David Jay: 6 books

A summertime short story by Chicago author David Jay Collins. Surprises await a lakefront tour guide who learns that the smallest kindnesses can be repaid in unexpected ways. Also by David: novels Gaybash and Summerdale.

Four gay men. Four addictions. One landlord from Hell. Welcome to Summerdale, the beginning of a horror novel series set in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood.  The landlord of Summerdale House is Mr. McGreevy, a charismatic sociopath who enables addiction and isolates his tenants until...

This is a story within a story. When a mother and daughter take a few wrong turns in unfamiliar areas they eventually drive straight into a gang of drug pushers. It will ultimately be a fatal mistake. The grieving father and husband is Jack Taylor, a man who spent a large part of his life killing...

What would an Englishman on the lam who had just landed on American soil rather do, get in the middle of a knife fight, or rummage through a foul-smelling garbage can looking for something to eat?When two hoodlums attack Joseph Hunter in an alley, hold a knife to his throat and demand his watch...

What would an Englishman on the lam who had just landed on American soil rather do, get in the middle of a knife fight, or rummage through a foul-smelling garbage can looking for something to eat?When two hoodlums attack Joseph Hunter in an alley, hold a knife to his throat and demand his watch...

Matt Tompkins, a reserved gay man, has always played by the rules and has created a comfortable but unfulfilling life for himself. When his bold best friend Greg reaps unexpected rewards for standing up for himself in a very public display, Matt's jealousy leads him to risk everything when he's confronted...