Pretty Sinister Books

THE STORY: Matt Galt, Scottish ex-pat and private detective with a middling business, lives and works in Stratford primarily because he is ...

Franko Baxter is sort of lost in life. Drifting in and out of a humdrum life as a cab driver with no real friends, living with his Gran wi...

And now for something completely different.... I've been reading a lot of early transgressive fiction as research for an essay to b...

Psst, over here.  Ever hear of the Bechtel Corporation? They've got their hand in everything, you know. How about Opus Dei? Evil Catho...

Today Patti Abbot, our host for Friday's Forgotten books, has arranged for a tribute to Donald E. Westlake (and all his various pseudony...

The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon (1991) by Tom Spanbauer "It was the human-being hand reaching out the touch that feels so goo...