Solomon's Daughter (The Penguin contemporary American fiction series)

Poverman, C. E.

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Failed lawyer-turned-private detective Frank August is confronted by a difficult conflict of interest when he is asked to investigate an old friend accused of involvement in a major drug case, a situation that forces him to confront unresolved relationships with his late father, his wife, and his drinking problem. Reprint.

On the Edge

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

St Martins Pr

Dust jacket design by Neil Stuart. His third book.

Solomon's Daughter

The Viking Press

Susan

In these sensitive and keenly observed stories dramatizing the complexities and ambiguities of human relationships, C. E. Poverman presents a richly varied range of protagonists. Among them are an Hispanic social worker who takes calls on a crisis center helpline ("Cutter"), a young model who demonstrates cosmetics ("Beautiful"), and a college professor accused of sexual abuse ("The Man Who Died"). The powerful climax of the collection is the hallucinatory title story, where a young woman discovers that her lover is a potentially dangerous psychopath. Marked by intelligence, compassion, and a sense of irony, these stories secure Poverman's place among the best writers of short fiction in America today.

Skin: Stories

United States

Ontario Review Press

On the Edge is an unflinchingly intimate portrayal of a man troubled by his past, the stress of a passionate love relationship with his young wife, and the pressures of his morally ambiguous job. Through Poverman's protagonist Frank August, we are exposed to a searingly candid picture of a legal investigator and the criminal justice system itself. Having failed the California bar exam, Frank August has become an investigator in San Francisco by default. When a lawyer offers him a drug case at his client's request, Frank is severely compromised; no one knows that the client and Frank have an old and complex friendship. As Frank goes deeper into the case, he finds himself confronted by his unresolved relationship with his dead father, his drinking, and his wife. He will ultimately be pushed to make a decision which will call all of his relationships into play, and test his concepts and bonds of loyalty and friendship.

The Black Velvet Girl

History & Criticism

Univ of Iowa Pr

The Black Velvet Girl (Iowa Short Fiction Award)

University Of Iowa Press

Fiction. "I am not lying when I say this book is better than Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Poverman gives us a situation and set of characters as mysterious and intriguing as Flynn does, he surprises us just as much, and we are as riveted to the author's slow unraveling of the main players' psychologies. [...] What Poverman has done is both more skillful and more realistic: he's painted three-dimensional characters who are as likely to do right as they are to do wrong, characters whose obsessions and actions blur the line between good and evil, whose backgrounds and circumstances justify the havoc they wreak."—Melanie Bishop for Huff Post Books "Magnificent in its conception and precisely detailed in its execution, LOVE BY DROWNING is a disquietingly obsessive psychological mystery of two brothers, Val and Davis,whose fates, set in motion early by their father, are tragically altered by their involvement with Lee Anne, a mysterious and charismatic woman. Poverman is a writer of such range and power, and of such oneiric strangeness and metamorphosis that at times the writing carries the force of myth. I disappeared into the world of the novel right from the beginning, and I haven't had that experience in a long while."—Michael Collier

Love by Drowning

Contemporary

El Leon Literary Arts

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