One of America's most beloved storytellers, Father Andrew Greeley returns with an explosive novel about the corrosive political culture tearing apart America--and one man's family.Tommy Moran, an Irish Catholic kid from the West Side of Chicago, fights for the underprivileged on the floor of the United States Senate. Swearing off negative attack ads, Moran is determined to restore civility and compassion to American politics. But his opponents don't share his scruples. Almost from the beginning, Tommy and his family find themselves besieged by vicious personal attacks, false rumors . . . and attempts at assassination!As a freshman senator, Tommy must also cope with the temptations--both political and carnal--regularly thrown his way. The job takes its toll on him, but at least he has the support and love of his devoted wife, a daughter of Chicago's raucous O'Malley family.But the opposition that hits home the hardest comes from an unlikely source: his own... Views: 49
A romantic seven-day cruise is the perfect start to bakery owner Hannah Swensen's marriage. However, with a murder mystery heating up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, it seems the newlywed's homecoming won't be as sweet as she anticipated . . . After an extravagant honeymoon, Hannah's eager to settle down in Lake Eden and turn domestic daydreams into reality. But when her mother's neighbor is discovered murdered in the condo downstairs, reality becomes a nightmarish investigation. Victoria Bascomb, once a renowned stage actress, was active in the theater community during her brief appearance in town . . . and made throngs of enemies along the way. Did a random intruder murder the woman as police claim, or was a deadlier scheme at play? As Hannah peels through countless suspects and some new troubles of her own, solving this crime—and living to tell about it—might prove trickier than mixing up the ultimate banana cream pie . . .INDULGE IN JOANNE... Views: 49
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Winner of the 2009 International Prize for Noir Fiction, awarded by RBA. Berlin, 1934: The Nazis have secured the 1936 Olympics. Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, have connived to soft pedal Nazi anti Semitism and convince America to participate. Bernie Gunther, a house detective at an upscale Berlin hotel, is swept into this world of international corruption and dangerous double dealing. Havana, 1954: the American Mafia is quickly gaining a stranglehold on the city's exploding gaming and prostitution industries. Bernie has now resurfaced in Cuba with a new life of relative peace. But he discovers that he truly cannot outrun the burden of his past: He soon collides with a vicious killer from his Berlin days, who is mysteriously murdered not long afterward, and an old lover, who may be the murderer. If the Dead Rise Not has twisted intrigue, tight plot, a hang by your thumbs ending. Spanish Description: Ganadora del Premio Internacional de Novela Negra RBA 2009. Berlin, 1934: Los nazis han logrado asegurar que los juegos olimpicos de 1936 se celebren en la ciudad pero enfrentan resistencia del exterior. Hitler y Avery Brundage, jefe del comite olimpico de los Estados Unidos, se confabulan para suavizar el antisemitismo nazi y convencer a los americanos a participar en los juegos. Bernie Gunther, el detective de planta de un hotel de lujo en Berlin, se ve arrastrado a este mundo de corrupcion y doble juego, atrapado en una guerra entre facciones del aparato nazi. Habana, 1954: Batista, apoyado por la CIA, toma el poder. Castro se encuentra tras las rejas y la mafia americana esta a un punto de asumir el control total de las lucrativas industrias de la prostitucion y los casinos. Bernie, quien ha sido expulsado sin ceremonia alguna de Buenos Aires, reaparece en Cuba para comenzar una vida nueva, regida por la rutina y la paz, pero descubre que no puede dejar atras su pasado. Estando en Cuba se topa con un asesino despiadado de sus dias en Berlin, a quien encuentran despues misteriosamente asesinado, y a una vieja amante, quien podria ser la asesina. Si los muertos no resucitan tiene todos los elementos que los admiradores de Philip Kerr esperan: intriga, una trama torcida y cerrada, liÂneas ingeniosas y un final tenso, pero aun mas significativo, un Bernie Gunther mas rico y sabio. Views: 49
From the Author's Note:A LOT of my fiction deals with sexual matters, usually of a grim and distasteful sort, but this and another story, titled “Layover,” represent my sole foray into humorous erotica. The opportunity came about through a small press publisher which was kicking off an erotica series designed for married or otherwise committed/monogamous couples. This seemed like a good and fun idea to me, and I enjoyed writing them. So in many ways, this story and the other one represent some of my most light-hearted fiction.“Candy in the Sack” also represents the most optimistic treatment of a particular obsession of mine, which appears elsewhere to rather darker effect in my stories “Straight Shot” and “Riding Bitch.” Of course, the degradation Hallowe’en, from deep-rooted and marginally illicit folk holiday to tacky commercial marketing opportunity, is a subject covered masterfully by Ray Bradbury, a writer much admired by myself and others. So if readers were to be so kind as to consider this and my other Hallowe’en stories as at least a partial tribute to him, I don’t think they would be far off the mark. Views: 49
The first instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth crime series, from the prize-winning author of the Richard and Judy Book Club novel, The American Boy. Workmen in the small market town of Lydmouth are demolishing an old cottage. A sledgehammer smashes into what looks like a solid wall. Instead, layers of wallpaper conceal the door of a locked cupboard which holds a box - and in the box is the skeleton of a young baby. Items within the box suggest that the baby was entombed early in the nineteenth century, but when another man is also found dead, the evidence suggests that the baby's death is more recent than it seems and that a killer is on the loose. Journalist Jill Francis, newly arrived from London, has her first assignment. Views: 49
From Edgar Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Andrew Klavan, a supernatural thriller about a good cop in the grips of an evil curse. In the tradition of Dexter and The Shield, the first in a riveting trilogy about a crime-fighter on a quest to control the beast within.Zach Adams is one of the best detectives in the country. Nicknamed Cowboy, he's a soft-spoken homicide detective from Houston known for his integrity and courage under fire. He serves on a federal task force that has a single mission: to hunt down Dominic Abend, a European gangster who has taken over the American underworld.After a brutal murder gives them a lead, Zach and his tough guy NYPD partner Martin Goulart feel like they're finally on Abend's trail. But things get complicated—and very, very weird. Goulart's on-the-job enemies are accusing him of corruption. And Zach is beginning to suspect that Abend's evil goes beyond crime—perhaps to the edge of... Views: 49
