This award-winning anthology of original crime fiction exploring Brooklyn's many enclaves features new stories by Pete Hamill, Maggie Estep and others.New York's punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with this collection of stories from some of today's best writers. Brooklyn Noir moves from Coney Island to Bedford-Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge to Red Hook to Bushwick to Sheepshead Bay to Park Slope and far deeper, into the heart of Brooklyn's historical ...

Homer Fink could speak Latin and Greek or chart the orbit of the planet Jupiter, but when it came to tying his shoelaces or knotting his tie Homer was helpless.The Adventures of Homer Fink is a story of youth's first awareness of power and philosophy and love. It is peopled with characters as real as your next-door neighbors and yet uniquely extraordinary. Above all, this is a tale full of humor and affection and the wonder of growing up.

"Sidney Offit has devised a marvelous mirror of his unique personality as well as a one of a kind tour of the New York literary world in the last half century. Anyone even faintly interested in books will find it impossible to put down."---Thomas Fleming, bestselling author of Liberty! The American RevolutionSidney Offit's charming memoir of a writer's life ingeniously reflects some of the greatest (and most infamous) literary, political, and sports personalities of our cen...

Reimagining America Through the Blues, Jazz, and the Cultural Vision of Albert Murray.This collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and letters and as an American cultural pioneer.Born in Nokomis, Alabama, and raised ...

The diagnosis buried her... and the truth with it.When Vicky Sloane loses her unborn child in late pregnancy, the grief is shattering, but nothing prepares her husband, Al, for what comes next. In the sterile confines of a Sydney hospital, Vicky suffers a sudden, inexplicable psychotic break: speaking in tongues, lashing out, and hurling accusations in languages she has never spoken. What begins as a tragic obstetric case spirals into a medical mystery tha...

When reporter Martha Strangeways is summoned to investigate the discovery of body parts on a remote railway track, she's drawn into a strange case, as her own past comes back to haunt her … The atmospheric, chilling series continues…'An easy book to while away a few hours with … Strong on characterisation, atmosphere and storytelling, it's a novel that sprints along with justifiable confidence' Herald`A taut tale of murder and muti...

A California D.A. handles a case of a baby lost and another found in this classic hard-boiled mystery by the author of the Perry Mason series."The bestselling author of the century . . . a master storyteller." — The New York TimesA late-night hit-and-run accident claims an infant's life on a steep mountain road outside Madison City. What puzzles District Attorney Doug Selby is that the other car was stolen, driven out of town and b...

From a British mystery author "in a class by himself among detective story writers," eighteen classic crime stories, perfect for astute armchair detectives ( The Times Literary Supplement).Scandal is at stake for London's fashionable society when Edwardian playwright Richard Dangerfield's sordid diary falls into the hands of a blackmailer. Though Dangerfield is long dead, those who consorted with him are all very much alive and at the respectable old age wh...

Some secrets destroy. Some lies kill. Some girls refuse to stay silent.Asha’s perfect life is destroyed the day her parents die under suspicious circumstances. Thrust into a family she never knew and hunted by ruthless enemies across continents, she quickly learns that trust can be deadly.Thrown into a world of lies, betrayal, and danger from her own family, she has to fight to survive. Good friends vanish. Strangers lie. Enemies stalk her across c...

Discover the first in a BRAND-NEW series of post-WW1 mysteries, from international bestselling author Michael Ridpath. An absolute must-read for fans of Robert Harris, Alan Furst and Robert Goddard.'The perfect marriage of thriller and whodunit' Simon BrettIn a city rebuilding from war, truth can be the most dangerous weapon of all.Berlin, 1930.Historian Archie Laverick, scarred mentally and phy...

When detective-in-training Sigurdís interrupts her studies in the US to return to Iceland, after discovering that the investigation into her abusive father's death has been dropped, she's plunged into a completely new case when a controversial TV personality is murdered during the Reykjavík Marathon.'[A] hugely satisfying novel' The Sunday Times'A new voice in Icelandic crime fiction … plays with the reader's expectations with cool...

Get ALL FIVE dark, caustically funny, shocking thrillers in Simone Buchholz's international, bestselling Chastity Rileyseries in one GREAT-VALUE Box Set!Award-winning German noir – an addictive, breathtakingly original detective series. State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her team investigate a series of dark crimes in Hamburg. From mafia networks and kidnappings to arson attacks and hostage situations, chain-smoking Chastity is drawn into some of the city'...