“Dunne’s bravura plotting asserts an exhilarating mastery.” -- The New York Times Book Review. In John Gregory Dunne’s celebrated third novel, Los Angeles-based criminal defense attorney Dutch Shea, Jr. struggles to keep from falling apart a...
Take a Roller Coaster Ride Through Three Tumultuous Decades of Modern America The Brodericks -- one of the most incredibly powerful and unusual families ever created: JACK Reporter, Hollywood screenwriter, renegade son running from the shadow ...
In 1940s Los Angeles, an unidentified murder victim is found bisected in a shadowy lot. A catchy nickname is given her in jest -- "The Virgin Tramp" -- and suddenly a "nice little homicide that would have drifted off the front pages in a couple of da...
“Dunne has a wicked eye for the telling details, an uncanny ear for the revealing phrase.” -- The New York Times. Quintana & Friends gathers thirty-three brilliant essays written by a pioneer of New Journalism between 1963 and 1978. John Greg...
In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne went everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio. He tracked e...
A grisly racial murder in what news commentators insist on calling “the heartland.” A feeding frenzy of mass media and seamy politics. An illicit love affair with the potential to wreck lives. In his grandly inventive last novel, John Gregory Dun...
Ireland is blessed with beautiful freshwater lakes, and while we might not have a superstar like Nessie swimming in its waters, we do have some pretty fearful creatures of our own. In this book John Dunne dives into various lakes, examining the creat...
“A book that welcomes you in, talks to you wonderfully for a while, takes you into its confidence.” -- The Los Angeles Times. In Harp, John Gregory Dunne brings home his celebrated gifts for keen observation, close reporting and vigorous humor t...