Meet Donald «Lucky» Gibson, an African-America detective. He was considered one of the best, until he joined his last unit. He quickly became corrupted. Instead of catching criminals, these cops were acting like one. They were labeled legal thugs with guns. After years of abusing his badge which led to an out of control coke habit, losing his family and falling in love with a young runaway prostitute. Lucky had enough. One night after an innocent Blackman was killed by his white partners, he...
Fashion sleuth Haley Randolph is back for another murderous romp with the stylish set at Holt's Department Store. . .When Haley arrives at the Holt employee luncheon and fashion show, she spies a sick server hiding in a back room. Deciding to help out, Haley grabs a uniform. The catered array of food and personalized fruit bouquets from Edible Elegance is a hit until top fashion model Claudia Gray is found dead in the ladies room. Now, it's going to take more than a Chanel sample sale...
The end is near. Detective Danielle DeMarco is challenged with her most intense case yet, and along with it, she inherits a host of personal problems. When a sorcerer is found dead in The Emporium, a spell shop brimming with magical potions, elixirs, and tinctures, Dani and her new tagalong, Primrose, are on the case. However, work turns personal when someone close to Dani is poisoned. To make matters worse, another of Detective DeMarco's closest friends vanishes, her boyfriend is hiding...
A love story unfolds and fractures around the destruction of Indigenous families and the trauma of missing and murdered Indigenous women Book focuses on missing and murdered Native women, issues of identity and marginalization, and the Sixties Scoop, now the centre of a major class-action lawsuit Author is the former lieutenant governor of Ontario, a member of the Chippewas of Rama First Nation, and is a frequent commentator on Native affairs Author will promote the book in his program of public...
"Dennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys…[Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has…left people feeling crushed."–New York Times, on Boston Noir"The contributor list is delightfully quirky…The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class–as seen terrifyingly in Andre...
Literary crime novel populated by French Surrealist authors of the twenties; characters include imagined versions of André Breton, Georges Bataille, Antonin Artaud, Guillaume Apollinaire (changed to be an old woman), Robert Desnos, Louis Aragon (changed to be a young woman with cool hair), Jacques Prevert and Michel Simon.Pillow is a twist on the anti-hero that looms so large in the cultural imagination right now (Tao Lin's novels, HBO series including Breaking Bad and The Knick). In fact,...
The recent popularity of Scandinavian crime fiction/so-called «Nordic Noir» (e.g., Jo Nesbo) among North American audiencesThat said, it's not your typical whodunnit: there is a crime, and an investigation, but it's equally about the female protagonist's reckoning with grief and lossLonglisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2014) and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2013)Aitken translated Dorthe Nors's acclaimed short story collection Karate Chop...
T. Greenwood, acclaimed author of Two Rivers and The Hungry Season, crafts a moving, lyrical story of loss, atonement, and promises kept. One November morning, Ben Bailey walks out of his Flagstaff, Arizona, home to retrieve the paper. Instead, he finds Ricky Begay, a young Navajo man, beaten and dying in the newly fallen snow. Unable to forget the incident, especially once he meets Ricky's sister, Shadi, Ben begins to question everything, from his job as a part-time history professor...
Finally settling down with his hunky cop boyfriend, former callboy Kevin Connor is giving up the «oldest profession» for a new career: producing his mom's TV talk show, «Sophie's Voice.» But when their latest guest–gay porn sensation Brent Havens–ends up floating in the East River after vowing to blow the lid off the adult film industry, Kevin returns to the world of high-stakes sex to find out: Who killed the twink who had everything?Was it the X-rated director who exploited his...
The Guardian of Detritus is about a failed rock musician and disgraced reporter working in pubic relations in Detroit. On the far side of middle age and the brink of divorce, Will Harkanen sees an obituary for an old friend and decides to quit his job and pursue the dreams of his youth. Hustling between the icons of Detroit's glorious past and the wreckage of its gritty present, Will begins unraveling a mess of blackmail and corruption that may have led to his friend's death. As...