"Bones of Brooklyn continues the saga of Howard "Windows" Fenster, the reluctant gangster extraordinaire. In Debasements of Brooklyn, Howie fights his way out of Sheepshead Bay, using insights gleaned
"For Zaima al-Aziz, her poetry is the most direct expression of her anger and pain. It pours out from her in sharp, clear language, more like expulsion than expression. She is an Iraqi American who ha
"I am unacquainted with evil, there being no mirrors here," begins the testimony of Ethan Harms, hero of Harms' Way, Thomas Rayfiel's dark depiction of prisoners and prison life. Harms' Way takes us i
"The elusive lover of Do Not Find Me returns to tell her side of the story in The Autobiography of Corrine Bernard. From her hapless childhood under Nazi occupation to her life as a woman of letters i
After a Southampton home owner is found dead, Sam Acquillo and defense attorney Jackie Swaitowski discover that the main suspect, a Colombian immigrant, may be innocent, despite the fact that the chie
While attempting suicide, guilt-ridden Hugh Mcpherson sees his sons holding the last letter he sent to their mother, reawakening memories that throw doubt on the boys' disappearance.
"As a young man, Gigi Paulo arrives in New York and is immediately drawn to a girl he sees in a bar near Penn Station. Before he can approach her, she is gone. He returns to the bar for weeks, hoping
"All it takes is one mistake. For Jimmy Paccini, savvy and cool-headed, it was joining the Brooklyn mob, the easy way out of a nowhere life that for arranging the execution of the head of a rival crim
