Crime & mystery

Stark

Stark

Edward Bunker

Oceanview, Los Angeles, 1962. Stark is a rat and a con-artist. Nobody’s friend. The kind of guy Eddie Bunker met in San Quentin. Stark thinks he can beat the suckers and outsmart the cops. When a big score comes his way, he’s lucky to escape with his life. Four others are not so lucky….

Dog Eat Dog

Dog Eat Dog

Edward Bunker

Dog Eat Dog is the tale of three unremorseful criminals with two felony convictions apiece and no more chances….

The Cocaine Chronicles

The Cocaine Chronicles

Gary Phillips

This is the best fiction anthology of cocaine-themed tales to blow through in years, featuring ALL NEW stories from Susan Straight, Lee Child, Jerry Stahl, Ken Bruen, Laura Lippman, Bill Moody, Nina Revoyr, and many more….

The Speed Chronicles

The Speed Chronicles

Joseph Mattson

The first contemporary collection of all new literary short fiction on the drug from an array of today’s most compelling and respected authors, including James Franco, Sherman Alexie, William T. Vollmann, Megan Abbott, Jerry Stahl, Beth Lisick, Jess Walter, Scott Phillips and many more…

Ghost of a Flea

Ghost of a Flea

James Sallis

‘Somewhere, among the wastes of the world, is the key that will bring us back, restore us to our Earth and to our freedom,’ Pynchon wrote in Gravity’s Rainbow. Never has a man’s search among those wastes, for that freedom, been better represented than in this stunning conclusion to the Lew Griffin cycle….

Moth

Moth

James Sallis

One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin’s dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, La Verne Adams is dead – and her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers… leaving behind a crack-addicted infant and a mystery….

Black Hornet

Black Hornet

James Sallis

In a time of anger, activism, and bitter racial tensions, a sniper has appeared to heat up an already sweltering New Orleans summer – by tearing up innocent people like paper targets. The shooter’s sixth fatality is cut down while she is walking at Lew Griffin’s side….

Driven

Driven

James Sallis

Seven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who double-crossed him. He has left the old life, become Paul West and founded a successful business back in Phoenix….

Cripple Creek

Cripple Creek

James Sallis

Ex-policeman, ex-con, former therapist, Turner is Deputy Sheriff in a small town within driving distance of Memphis, Tennessee, to which he had migrated in hopes of escaping his past. His life is mending as he and Val Bjorn grow closer. And then a young man, arrested on a routine traffic stop with more than $200,000 in his trunk, is…

Drive

Drive

James Sallis

‘Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there’d be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment. And the moment includes this blood lapping…

Eye of the Cricket

Eye of the Cricket

James Sallis

Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. And he is a man subject to all of the frailties to which we are heir. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son…and himself in the process….

Bluebottle

Bluebottle

James Sallis

As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he has just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes to, Griffin discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who was the sniper?…