has chosen as the apple of his eye the wrongest girl he could possibly pursue. Worse than that, he has decided to involve in his sexual awakening the only kid on eart...
Where the hell is Carrie Crowfoot? Jim Otis, police chief of Hercules, Wis., doesn't know. But he suspects that the disappearance of the popular high-school cheerleader connects somehow to his nemesis, teenage femme fatale, Josie Dobbs. But Josie has...
Saint Paul, Private Eye! It is written, in Matthew, that Jesus, on the cross, cried out, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Was this all Jesus said? Who was present to hear him say anything at all? His disciples had fled in fear...
Sixth-grader Henry Haddock’s personal war with School Board Chairman “Scooter” McDuff starts innocently. Over breakfast one day, Henry complains that his favorite teacher has been laid off in a sudden, sneaky burst of budget cuts. H...
Bruno is an African American male kindergartener who has anger issues. He attends an all boys kindergartener class. Over the course of the year, Bruno managed to learn to control his anger issues and learned to become friends with a boy named Timmy....
Steve and Mie are a pair of globetrotting journalists, based in Paris, who make up fanciful stories about strangers they see at nearby tables in bistros, bars and brasseries. When they start spinning yarns about a waitress, Mireille, and a down-and-o...
Is GiGi—Biggy’s grandmother—a living repository of all past human adventures, or is she a liar? And will she keep shrinking until she disappears forever from the wonderful book-smelling room in her house on Lake StreetGiGi has told ...
Farfel has sworn an oath to serve and protect the people of New York. Unfortunately, his master is killing the people of New York. Farfel is a German shepherd and a retired NYPD K-9 police officer. Early in David Benjamin’s new novel, a dark co...
Author David Benjamin, who’s always been fascinated by Christmas, has been writing slightly offbeat yuletide tales since he was sixteen.Christmas in a Jugular Vein compiles 38 of Benjamin’s wildly variant and slightly transgressive holida...