The Way Home
A brilliant new novel about fathers and sons and the dangers of modern life. Read More »
The Turnaround
On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever. Read More »
The Night Gardener
The haunting story of three cops—one good, one bad, one broken—and the murder that reunites them in a showdown decades in the making. Read More »
Drama City
A novel about two scarred and human people who must navigate one of life's most brutal passages. Read More »
Hard Revolution
Rookie Derek Strange and Frank Vaughn, two cops struggling to do their jobs against the backdrop of a violent uprising, collide in the middle of a full-fury revolution. Read More »
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Soul Circus
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are back on the job and trying to get to the bottom of the tangled loyalties that have a local drug czar jailed on murder charges. Read More »
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Hell To Pay
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of investigators who made their debut in Right As Rain, are hired to find a 14-year-old girl who's run away from her home in the suburbs. Read More »
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Right As Rain
George Pelecanos introduces two new characters, both former cops: one who walked away from the job with his pride and a life—and another who didn't. Read More »
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Shame The Devil
A story with a heart-stopping pace and the most evil killers this side of Elmore Leonard—but with an eye on the hereafter and the real cost of violence. Read More »
The Sweet Forever
Captures an unforgettable fight for survival as two men confront the most soul-chilling violence ever to visit Washington, D.C. Read More »
Shoedog
Two strangers—one white, one black—have come together in a criminal's audacious plan. Read More »
Down By the River Where the Dead Men Go
Nick Stefanos gets drawn into the murder of Calvin Jeter, an investigation that takes him through the roughest part of the nation's capital and the blackest parts of the human soul. Read More »
The Big Blowdown
For Joey Recevo and Pete Karras, two kids from one of Washington's rougher neighborhoods, the easiest work to find after the War is all criminal... Read More »
King Suckerman
A sizzling thriller that weaves the blaxploitation films, the drug deals, the soul music, and the racial tensions that defined the seventies into a story of natural-born killers and two men who risk everything to bring them down. Read More »
Nick's Trip
Tending bar one night at the Spot, Nick Stefanos agrees to find Billy Goodrich's missing wife. And with that first step, he sets out on a one-way trip through a sewer of theft, intrigue, and love. Read More »
A Firing Offense
Nick Stefanos, an aging salesman for Nutty Nathan's electronics, risks his already shaky position at work to locate the stockboy who has suddenly been declared missing. Read More »
