James Newman: 45 books

"The celebrities that are idolized and the horrific reality that some fans simply cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality are the elements that breathe refreshing life into this plot. A psychological thriller at its finest..."Hellnotes, Rick AmortisNick Bullman was a wrestling superstar....

ALL FIVE of the infamous JOE DYLAN detective series in ONE book.  JOE DYLAN is from the old school. His nerves are shot to pieces, and he's trying to keep his life together in a tropical criminal's paradise where nothing is ever what it seems on the surface... This series of neo-noir novels...

Gantira didn’t plan for her lover to die on the Island of Ko Samui that morning. Nor did she plan for the Finnish backpacker to drown. She didn’t plan to be trapped in a gilded cage by her narcissistic millionaire husband. Or maybe she did? Fraud expert Joe Dylan is back in the land of sin investigating...

Bangkok, mega-city, land of metal and glass. What’s there to do in the city?  Explore shopping malls, ride a motorbike taxi, visit China Town. Take a river cruise, visit the night market in Pat Pong, watch the Beatles cover band, caress exotic pets at the weekend market, experience the embalmed...

"The White Flamingo – the third ‘Joe Dylan crime noir book ‘ – is hard-boiled pulp fiction pumped up to the max. It’s a lethal cocktail of graphic violence, booze, drugs and sex. It’s bright lights and dark shadows and it’s certainly not for the fainthearted." - Paul Brazill.  James...

"JOE DYLAN'S at it again, this time down the mean streets of both Fun City, Southeast Asia, and the equally rotten lanes of the UK. There's a touch of Dickens in this, joining Newman's more obvious influences: William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski and Jim Thompson. It's dark stuff, but exciting...

Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games. Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...

'James Newman writes with a flamethrower. He's terrifically gifted and enormously energetic' Edgar nominated Timothy Hallinan.   'A world of conmen,cheaters, schemers, wanderers, and the lost' Shamus winning author Christopher G. Moore.   'A Fascinating hybrid of classic detective work and gritty...

Some things are funny when they shouldn't be, and DEATH SONGS FROM THE NAKED MAN will leave you simultaneously laughing, shivering... and wondering WTF is wrong with James Newman and Donn Gash. From the title story, a bullet-riddled collaboration about bizarre goings-on at a convenience store, to...

Four boys and their counselors are on a church-sponsored camp-out. Innocent fun, right? Sure, until one of the boys goes missing in the night.    They find him, deep in the woods ... in The Church of Dead Languages. But he's not all they find there...   An exciting and chilling novelette from genre favorites James Newman and Jason Brannon!

A talking bug who may or may not be our sixteenth President reincarnated...a beloved grandfather with a terrible secret...a man who takes "coveting they neighbor's wife" to a horrifying new low...a community composed of sadists and serial killers...two smiling men in ties carrying the word of God...

You love them. Once upon a time, they loved you. Now they want to watch you die.   *   A group of visitors barricade themselves in one room at a senior-care facility. They need to protect themselves from the residents. . . The elderly wait outside. Their numbers are legion. Their...

Playing with Videogames documents the richly productive, playful and social cultures of videogaming that support, surround and sustain this most important of digital media forms and yet which remain largely invisible within existing studies. James Newman details the rich array of activities...

This online Clinics series provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily.  The tenth issue in our growing online database, edited by James Newman, covers essential updates in the following topics: Long QT; Noninvasive ventilation; Fever of Unknown Origin;...