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The Walking Dead
The Vows of Silence (Paperback)
A gunman is terrorizing young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton. What—if anything— links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with the rifle the same as the killer with the handgun?
With the complexity and character study that earned raves for The Pure in Heart and the relentless pacing and plot twists of The Various Haunts of Men, The Vows of Silence is truly the work of a writer at the top of her form.
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The Vows of Silence
Vicious Circle
The Various Haunts of Men (Paperback)
The Various Haunts of Men
The Unknown Soldier (Paperback)
The Unknown Soldier
A Traitor's Kiss (Paperback)
A Traitor's Kiss
The Tears of Autumn (Paperback)
The Tears of Autumn
Shelley's Heart (Paperback)
From this crisis, master storyteller Charles McCarry, author of such classic thrillers as The Tears of Autumn and The Last Supper weaves a masterpiece of political intrigue. Shelley’s Heart is so gripping in its realism and so striking in its foresight that McCarry’s devoted readers may view this tale of love, murder, betrayal, and life-or-death struggles for the political soul of America as an act of prophecy.
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Shelley's Heart
Secret Lovers
The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte (Paperback)
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The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte
Second Sight (Paperback)
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Second Sight
Saints of New York
As the homicides continue--and a disturbing pattern emerges--Frank tries desperately to make sense of the deaths, while battling his own demons. Trying to live up to the reputation of his father—a legendary NYPD Detective and one of the original “Saints of New York”--the crew who worked with the authorities to rid New York of the final vestiges of Mafia control in the 1980s--Parrish struggles with the broken pieces of his own life. But, as the murder rate escalates, he must discover the truth before there are further innocent victims.
Dark and intense, Saints of New York is a novel of corruption and redemption, of the relentless persistence required to find the truth, and of one man’s search for meaning amidst the ghosts of his own conscience.
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The Risk of Darkness
A Quiet Belief in Angels (Paperback)
A Quiet Belief in Angels
Private Midnight
The Once and Future Spy
Old Boys
Noir
Murder in Montparnasse: (Paperback)
Murder in Montparnasse:
Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell (Paperback)
Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell
Moscow Racetrack
The Miernik Dossier (Paperback)
The Miernik Dossier
The Man in the Picture
Lookout Cartridge
Lethal Injection
Legends
The Last Supper (Paperback)
Perhaps the most richly complex of McCarry s renowned Paul Christopher novels, The Last Supper is an epic recreation of the history of an organization ensnared by a culture of conspiracy, deceit, and senseless violence
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Perhaps the most richly complex of McCarry s renowned Paul Christopher novels, The Last Supper is an epic recreation of the history of an organization ensnared by a culture of conspiracy, deceit, and senseless violence
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The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
Knife Music
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Hour of the Cat
Hot Shot
Honey West: This Girl for Hire
Honey West: Kiss for A Killer
Getting Away with Murder (Paperback)
From Away
Exquisite Corpse
Robert Irwin's surrealistic novel is back in print: "A picaresque nightmare, a sinister shell game, an addled odyssey along the graying edges of the psyche-Exquisite Corpse is all of these things." (San Francisco Chronicle)
Set in London, Paris, and Munich in the 1940s and 1950s, Exquisite Corpse is, like Irwin's cult classic, The Arabian Nightmare, a novel about the strange and ever-morphing powers of the imagination. At once a love story, a mystery, and an investigation into the ideas of absurdist art, "Irwin's novel about English surrealism is funny and profound and hugely satisfying." (A. S. Byatt, Sunday Times) This utterly captivating book is finally back in as part of Overlook's plan to bring Robert Irwin back into the literary limelight that he so much deserves.
Caspar, the narrator of Exquisite Corpse, is one of a strange bunch of friends known as the Serapion Brotherhood a group of artists, painters, and writers who are experimenting, expanding, and developing the then nascent concept of surrealism. While the real-life figures Andr Breton, Salvador Dali, and Henry Moore-among others-move in and out of the narrative, Caspar details his and his friends' investigations into sex, surrealism, hypnagogic imagery, waxworks, mesmerism, and madness. But when Caspar meets Caroline a beautiful and na ve young typist he is completely entranced. Strangely, she seems to fit in extremely well with the surrealists. Is all as it seems Where does she disappear to Caspar, himself, is unsure what is real and his therapist is no help at all but the tale he has woven is, as Ian Critchley wrote in the Sunday Times, "Superb!"
"An off-beat, brisk, and darkly comic novel. Robert Irwin is a deft writer with a fine ironic touch his novel, in which fiction and reality are woven unobtrusively together, is consistently clever and inventive." The New York Times
"A strange and elegant novel." The Boston Globe
"An immensely inventive and deceptive emotional novel." Village Voice
"Robert Irwin is a master of the surreal imagination " The Sunday Times
Robert Irwin studied Modern History at Oxford and taught Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews. In addition to Exquisite Corpse, he has written five other novels-including the classic The Arabian Nightmare-and is the editor of Night and Horses and the Desert: An Anthology of Classic Arabic Literature.
