Richard Sanders: 4 books

The Lit-Crit Take: A genre bending, character driven, word-burning thriller about visionary art, spiritual inspiration, hidden symbols and unsolved murders. The Pure Plot Pitch: What do you do when clues to an unsolved murder have been coded in a stolen $50 million painting? You try to steal...

He was told he had exactly eight days to live. By a blind psychic photographer. Okay, he was plenty crazy, but he asked me to help him. And after surviving threats, shootouts, a mysterious scarred woman and weird predictions that somehow managed to come true, I could only come to one conclusion: Fate is one strange thing to fight.

This self-contained short story is taken from the opening of Dead Line, a novel described as “a tightly woven, mind-spinning tapestry” (Split Seed Review), “a fluid, snaky thriller of great momentum” (Bookpleasures) and “Hunter Thompson mixed with Raymond Chandler” (Amazon review).What’s...

The Ask is the opening chapter of Dead Heat, a genre-bending, character-driven, word-burning thriller about politics, love and the haunting pain of memory. The Pure Plot Pitch: I didn’t know—or care—much about tight race for governor of New York until someone took a shot at one of the...