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CRIME + MUSIC: The Sounds of Noir, collects twenty darkly intense, music-related noir stories by world-renowned mystery authors including David Corbett, Tyler Dilts, Brendan DuBois, Bill Fitzhugh, Alison Gaylin, A.J. Hartley, Craig Johnson, David Liss, Val McDermid, Gary Phillips, Peter Robinson, and Zoe Sharp, and, from the music world, Galadrielle Allman, author of Please Be With Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman and award-winning songwriter-novelist Willy Vlautin. Edited by novelist and Wall Street Journal rock and pop music critic Jim Fusilli. The lively anthology's chilling, sinister tales tap into the span of rock and pop history, ranging from Peter Blauner's heart-wrenching "The Last Temptation of Frankie Lymon" to Fusilli's "Boy Wonder," set in the world of contemporary electronic dance music; from Naomi Rand's "The Misfits," a punk-rock revenge saga to Mark Haskell Smith's menacingly comedic "1968 Pelham Blue SG Jr."; from Reed Farrel Coleman's study of a one-hit wonder, "Look at Me/Don't Look at Me" to Erica Wright's account of betrayal among minor talents in "A Place You're Likely to Find"--and many more. CRIME + MUSIC exposes the nasty side of the world of popular music, revealing it to be the perfect setting for noir tales.
THE OFFICIAL PREQUEL TO THE BLOCKBUSTER ACTION VIDEO GAME! PETER PARKER is caught in a complicated web. Working in a cutting-edge laboratory, he's a young scientist who's trying to make a difference. Yet he's constantly burdened by the responsibilities of his second career as the crime-fighting... SPIDER-MAN Wilson Fisk-the so-called Kingpin of Crime-has returned to New York, establishing himself publicly as an altruistic entrepreneur and philanthropist. Spider-Man knows better, but he can't uncover Fisk's scheme that, if executed, will make the crime lord "too big to fail." When a new threat-a deadly doppelganger with Spider-Man's suit and abilities-wreaks havoc in the streets, can the real wall-crawler prove his innocence? With the clock ticking and lives on the line, can Spider-Man stop the brutal rampage of the Blood Spider? Will Spider-Man fall to his fears and foes, or will he rise and be greater?
Amsterdam in the 1690s - a boom town with Europe's biggest stock exchange and traders who will stop at nothing to get even richer.
From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of
Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor
and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, David
Liss has created one of fiction's most enthralling characters.
"From the Hardcover edition."
This Fall (2014) Czech-born artist Vera Frenkel will present the reinstallation of several of her pivotal works at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto. Works on show will include her famous From The Transit Bar, 1992, which was first shown at Documenta 9 in Kassel and is now a part of the National Gallery of Canada's collection. Other important works will include South to the Water, North to the Sky and Once Near Water. Points of Departure: Vera Frenkel Words and Works is the ambitious new publication to accompany the exhibition, addressing Frenkel's ongoing use of voice and character throughout her practice. Whether making works that speak from the perspective of Vera Frenkel the 'story-teller', Vera Frenkel the unheard feminist artist or Vera Frenkel, one of many artists alienated by discriminating arts funding in Canada, Frenkel's works consistently address the injustices and inequalities within contemporary art practice.The book acknowledges the artist's influence on Canadian contemporary art and the importance of her early video works as well as addressing other core themes in here practice such as absence and presence, the use of language, and the marginalization Canada's first nations populations.
