FICTION

Envy the Night by Michael Koryta

A standalone crime novel from the author of the Lincoln Perry series.

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Devin Matteson - evil man for sure - was alive and free. Cut a deal, hung Frank's father out to dry, and then walked away. No punishment, no penance, no pain. He deserved some or all of that. He damn sure deserved some pain.

Envy the Night blasts into the life of Frank Temple. Frank's father was a hitman, and though Frank turned his back on his father's violent ways, he's never been able to get over his father's suicide after being turned in to the authorities by someone close to him.

So when Frank learns that Devin Matteson - the man he believes betrayed his father - is heading to a lake in Wisconsin, he finds himself drawn back to the lake to confront Matteson in a final showdown ...

With its excellent narrative and superb plot, Envy the Night confirms Michael Koryta's place among the top echelon of international crime writers. A moody and evocative novel, with overtones of both Michael Connelly and James Lee-Burke, it will keep you turning its pages well into the night.

About the Author

Michael Koryta became the youngest winner of the annual St Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel contest. Michael was just 20 when he wrote the winning novel, Tonight I Said Goodbye which went on to earn an Edgar nomination for best first novel. Michael's second novel was Sorrow's Anthem , which received excellent reviews. The third in his Lincoln Perry series, A Welcome Grave , confirmed Michael's place amongst the highest echelon of international crime writers.

Michael Koryta is just 26 and lives in Bloomington, Indiana. He majored in criminal justice at Indiana University, is an award-winning newspaper reporter, and a PI who works for one of Indiana's only certified legal investigators.

POETRY

The Grift by Debra Ginsberg

A psychic's life is turned upside down when she suddenly acquires real fortune-telling powers.

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What happens when a pseudo psychic suddenly gets the real gift?

Marina Marks has been on the grift as a psychic since she was a child, forced into the business by a junkie mother willing to use her solemn dark-haired daughter to peddle an extra buck. As an adult, Marina has earned a handsome living preying on the dreams and fears of her clients. She doesn't believe there is such a thing as psychic ability, but she does believe in intuition. Her gift is the ability to gain the trust of her clients and subtly raise her fees as they become more attached to her and her readings.

But when Marina moves her "intuitive counselling" business out of the muggy, cloying Florida to the milder enviros of southern California, her past follows her. As she takes on new clients - a trophy wife desperate to bear a child, a gay man involved with a closeted psychiatrist, and a philandering businessman who's smitten with her - a former client resurfaces in an eerie way.

Suddenly, Marina is in love for the first time, but it is a romance whose roots lie deep in her past and threaten her efforts to reinvent herself.

As Marina's life gets more and more entangled with those of her clients, she makes a startling discovery: she suddenly has the actual ability to see the future. After predicting a murder exactly as it happens, she becomes the sole suspect. Now she's the desperate one - desperate to clear her name and to discover the meaning behind her visions.

About the Author

Debra Ginsberg is the author of the memoirs Waiting , Raising Blaze , About My Sisters and the fiction bestseller, Blind Submission . She lives in Southern California.