Dan Ahearn: 4 books

From Shoot the Moon: “Anyway, it was big and I set up the trickiest structure. Accounts all over the world and money flying around like... The right mix of drugs and Remy Martin. Like a big whirl of light and money, pulsating like it was alive, like one of those glowing jellyfish things deep in...

What the critics say about "Black Light": "Black Light is a winner from the beginning to its slam-bang ending. Not to be missed." — Howard Frye, in Reading For Pleasure "New York's Joe Noonan is back (his debut was in Bad August)...The motives are many, the...

What the critics say about Bad August: "...one of the two best first novels (of the year)... Joe Noonan is a gem... characters you'll want to meet again -- and soon. Hearn's writing is effortless, and although it may have been a bad August for Joe Noonan, his story is a delight for a reader...

Dean McCarthy was born under a bad sign and trouble follows him wherever he goes. To begin with, his father was drunk when he crashed the car and fractured Dean's skull, leaving his son with the occasional brain seizure. Then Dean's mom got cancer and he had to take care of her as she died because...