Two sets of lives collide in a spectacular supermarket robbery in this Miami-based crime novel built around an amoral killer

Sideswipe

Literature & Fiction

Willeford, Charles Ray

United States

St Martins Pr

Miami homicide detective Hoke Mosely matches wits with a psychopathic killer, career criminal "Junior" Frenger, an elusive and unpredictable crook capable of blending into any environment

Miami Blues

Miami detective Hoke Moseley is impeded in his pursuit of a psychopathic killer by his superior, his two teenage daughters, and his Cuban partner

New Hope for the Dead

The Way We Die Now

Look the Part. Die the Part. A three-year-old murder case was coming together nicely. A killer Hoke had once put in prison has moved into the house across the street. And Hoke Moseley's daughter has blue hair. But now Hoke has to walk away from his life and pretend to be a bum. Turns out it isn't hard. Hoke hands over his teeth, wallet, and gun on the hot Tamiani Trail -- the highway that connects Miami and Naples by way of the alligator-infested Everglades. Hoke's boss, Major Willie Brownley, has arranged this little undercover adventure. And what an adventure it will be. In a dusty corner of South Florida, Hoke enters a world of Haitian migrant workers, soup kitchens, and forgotten whores. And in the searing heat he'll meet the man he's been sent to kill -- the most vicious beast in the land... From the Paperback edition.

Random House, Inc.

A new paperback edition of the neo-noir novel book critics have called Willeford's best. Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing art critic Jacques Figueras will do anything - blackmail, burglary, fencing, assassination - to further his career. Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford expands his noir palette to include hues of sunny Florida and weird tints of Surrealism when Figueras takes a job for an art collector who doesn't care how his art is collected, even if it involves murder.

The Burnt Orange Heresy

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Carroll & Graf Pub.

The author recounts his childhood as an orphan in Los Angeles, and his experiences as a hobo during the Depression

I WAS LOOKING FOR A STREET: A Memoir

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Countryman Pr

Richard Hudson, a used car salesman living with his mother, her blacklisted movie director husband, and an over-sexed teenage stepsister, gives in to the urge to make a movie, but when the movie is rejected he extracts a terrifying revenge

The Woman Chaser

Larry Dolman, Eddie Miller, and Don Luchessi, fellow residents at Dade Towers, a singles-only apartment house in Miami, help their friend, Hank Norton, when the strange girl he brings back from a drive-in dies unexpectedly

The Shark-Infested Custard: A Novel of Crime, Vice, and Sex

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Underwood Books

The Right Reverend Deuteronomy Springer of the Church of God's Flock, who is in reality a novelist from Miami, brings trouble on himself when he checks into a Harlem hotel with a women named Merita

The Black Mass of Brother Springer (Saturday Night Special)

Contemporary

Black Lizard Books

Traces the life of Alabama's record-setting football coach, describes the highlights of his career, and discusses his philosophy and influence on the game

Kiss Your Ass Good-Bye

Creative Arts Book Co.

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