Niche Communications: 3 books

“Am I going to die?”  Eighteen-year-old Mary Jane Bailey is sprawled on her back in a weed-choked field, bleeding from a cut on her forehead, when she asks that question to the man in a sharkskin suit standing over her holding a straight razor.  It is 1968. Jane is both a student...

    “It was arterial spray from her roommate Becky that saved Mary Jane’s life. There was so much blood he must have thought she was dead too.”      So begins Crashpad, a story set in the turbulent war year of 1970.       Skirts are short, hair is long; we’ve invaded...

Sailor Home From Sea from the journals of T.R. Macdonald: Westwood, CA. A UCLA Teaching Assistant is killed in a hit-and-run accident. But it's not an accident. It's murder. Chicago, IL. A therapist at a prominent mental health clinic kills his girlfriend and then turns the gun on himself. O'Hare...