Seventeen-year-old Jason McGuire is on death row for the murders of his brother and father. When his case comes up for appeal, Jason refuses to assist in his own defense, saying he killed them because "he felt like it". But Bryan Delafield, his lawye...
In The City Kid, Guy Griffith, gay, 40, and less than satisfied with the current state of his life, comes to San Francisco like many before him--as a refugee from some intimacy gone disastrously wrong in the huge nation east of the bay. When he meets...
Paul Reidinger's second novel, first published in 1989, concerns a mysterious family murder and the efforts of an idealistic young lawyer to figure out what really happened even as his professional relationship with the murderer, a surly teenage boy,...
At the heart of Paul Reidinger's new novel The Bad American, we find Roy North, an American prone to daydreaming, and his mother, a widowed woman with little patience for daydreamers or much else. When a health crisis engulfs her, their little family...
There’s no family like an unhappy family, and there’s no family more unhappy than the Mackenzies, whose only daughter has married down, down, down, wincingly down. Yet there’s something more about the hated son-in law â€" himself an accomplishe...