The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospital, it was a month later, he was missing an eye, and his father was dead. Then things started to get b…
When seasoned con man Joe Marlin accidentally steals a suitcase full of heroin, he contemplates murdering the man he stole it from, with the help of the man's wife who desperately wants to see her hus…
Miranda Sugarman was supposed to be in the Midwest, working as an eye doctor. So how did she wind up shot to death on the roof of New York s seediest strip club? It s up to detective John Blake to unc…
Drowning his sorrows of the past in cheap alcohol, former detective-turned-Bowery bum Matt Cordell finds himself back on the job when he is asked to investigate a double murder involving an old enemy.…
Detective Donald Lam is hired by the last man to see the girlfriend of a notorious gangster alive, a case that leads Donald to a lucrative mining scam, an illegal casino, and a double homicide. Reprin…
In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, whe…
Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of reg…
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. To…
A novel set among the hustlers of southside Chicago tells the story of an extraordinary con artist called "White Folks," a light-haired, blue-eyed, white-skinned black man.
