Curtis Brown: 56 books

Bel Barrett's back! This time the fifty-something New Jersey community college prof is teaching writing to future funeral directors with popular local undertaker Vinny Vallone. When Vinny's found swimming with the fishes in the Hudson River, Bel suspects a stalker who strikes back. In a flash, Bel's...

While Professor Bel Barrett and her live-in lover Sol Hecht are strolling along Hoboken's Sinatra Drive, they literally stumble upon the body of a dead ringer for the famous but now dead singer and native son. Someone has slain an Ol' Blue Eyes impersonator, and Bel is drafted by one of the suspects...

Sometimes the most difficult part of writing is not coming up with a plot or the perfect turn of phrase. It’s getting motivated to sit down and start, or having the confidence to go forward, or finding the courage to move past the sting of rejection. Loner in the Garret: A Writer’s Companion provides...

The fisher, a magnificent fur-bearer larger than the marten, inhabits the forests of North America. Seldom glimpsed, he is solitary and nocturnal. This novel, tells of one year in the fisher's life, from the spring of his infancy to the next spring, when his first mating occurs. It is the story of...

Take a smoking-hot captain with a secret and an undercover cruise reviewer determined to change her sex life from flat to fiery. Shake well over rough seas. Serve on a king-size bed for a sizzling good time. *   *   * For twenty-eight years, cruise critic Darcy Simons has followed...

Bree Watson traded her lab coat for a trench coat, expecting the life of a spy to be fun. But when a body turns up on her undercover mission, she's forced to handle: -A murdered woman with more enemies than meets the eye -A hunky handler posing as her fake boyfriend -A sexy detective bent on wooing...

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR... Two years ago, Vanessa Abott’s husband Jim, an up-and-coming artist, drowned himself in the Missouri River. His body still hasn’t been recovered. Now Vanessa has arranged for one last showing of his brilliant, disturbing artwork. Critics are raving, pieces...

Matt Riordan’s friend, Hugh Prokop, is a nice guy, who has run into bad luck. Prokop’s Seattle marine business has hit a rough patch and now his warehouse has burned down. Inside, the fire department finds a safe filled with a quarter of a million dollars and the crispy corpse of Prokop’s accountant....

Matt Riordan is got up in Stephen Turner’s murder when he not only witnesses the young exec’s death, but Turner’s sister, Kate, asks Riordan to investigate her brother’s death. Riordan finds himself examining the records of a notorious group of student revolutionaries called the Northwest...

Matt Riordan is back on the case. This time, Riordan has been asked to discreetly investigate the White Rose Mountain ski area—a Montana Pacific venture that is well under way when the head of its environmental survey team disappears. Riordan’s assignment quickly turns nasty. Sinister forces have...

Seattle lawyer Matt Riordan returns to narrate the follow-up to Huebner's Edgar nominee Judgment by Fire. Matt's lover, Lisa Thayer, receives a mysterious postcard bearing a recently painted watercolor that seems to be the work of her grandfather, Lee Thayer. However, Lee, a famous artist of the Pacific...

When her escape pod falls to earth, crashing in Ypsilanti Bloc, privileged seventeen-year-old Alice Walshe is dashed from the wonderland of wealth and prosperity into a ruined, walled city overrun with militias, gangs, and even cannibals. On top of this horror, her younger brother’s escape pod is...

A medieval schoolmaster whose students stabbed him to death with their pens---his name lives on in the College of Saint Cassian of Imola, a school with spectacular troubles.  World War II has ended, and overnight  Saint Cash’s has recklessly expanded from a dozen students to 4,500.  Unknown...

Winner of the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Debu Winner in the “Gay and Lesbian Fiction" category of the 2014 International Book Awards Finalist in the Best Multicultural Fiction Category at the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards "Absorbing entertainment....