What do Godzilla, a first love, basketbal, Christmas, Maid Marion, Darth Vader, Tooth Fairies, the BLOB, ice cream, books, angels, an old pick-up, dogs, doves, bears, and, oh yeah, that "Rat" have in common? They are all part of "Dad's Neighborhood."...
In the tradition of T. C. Boyle,Steven Millhauser, and Michel Faber -- with a penchant forthe macabre worthy of Irvine Welsh -- comes Eating Mammals.
Gypsies, businessmen, servants, masters, and unwise children come together ...
Returning home from his wool mill in France in 1869, self-made Yorkshire businessman Isaac Brookes never suspects that a chance encounter on a train will alter the world's gastronomical landscape. But when he meets, and almost kills, Rodrigo Vermilio...
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO JERRY PICCO?*** Farewell My Lovely meets Californication ***Meet Jack Storm PhD, disgraced ex-college professor and unlicensed PI. Since getting turfed out of Berkeley for violent misconduct, he’s turned his brains and his 250...
This novella and the other stories are based on experiences and observations made during the early Vietnam War in I Corps around Danang. Their central theme is loneliness, depression, isolation and the randomness of war....
Someone wants you dead. You don’t know who. Or why.John Ray is called to the scene of a violent murder. The victim is an old associate of his father, local crime boss Tony Ray. There’s no obvious motive for the crime, but everybody agrees on one ...
Avenida Hope: una novela negra y de misterio. No puedes cambiar tu pasado. ¿Pero tu futuro?John Ray, hijo del capo de crimen Antonio 'Tony' Ray 'Tony', es el tipo bueno de la familia. Con un negocio exitoso y un nivel de vida alto, no quiere t...
When good and evil come home***Following the violent murder of his father, John Ray is getting his life back on track, and putting the criminal past of his family behind him. But when Shirley Kirk of the West Yorkshire Police asks him for a favour, h...
US version. The debut thriller in a gripping new British detective crime fiction series.For fans of Harlen Coben and Ian Rankin.A striking debut. Peter RobinsonAn outstandingly good first instalment. The QuietusBreakneck pace, terrific protagonist an...
Tony Pettyjohn grew up in a textile town, Maple Grove, North Carolina, raised by a good-timing, single mother in the home of an abusive grandfather until sentenced to reform school for stealing a blouse for his mother's birthday. After release he wor...