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Is someone systematically killing the judges of the B.C. bar? At least one has been, murdered and several have disappeared. Arthur Beauchamp returns from retirement once again to take on the case, this time defending his former nemesis, backwoods poet Cudworth Brown, and tracking down a mystery novel that Brown's unreliable former lawyer has been, writing, all this just as his own wife, Margaret, has announced her candidacy for the Green Party in...

When Liana Dector, a woman who is possibly a cold-blooded killer wanted by the police, storms into his favorite Boston tavern demanding his help, George Foss, unable to say "no" to his first love, is drawn into a world of murder, betrayal, and secrets from which there is no escape.

Jamie Conklin, a boy born with an unnatural ability to see and learn things no one else can, is enlisted to help an NYPD detective pursue a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave. Sometimes growing up means facing your demons. The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no...

"The Ecuadorian Andes is one of the few places on earth where you can get a sunburn and freeze to death at the same time." When New York City PI Filomena Buscarsela takes her teenaged daughter, Antonia, to see their extended family in Ecuador, it's more than a homecoming. Filomena hasn't been back in years, and the trip brings back memories of her previous life as a revolutionary. Before she's even had time to adjust to her new surroundings, a...

Independently wealthy Gonzalez "Gonzo" Phipps believes someone is out to kill him. And he wants to hire Stern Talbot to put a stop to it. Of course, Stern is always hungry for a new client. But at what cost? Something about the diminutive Mr. Phipps seems a little off-kilter, and Stern can't quite figure it out. Is the guy affiliated with the mob? Is he in trouble with them? But his greatest fear seems to be police involvement, yet he loudly...

Douglas Pike is no longer the murderous hustler he was in his youth, but reforming hasn't made him much kinder. He's just living out his life in his Appalachian hometown, working odd jobs with his partner, Rory, hemming in his demons the best he can. And, his best seems just good enough until his estranged daughter overdoses and he takes in his twelve-year-old granddaughter, Wendy. Just as the two are beginning to forge a relationship, Derrick Kreiger,...

From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. In Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow, David Goodway seeks to recover and revitalize that indigenous anarchist tradition. This book succeeds as simultaneously a cultural history of left-libertarian thought in Britain and a demonstration of the applicability of that history to current politics....

Colin, a photographer, is working in Cornwall when he meets Morveren and finds himself inexplicably drawn towards her and she to him. Their fates intertwine with events that took place during the reign of Queen Mary 1st, also known as Bloody Mary. As the story unfolds, the link between the past and present becomes apparent, the past dictates the future of Colin's and Morveren's relationship, from which there is no escaping.

A Moment of Doubt is at turns hilarious, thrilling, and obscene. Jim Nisbet's novella is ripped from the zeitgeist of the '80s, and set in a sex-drenched San Francisco, where the computer becomes the protagonist's co-conspirator and both writer and machine seem to threaten the written word itself. The City as whore provides a backdrop oozing with drugs, poets and danger. Nisbet has written a madcap meditation on the angst of a writer caught in a...

Este es un relato crudo, realista, objetivo y sin ninguna clase de sensacionalismos, de un gamberro que viola a una pequeña niña de seis años, tras lo cual, este delincuente pasa a vivir el resto de su vida en las peligrosas cárceles uruguayas, y termina sus días internado en un hospital psiquiátrico. El hecho de que el autor de esta novela, Ernesto Thomas González (1968), le haya puesto su propio nombre a este personaje motivó una verdadera...