All new Fiction by: Gary A. Braunbeck, Hank Schwaeble, David Liss, Norman Partridge and Gemma Files. Interviews with: David Liss, Chelsie Aryn, Joe Bob Briggs and Quentin Tarantino Articles on: The Strange and Bizarre Alejandro Jodorowsky, Stephen King in the Old West - Rocky Wood, The Bloody Spaghetti Western turns 50 Columns from Jonathan Maberry, Yvonne Navarro, Richard Dansky, Robert Morrish and so much more Table of Contents Fiction Fever Springs by Norman Partridge Ungrateful Places by Gary A. Braunbeck Dead Man's Pecker by David Liss Phantom Hill by Hank Schwaeble Satan's Jewel Crown by Gemma Files Interviews A Conversation with David Liss by Joel B. Kirkpatrick Leah Jung presents: The Dark Side of Beauties with Chelsie Aryn by Joel B. Kirkpatrick Joe Bob Briggs: King of the Drive-Ins by Steve Holetz Quentin Tarantino on "Django Unchained" by Nick Freeman Features The Strange and Bizarre Alejandro Jodorowsky by Aaron J. French Stephen King in the Old West by Rocky Wood The Bloody Spaghetti Western turns 50 by James R. Beach Gaming in the Weird West: A Run through the Deadlands by Richard Dansky I Hear Voices in my Head by Yvonne Navarro What the hell ever happened to ... Mark Clements by Robert Morrish Once upon a Nightmare YA Horror: Western Horror by Amy Shane New Column by By Jonathan Maberry and David F. Kramer Literature, Genre, Horror ... and Mormons-What? by Michael R. Collings Hellnotes Reviews Book Reviews Movie Reviews
All new Fiction by: Gary A. Braunbeck, Hank Schwaeble, David Liss, Norman Partridge and Gemma Files. Interviews with: David Liss, Chelsie Aryn, Joe Bob Briggs and Quentin Tarantino Articles on: The Strange and Bizarre Alejandro Jodorowsky, Stephen King in the Old West - Rocky Wood, The Bloody Spaghetti Western turns 50 Columns from Jonathan Maberry, Yvonne Navarro, Richard Dansky, Robert Morrish and so much more Table of Contents Fiction Fever Springs by Norman Partridge Ungrateful Places by Gary A. Braunbeck Dead Man's Pecker by David Liss Phantom Hill by Hank Schwaeble Satan's Jewel Crown by Gemma Files Interviews A Conversation with David Liss by Joel B. Kirkpatrick Leah Jung presents: The Dark Side of Beauties with Chelsie Aryn by Joel B. Kirkpatrick Joe Bob Briggs: King of the Drive-Ins by Steve Holetz Quentin Tarantino on "Django Unchained" by Nick Freeman Features The Strange and Bizarre Alejandro Jodorowsky by Aaron J. French Stephen King in the Old West by Rocky Wood The Bloody Spaghetti Western turns 50 by James R. Beach Gaming in the Weird West: A Run through the Deadlands by Richard Dansky I Hear Voices in my Head by Yvonne Navarro What the hell ever happened to ... Mark Clements by Robert Morrish Once upon a Nightmare YA Horror: Western Horror by Amy Shane New Column by By Jonathan Maberry and David F. Kramer Literature, Genre, Horror ... and Mormons-What? by Michael R. Collings Hellnotes Reviews Book Reviews Movie Reviews
Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family--until he is asked to investigate his father's sudden death. Thus Weaver descends into the deceptive world of the English stock jobbers, gliding between coffee houses and gaming houses, drawing rooms and bordellos. The more Weaver uncovers, the darker the truth becomes, until he realizes that he is following too closely in his father's footsteps--and they just might lead him to his own grave. An enthralling historical thriller, A Conspiracy of Paper will leave readers wondering just how much has changed in the stock market in the last three hundred years. . . .
This sequel to the Edgar Award-winning "A Conspiracy of Paper" brings back ex-pugilist Benjamin Weaver and his 18th-century London environs in all their squalid glory. Benjamin is investigating the simple case of a threatening letter when he is caught up in a riot, accused of murder, and sentenced to hang.
America, 1787. Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington's most
valued spies, is living in disgrace after an accusation of treason
cost him his reputation. But an opportunity for redemption comes
calling when Saunders's old enemy, Alexander Hamilton, draws him
into a struggle with bitter rival Thomas Jefferson over the
creation of the Bank of the United States.
Edgar award-winning author of the popular historical novels A
Conspiracy of Paper and A Spectacle of Corruption, David Liss
showcases his amazing versatility with this brilliant new tale of
contemporary suspense: a literary thriller set in Florida, where
killing is a matter of conscience. "From the Hardcover edition."
The Edgar Award–winning novel A Conspiracy of Paper was one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659—a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day.
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