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Dragon's Eye
The Distance from Here
A dark and provocative new play by award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director Neil LaBute.
No American playwright has written more compellingly about the subtle ways in which people inflict pain on each other than Neil LaBute. His films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors both gained critical renown for their biting satire and caustic wit. Now, with The Distance from Here, he has written his most riveting play yet, an intense look at the dark side of American suburbia.
With little to occupy their time other than finding a decent place to hang out-the zoo, the mall, the school parking lot-Darrell and Tim are two American teenagers who lack any direction or purpose in their lives. When Darrell's suspicion about the faithlessness of his girlfriend is confirmed and Tim comes to her defense, there is nothing to brake their momentum as all three speed toward disaster.
"LaBute, in his most ambitious and best play to date, gets inside the emptiness of American culture, the Masquerade and the evil of neglect. The Distance from Here, it seems to me, is a new title to be added to the short list of important contemporary plays." John Lahr, The New Yorker
"LaBute's skill, and the shortness of the scenes, are compelling [his] excellent writing generates an exact depiction of empty, soulless, thoughtless lives." Hal Jensen, Times Literary Supplement
Neil LaBute's first film, In the Company of Men received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best feature and the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival. He has also written and directed Your Friends and Neighbors and the forthcoming The Shape of Things, and directed Nurse Betty and the soon to be released Possession. His other plays include Bash (available from Overlook), Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, Sangunarians and Sycophants, Rounder, and Ravages.
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The Debriefing
Dead and Buried (Paperback)
Dead and Buried
Dark Companion (Paperback)
Banerjhee Rolf, a bright, levelheaded Indian-American scientist, is content to spend his days with his wife, tending his garden and studying his beloved astronomy. When Rolf ’s relationship with his seedy, drug-dealing neighbor, Toby Pride, and Pride’s stoner girlfriend takes a weird turn, Rolf’s placid world is shattered and he becomes a fugitive from justice. Crime, cosmology, politics, philosophy, physics and more enter into this cautionary tale, which climaxes with the suddenness of a cobra strike and then delivers a denouement that’s both stunning and absolutely perfect.
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The Damned Don't Die
The Cooperman Variations
A new caper starring Benny Cooperman, the lovable and intrepid sleuth that Donald Westlake says is "a lot of fun to hang out with".
Benny Cooperman is a detective with flair, known and loved as the witty, egg salad-loving, Jewish gentleman sleuth he is the world over. This kinder, gentler detective funny, smart and squeamish about violence is the creation of master of the genre Howard Engel, whose readers stretch now to thirteen countries, from his native Canada to Japan, England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark and the US.
This time around, a murder and a beautiful woman are the key elements that get Benny embroiled in the scandalous world of television broadcasting. It all starts when Benny, mulling over the lack of stimulating work and the absence of his girlfriend, is visited by a woman from his past. Vanessa Moss, a former high school beauty who has grown up to become Head of Entertainment at a television network, asks Benny to protect her. A friend was murdered while at her house and Vanessa fears she was the target. In Toronto, Benny poses as Vanessa's executive assistant amidst a tangle of competing executives, backbiting lawyers, arrogant producers, and hopeful hangers-on. As Benny tries to protect his client, give the local cops a helping hand, and avoid making enemies of his colleagues, he quickly discovers that taking care of Vanessa is a seductive but risky business.
"Mr. Engel is a born writer, a natural stylist This is a writer who can bring a character to life in a few lines." Ruth Rendell
"Engel can turn a phrase as neatly as Chandler." Julian Symons
"The Cooperman novels are heavy on full-bodied characters, sharp dialogue, and rich humor. Benny just plain charms the socks off anyone he meets." Booklist
Howard Engel is the winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction, and creator of the acclaimed Benny Cooperman mystery series as well as Murder in Montparnasse, a departure from the series. He is a founding member of the Crime Writer's Association of Canada, where his private eye has been described as a cherished national institution. He lives in Toronto.
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The Collaborator
She is an Italian accountancy student in London. But the prime reason Immacolata Borelli came to Britain was to look after her gangster brother. Mario Castrolami is a senior Carabinieri investigator, his career dedicated to destroying the corruption and violence of clans such as Immacolata’s family.
When Immacolata calls from London to say she is prepared to collaborate with justice, he knows she is setting in motion a terrifying series of events.
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Christopher's Ghosts (Paperback)
Christopher's Ghosts
The Better Angels
Bedlam
The Anniversary Man
After You with the Pistol
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