novelists

Novelist Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich is pulled into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse when he learns that Shearman Waxx, the critic who wrote a vicious criticism of Cubby's latest book, is actually a sociopath bent on destroying more than Cubby's career.

General Denton, an expatriate U.S. Civil War veteran and former frontier sheriff, teams up with social worker Janet Striker in 1900 London to investigate the brutal murder of prostitute Stella Minter and hunt down what might be the long-gone Jack the Ripper.

Drew Danner awakens in an L.A. hospital with no memory of how he got there, and no idea why the police found him over his ex-fiancee's dead body, and sets out to prove his innocence and learn how she really died.

Joan Castleman, traveling with her husband, famous novelist Joseph Castleman, to Helsinki where he is to be honored with a prestigious award, comes to the realization that she has had enough and wants out of their long, deceptive marriage.

Presents brief biographies of twenty famous novelists.

Paul and Lacey Hansen, orphaned, twenty-something siblings running a marijuana farm in rural northern California, find a headless corpse in the field, and obviously unable to call police, decide to move the body only to have it show up again several days later and much worse for wear. Written in alternating chapters by former romantic partners Lisa Lutz and David Hayward, with notes they exchanged during the novel's development.

Presents the fictional journals of eighty-five-year-old Logan Mountstuart in which he tells of his boyhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, the publication of his first book, his association with some of history's most famous authors, his World War II service, and other adventures into old age.

Two American couples, one from the East and one from the West, form a fast and lifelong friendship during the mid-thirties of the Depression.

American college student Jonathan Safran Foer sets out, along with Ukranian travel agent Alex Perchov, Alex's depressive grandfather, and the family dog, in an attempt to find the village where a Ukranian woman might or might not have saved Jonathan's grandfather from the Nazis during World War II.