For readers of Miranda July, Rebecca Lee, and Mary Gaitskill, a debut short-story collection that is a mesmerizing blend of wit, transgression, and heart. A passive-aggressive couple in the midst of a divorce compete over whose new fling is more exotic. A Russian migrant in Tokyo agonizes over the money her lover accepts from a yakuza. A dead body on a drug dealer's floor leads to the strangest first date ever. In this razor-sharp debut collection, Jen Silverman delivers eleven interconnected stories that take place in expat bars, artist colonies, train platforms, and matchbox apartments in the United States and Japan. Unforgettable characters crisscross through these transient spaces, loving, hurting, and leaving each other as they experience the loneliness and dangerous freedom that comes with being an outsider. In "Maria of the Grapes," a pair of damaged runaways get lost in the seductive underworld beneath Tokyo's clean streets; in "Pretoria," a South African... Views: 33
Is a killer back for more?A Cavanaugh Justice story by USA TODAY bestselling author Marie FerrarellaA series of gruesome murders brings together an unlikely pair of homicide detectives: outgoing Brianna Cavanaugh and lone wolf Jackson Muldare. These utter opposites work around the clock together to solve these crimes. In the process, Jackson and Brianna must trust each other with their lives and secrets as they become closer than they ever imagined. Views: 33
Two friends. One enemy. The battle to come may claim them all.Eric 'Fletch' Fletcher faces the impossibility of his friend, Neil Moore, sitting ten feet from him in a dank cell. Very much alive years after he'd watched him die. The explanation, validated by Neil's CIA past, is convincing enough for Fletch, but the man who has taken them prisoner wants more.Earl Perkins has dreams of power and has set his sights on the one place where resistance still flourishes. To conquer those who would stand in his way, he needs something he is certain either Fletch or Neil can provide. The secret location of a virus to be unleashed upon his adversaries.Before that information can be extracted from the captive friends, a violent, daring escape sets them free. But free is only a word, as their pursuers will stop at nothing to bring Fletch and Neil back—dead or alive. Views: 33
