Jess Walter

• Feb-2001
• / Suspense
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year“Riveting. . . . Without ever taking the easy way out, the book explores the battle of good vs. evil on very human terms.” -- Washington Post Book WorldDark in mood and rich in character, Over Tumble...

• Mar-2003
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“A mystery novel of profound depth.” --  Booklist (starred review)“Walter is at his incisive best. . . . Hypnotically compelling." --  Publishers WeeklyIn this fiendishly clever and darkly funny novel, #1 New York Times bestselling ...

• Sep-2004
• / Suspense
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From the highly acclaimed new crime novelist: a story of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics, and murder -- set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1980 presidential electionIt’s the fall of 1980, the last week before the president...

• Sep-2006
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From its opening pages--when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head--novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the sm...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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Meet Matt Prior. He's about to lose his job, his wife, his house, maybe his mind. Unless . . . In the winning and utterly original novels Citizen Vince and The Zero, Jess Walter ("a ridiculously talented writer" -- New York Times) painted an Ameri...

• Apr-2012
• / General Fiction
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In this brilliantly entertaining send-up of zombie lit, Edgar Award winner and National Book Award finalist Jess Walter offers a twist on America’s favorite monster: You don’t have to be dead to be a zombie. Walter creates a postapocalyptic night...

• Jun-2012
• / General Fiction
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The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, a...

• Jun-2012
• / Mystery
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• Feb-2013
• / General Fiction
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We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity of ...

• Nov-2020
• / Historical
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The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins delivers a propulsive, richly entertaining novel about two adventure-seeking brothers, the enemies who threaten them, and the women who reveal to them an unjust world on the brink of uphe...

• Jul-2022
• / Literary
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes -- for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous -- as a diverse cast of characters bou...

• Nov-2022
• / Mystery
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A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha. New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter flexes his genre chops a...

• Jun-2025
• / Literary
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins -- and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit -- comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive ...