Phillip Gardner: 7 books

Phillip Gardners collection of stories Somebody Wants Somebody Dead pretty much corners the market when it comes to people living on the wrong side of the law—which is usually the right side of the law in these locales —and taking matters into their own hands. Throw in a garbage collecting...

Someone To Crawl Back To is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what theyve always wanted or what theyve eternally lost. Set in small town South Carolina, those hearts belong to wrecker drivers, drive-thru fast food workers, college professors, bartenders, insurance and mobile homes...

In Necessary Evils, Hal, an L. A. cop driven to avenge the murder of his three partners, finds himself blindfolded and stripped to the waist, on his knees, his hands bound behind him, surrounded by a chorus of vigilantes—parents from all over America whose children have been killed by drugs—as they...

An aging, conflicted man and his band of quirky booksellers toil in the modern retail world, where a lone customer (or fellow bookseller) can at anytime cause an uproar. Beyond work, this man must also navigate a homelife that is most often a wilderness of confusion.

Eighteen tragicomic short stories that explore love, tragedy, and loss. As he disassembles an infant's nursery, a father struggles for ways to tell his young daughter her brother is dead; a boy learns the truth about his parents' divorce; an out of work rock musician finds himself custodian of an abandoned...

Vincent King, last seen in KINGS RANSOM, is back from his Himalayan adventure. Hes in Upstate New York, looking into a suicide that a bereaved husband doesnt accept, despite all the evidence. As King pokes around, the evidence begins to unravel. But no one thanks him for his efforts. Eventually hes...

Come, now, and enter the dark and largely hidden world of military law enforcement. K-Town is GI shorthand for Kaiserslautern, Germany, where the US Forces Police are based. Spend a Christmas week with the K-Town cops as they struggle to keep up and keep sane, battling military law breakers, terrorists...