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My Mother’s House

Francesca Momplaisir

"The house screamed, “Fire!” from every orifice."


The New Girl

Harriet Walker

"A world without children is a world with no future."


Shooting Down Heaven

Jorge Franco

"Three days after Escobar’s death, we gathered around the table again."


Kill the King

Sandrone Dazieri

"Colomba followed Lupo, entering the center of Montenigro for the first time since she’d been a child."


Westside Saints

W.M. Akers

"On a night of hard frost, in the ruins of a burnt church, I found a body in the snow."


Strong from the Heart

Jon Land

"As the famed song played in the single bud still wedged inside an ear, Tom Santiago found himself baking beneath a sun that had risen hours ago, long before his postal rounds brought him to the town of Camino Pass."


Between Two Evils

Eva Dolan

"Ferreira was sitting on the bonnet of his car, rolling a cigarette, when Zigic emerged from number 4, and it took him a few minutes further to extricate himself from Ainsworth’s neighbour and his accomplice of a cat, which kept winding between his feet in a figure of eight."


Shakespeare for Squirrels

Christopher Moore

"Well, death was a darkling dollop of dog wank."


The Goodbye Man

Jeffrey Deaver

"'Why should I talk to you?' the man scoffed."


The Wife Stalker

Liv Constantine

"The morning after the clearly-not-business dinner, I knew I had to take some kind of action, but I was having trouble coming up with a next step that didn’t make me seem like a jealous shrew."



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