A Dancer in the Dust

“Edgar Award winner Thomas Cook has a string of beautifully written and elegantly plotted thrillers to his name. A Dancer in the Dust is one of his best ever. This…

Aquarium

Widely acclaimed around the world, David Vann is “an artist” (New York Times), “a truly great writer” (Irish Sunday Independent), “one of the best writers of his generation” (Le Figaro)—and,…

Country Dark

Chris Offutt’s long-awaited return to fiction after nearly two decades, Country Dark is a fierce noir-inflected novel about a good man pushed by circumstance into crime….

Carlito’s Way

Published to coincide with a major motion picture release based on Edwin Torres’s classic gangster novel, which Newsweek calls “exhilarating . . . boils with raw energy”…

Dogleg Madness

“The thrill of the first tee shot of the U.S. Open, the agony of the shank on the muni course–they’re all here in Mike Bryan’s Dogleg Madness, an account of…

Bankei Zen

Friends Helping Friends

An exhilarating thriller about a white nationalist group –and the man taking them down from the inside – written with critically acclaimed author Patrick Hoffman’s “crisp pace and superb timing”…

By its Cover

Commissario Guido Brunetti must question his own assumptions about culture, virtue, and class in order to solve a shocking case of rare book theft from a Venetian library.

The Best of It

“Melancholy lucidity is Ryan’s greatest gift, and it can be heard in all her most successful poems. But her most startling discovery is that melancholy, with its tendency to brood…

Being There

“A tantalizing knuckleball of a book delivered with perfectly timed satirical hops and metaphysical flutters.” –Time…