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Making a hit-man-turned-medical-intern a sympathetic figure would be a tall order for most authors, but first-time novelist Bazell does just that in this breezy and darkly comic suspense novel. …More

From the acclaimed author of "Selling Ben Cheever" comes a searing black comedy about nannies and parents, publishing and prejudice, and the not-so-gentle art of ambition. …More

In this masterful debut, Martin Clark proves to be the heir apparent of great Southern raconteurs and the envy of more seasoned novelists as he takes us on a frantic tour of the modern south. Hung over, beaten by the unforgiving sun, bitter at his estranged wife, and dreading the day's docket of petty criminal cases, Judge Evers Wheeling is in need of "something on the morning he's accosted by Ruth Esther English. . …More

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In this stylish literary page-turner, a writer is forced to play detective when a serial killer hires him to tell his story--and three women turn up dead. …More

"Road Dogs" is Leonard at his best--with his trademark tight plotting and pitch-perfect dialogue--and readers are sure to love seeing Cundo Rey, Jack Foley, and Dawn Navarro back in action and working together . . . or are they? …More

In "Lying with the Dead," the family matriarch calls home her three children for a final, bedside reunion. Once the family is assembled in the childhood home, the pieces of a somber puzzle come together. …More

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A funny and haunting new novel from "one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation" ("Los Angeles Times"). 256 pp. 5,000 print. …More

Soon to be a major motion picture from producer John Calley and Universal Pictures, "The Swap" is a superbly plotted black comedy that will amuse anyone who has ever wondered what could have been. …More

Grace Hawkes has not spoken to her previously tight-knit family since her mother's sudden death five years ago. After her estranged father suffers a stroke, she is forced to reunite with those she's abandoned--and remember what a family is, even after all these years. …More

The author of the award-winning "Blue Angel" now offers the trenchant, bitingly funny adventures of a Haitian au pair in an eccentric upper-class Hudson Valley household. …More

A darkly funny and surprisingly tender debut novel about two brothers, one of whom refuses to leave his bed on his 25th birthday. …More