Right Behind You
“Devilishly clever twists propel Gardner’s tale.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Be My Wolff
"Jewel-like bits of fable and fact are interwoven with modern-day conversations . . . as the tale of the Wolff family unfolds and reaches back into history in adroit and surprising ways." —Library Journal
Dishing Up Death
Kitty Karlyle is a young gourmet pet chef. She does not prepare meals for the rich and famous. She prepares meals for the pampered pets of the rich and famous. Kitty lives in L.A. A graduate of a top culinary arts school, Kitty's passion for food and pets has led her to create her own […]
The Fifth Petal
Dark and suspenseful, Barry’s well-constructed tale is filled with traps and red herrings as the truth is slowly revealed and Salem is forced to confront its sordid past.” —Publishers Weekly
Lights, Camera, Murder!
Pet chef Kitty serves gourmet meals to pampered canines, cats, birds, snakes (ugh), Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs and most any other pet belonging to her wealthy and quirky L.A. clientele. This is a town where pets have their own psychologists, psychics and masseuses, so why shouldn’t they have their own chefs, right? Kitty finds herself somewhat […]
Old Bones
A young couple discover human remains buried in the garden of their new house: could this be the resting place of 14-year-old Amanda Knight, who disappeared from the same garden two decades before, and was never seen again? The problem comes almost as a relief to DCI Slider, still suffering from the fallout of his […]
The Patriots
“The Patriots is a historical romance in the old style: multigenerational, multi-narrative, intercontinental, laden with back stories and historical research, moving between scrupulous detail and sweeping panoramas, the first-person voice and a kaleidoscopic third, melodrama and satire, Cleveland in 1933 and Moscow in 2008. It contains a wartime romance, a gulag redemption story, a kleptocratic […]
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“Extraordinary…hilarious…Elegantly written, Rooney creates a glorious paean to a distant literary life and time¯and an unabashed celebration of human connections that bridge past and future. ¯Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed)
Kill the Father
“Outstanding…[an] unrelenting, adrenaline-fueled novel, with a final twist serving as a setup for a sequel. Don’t be surprised if Kill the Father becomes the next Big Thing in international crime fiction.” —Booklist (Starred Review)
Huck Out West
“Huck Out West [is] the latest to emerge from this wild genius’s half-century outpouring of postmodernist books, stories, novellas and plays….Under Coover’s hell-hot pen….this pulsating anti-epic….establishes Huck in exactly the place Twain himself planned to take him.” (Ron Powers – The New York Times Book Review)