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Although badly scarred and down to his last kidney after the previous caper, Happy Doll is back in business. When a beguiling young woman turns up at his door, it's Doll's past that comes knocking. Mary DeAngelo is searching for her estranged mother, Ines Candle--a singular and troubled woman Doll once loved. The last he'd seen her she'd been near-death: arms slit like envelopes. Although she survived the episode, she vanished shortly thereaft...

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In this deliciously noir novel from the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, idiosyncratic private detective Happy Doll embarks on a quest to help a dying friend in a sun-blinded Los Angeles  as "quirky, edgy, charming, funny and serious" as its protagonist (Lee Child).  Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff drop beneath the Hollywood sign with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, Geo...

An offbeat, blackly comic thriller from the author of You Were Never Really Here.

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Joe è un ex marine e un ex agente dell'FBI che ha visto troppe scene del crimine e conosciuto troppi traumi, e non solo nella sua vita professionale. Solitario e tormentato, ha scelto di essere invisibile: non ha amici o amanti e passa la sua vita a salvare giovani ragazze finite nelle grinfie mortali del sesso a pagamento. Ma quando viene assunto da un politico di New York per districare la figlia adolescente da un bordello di Manhattan, Joe ...

A supremely hardboiled thriller adapted for a major Hollywood film starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Lynne Ramsay.

Joe è un ex marine e un ex agente dell'FBI che ha visto troppe scene del crimine e conosciuto troppi traumi, e non solo nella sua vita professionale. Solitario e tormentato, ha scelto di essere invisibile: non ha amici o amanti e passa la sua vita a salvare giovani ragazze finite nelle grinfie mortali del sesso a pagamento. Quando viene assunto da un politico di New York per togliere la figlia adolescente da un bordello di Manhattan, Joe scopr...

In the proud tradition of drunken writers everywhere . . . comes the tale of Jonathan A., a boozed-up, coked-out, sexually confused, hopelessly romantic-and of course, entirely fictional-novelist who bears only a coincidental resemblance to real-life author Jonathan Ames, critically acclaimed author of Wake Up, Sir!, The Extra Man, and What's Not to Love as well as HBO's Bored to Death and Starz's Blunt TalkFeaturing gritty, yet poignant artwo...

Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. Only this hero has a penchant for ladies' clothes, and he's lost his teaching post at Princeton's Pretty Brook Day School after an unfortunate incident involving a colleague's brassiere.Meet Henry Harrison: former actor, brilliant but failed playwright, and a well-seasoned escort for New York City's women of means. He dances alone to Ethel Merman record...

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Now a major motion picture starring Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here is a gritty, harrowing story of corruption and one man's violent quest for vengeance.Joe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, his abusive childhood has left him damaged beyond repair. He has completely withdrawn from the world and earns his living rescuing girls who have been kidnapped into the sex trade.When he's hired to save...

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A powerful and brutally brilliant noir debut, it will tie in with the new film starring Joaquin Phoenix.

A witty homage to P.G. Wodehouse, reimagining the great comic character of Jeeves. Personal valet Jeeves does his best to sort things out for his troubled master, young, loony writer Alan Blair. Jeeves tries to help when Alan encounters a femme fatale at an artists' colony.

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A native New Yorker leaves Manhattan for a fresh start in Brooklyn, only to face a new strain of street logic.