Summary: Through four vignettes, each occurring in a different decade and a different era of his life, Private Investigator Lew Griffin searches New Orleans for meaning, connection, understanding, and lost souls. The Long-Legged Fly contains the complexity of an ancient myth, the depth of a philosophical treatise, the heart of the best of American literature, and the […]
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Summary A now sober ex-cop Matthew Scudder looks back on a darker time a few years off the job when he drank and did “favors” for friends who paid him for his trouble. When three separate jobs come together over several weeks one summer, a pattern emerges that forces Scudder to look inward, make hard
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Summary: Hugh Denismore, a privileged, young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, feels uneasy when he sees a group of redneck teenagers. Near the California-Arizona border, he reluctantly picks up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway, a girl he had seen with the group of teenagers. When she is
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Summary: Harlem detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson investigate the murder of Ulysses Galen. When Galen was murdered during a barfight, the murderer fled while chaos ensued. A drunk fired a few rounds into a crowd, and a street gang calling themselves the Real Cool Moslems (teenagers in robes and fake beards) caused
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Literary Titan: Indy Perro – Author Interview Your book Central City is a noir mystery with a gangster helping a detective solve a case after a gang war erupts in this fictional Midwestern city. In the past, the detective put this gangster in prison. Yet they work together to stop a serial killer. It’s a unique match-up. Where did
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Writer, freelance journalist, and modern storyteller. My name is Sarah Nour and I’m a writer. I’ve been a freelance journalist for over a decade now, writing articles for local publications. I currently write articles about film history on HubPages. I’ve also written poems and short stories that have gotten published, which you can find on
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Summary: In The Mad and The Bad, Michael Hartog obtained a fortune after the death of his brother in an accident. The fortune, however, came with Peter, Hartog’s orphaned nephew. Hartog hires Julie from an insane asylum to watch his nephew, and Hartog hires Thompson, a gunman with a serious ulcer to kill Julie and
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Kori, first of her name, Mother of Cats and Keeper of Plants, is a business owner, amateur writer, book nerd, and lover of all things occult and mystical. Kori grew up in small-town Alabama, not far from Jordan! After a few odd jobs, she began running a small, portable business with her boyfriend before they moved
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Summary: Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisis, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. A cop named Foley is leaning on Eddie for information, and Eddie needs to sell someone out to avoid going back to prison. Nobody knows who’s a friend and who’s a snitch in this richly plotted book that
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Writer & Storyteller Joseph has lived a full life, worked many an odd job, and found great success as a writer, storyteller, and speaker. A 2014 recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts: Creation Grant for Aboriginal Peoples Writers and Storytellers for his manuscript “Woodland Creetures” and a graduate of Simon Fraser University’s The
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