A vivid lot of characters, each worthy of the utmost compassion or contempt—or perhaps both—inhabit this debut collection. A Bible-beating preacher of the literal kind, a tattoo-covered man who plies dead armadillos with empty beer cans, a mother bent on retaliating against her daughter's attacker, and scores of other obsessive and temperamental personalities wander and collide in this striking collection. Running throughout the book is the recurrent theme of denial, or unshakable naiveté, in the face of disaster and its inevitable consequences. Anchored by the last piece, a cinematic, suspenseful account of a young attorney and her jealous lovers—these tales deliver a hard-hitting assortment of skillful storytelling.

Oh Don't You Cry for Me

Literature & Fiction

Shirley, Philip

Short Stories & Anthologies

Jefferson Pr Llc

<p>Advertising executive Peter Brantley is carjacked at gunpoint when a drug bust goes bad at a bus station near where he is stopped at a traffic light. After the carjacker instructs Peter to drive to a deserted, rural area, Peter knows he will be murdered as a witness, so he intentionally crashes his car and leaves the unconscious criminal at the scene. But Peter keeps the gym bag of cocaine left in his car. With a marriage on the rocks and depressed over his brother's death from a drug overdose, Peter back home comes up with a wild scheme to get even with the drug dealers by ransoming back the drug, but with no intention to deliver. He enlists his skeptical but capable wife, Mary Beth, to help him go against the odds to face a ruthless drug kingpin and a drug task force leader who are both closing in.</p>

The White Lie

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

MindBridge Press

<p>The Graceland Conspiracy delivers a coming-of-age story wrapped in a crime thriller. A rebellious young man becomes caught in a 1990s conspiracy in which the government will stop at nothing to prevent the release of sensitive information about a 1970s crime that could still bring down many powerful government figures and rewrite American pop-culture history. Matt Boykin had left Birmingham as a young college student and had gained seven years of street savvy working blue collar jobs on the West Coast and Texas. Then one night, a stranger in a suit helps Matt out of a tight spot in a Texas bar fight and whisks Matt away. The stranger hands Matt a card and tells him to call home where Matt’s father is in a coma and near death. Estranged all those years from family and friends, Matt arrives home a different person. His father dies soon after Matt’s return, but not before whispering clues for Matt to locate evidence that will later reveal the truth behind the death of an American music icon. Matt must search for this truth to save his own life, and his flight from those who would kill him lead him from Alabama to Texas to Mexico City to Munich and finally to Venice.</p>

The Graceland Conspiracy

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