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Every Shallow Cut

By: Tom Piccirilli

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“Lovers of gritty noir will devour this . . . a pulse-pounding account of a writer’s descent into despair and violence.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) With his book sales—never strong to begin with—ebbing and the economy crashing, a writer is on the brink. When his wife leaves him and the bank takes his house, he goes over the edge. Living out of his car with his beloved bulldog, Churchill, he’s set upon by street punks just as he’s about to pawn the only things of value he has left. He’s lost nearly everything. But he’s gained a gun. His well-off brother lives in New York—far from Denver, but the only place he might find a reliable roof over his head and any hope of starting over. Along the road he will stop off to see ex-girlfriends, relatives, friends, and business associates. At this point, his primary goal is survival. But with each passing mile, the survival of others grows more uncertain—in this taut, psychologically gripping novel from a two-time International Thriller Award winner and Edgar Award finalist. Acclaim for Tom Piccirilli “Boldly original.” —New York Times Book Review on The Last Kind Words “Noir that mates Flannery O’Connor with Stephen King.” —San Francisco Chronicle on A Choir of Ill Children “Should make fans of Jim Thompson and Charlie Huston feel right at home.” —Kirkus Reviews on The Fever Kill

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A Choir of Ill Children

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

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A Choir of Ill Children

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind Words. This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews. A Choir of Ill Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a decaying, swamp backwater that draws the lost, ill-fated, and damned. Since his mother’s disappearance and his father’s suicide, Thomas has cared for his three brothers—conjoined triplets with separate bodies but one shared brain—and the town’s only industry, the Mill. Because of his family’s prominence, Thomas is feared and respected by the superstitious swamp folk. Granny witches cast hexes while Thomas’s childhood sweetheart drifts through his life like a vengeful ghost and his best friend, a reverend suffering from the power of tongues, is overcome with this curse as he tries to warn of impending menace. All Thomas learns is that “the carnival is coming.” Torn by responsibility and rage, Thomas must face his tormented past as well as the mysterious forces surging toward the town he loves and despises.

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0553900404

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The Last Whisper in the Dark

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

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The Last Whisper in the Dark

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

Youngest son Terry, a surviving member of the Rand family of cat burglars and con artists, becomes enmeshed in a heist gone wrong that pits him against an old nemesis and threatens to permanently estrange him from the woman he once loved.

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0345529006

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9780345529008

Forgiving Judas

By: Tom Piccirilli

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Forgiving Judas

By: Tom Piccirilli

Tom Piccirilli's third poetry collection is his most intensely personal, using the loss of his friends and family, forgiveness, and guilt.

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The Last Kind Words

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

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The Last Kind Words

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

Terry Rand, cut free from his family after his older brother, Collie, went on a senseless killing spree, returns home to piece together the day his brother turned rabid, delving into a blood history that reveals the Rand family tree is rotten to the roots, and the secrets his anchestor buried are now coming furious and vengeful to the surface.

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0345542363

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November Mourns

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

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November Mourns

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind Words. Two years ago Shad Jenkins went to prison for assaulting his sister’s attacker. Now he has returned to the southern mountain town of Moon Run Hollow, only to find that Megan is dead. No one knows how she died–or why she was found on Gospel Trail Road, a dirt path leading up to the gorge high above the Chatalaha River, where victims of yellow fever were once brought to die. Navigating a world filled with abnormal children and clandestine snake handlers, one that is slowly being poisoned by illegal moonshine, Shad must pierce the townsfolk’s superstitions and terrible secrets to find out the truth about his sister’s death. But the Blood Dreams he’s suffered from since childhood have taken on an eerie urgency, revealing to Shad the nightmarish form of an unseen adversary. Plagued by the wraiths that haunt the hollow, Shad finds himself increasingly unsure of his own sanity as he begins to piece together what may have happened to his sister–and who exactly his enemy is....

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0553901540

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The Coldest Mile

By: Tom Piccirilli

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The Coldest Mile

By: Tom Piccirilli

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind Words. Raised to be a thief and getaway driver, Chase left the bent life after he found his true love, Lila. For ten years he walked the straight and narrow—until Lila was murdered. Now Chase is looking for his grandfather Jonah, the stone-cold-killer con man who raised him anis the last living repository of his family’s darkest secrets. In returning to his criminal roots, Chase hopes to save Jonah’s infant daughter from the life that Chase himself can’t escape. But first he’ll need a score. Chase thinks he’s found it as a driver for a dysfunctional crime family that’s anything but organized. With the Langans’ patriarch dying, the once powerful syndicate may unravel before Chase can rip it off. If he survives the bloodbath to come, he’ll face an even uglier showdown. Because his grandfather Jonah is waiting for him at the coldest family reunion this side of hell.

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A Choir of Ill Children

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

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A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews. A Choir of Ill Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a decaying, swamp backwater that draws the lost, ill-fated, and damned. Since his mother’s disappearance and his father’s suicide, Thomas has cared for his three brothers—conjoined triplets with separate bodies but one shared brain—and the town’s only industry, the Mill. Because of his family’s prominence, Thomas is feared and respected by the superstitious swamp folk. Granny witches cast hexes while Thomas’s childhood sweetheart drifts through his life like a vengeful ghost and his best friend, a reverend suffering from the power of tongues, is overcome with this curse as he tries to warn of impending menace. All Thomas learns is that “the carnival is coming.” Torn by responsibility and rage, Thomas must face his tormented past as well as the mysterious forces surging toward the town he loves and despises.

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The Cold Spot

By: Tom Piccirilli

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The Cold Spot

By: Tom Piccirilli

Chase was raised as a getaway driver by his grandfather, Jonah, a con man feared by even the hardened career criminals who make up his crew. But when Jonah crosses the line and murders one of his own, Chase goes solo, stealing cars and pulling scores across the country. . . . And then he meets Lila, a strong-willed deputy sheriff with a beguiling smile who shows him what love can be. Chase is on the straight and narrow for the first time in his life—until tragedy hits, and he must reenter the dark world of grifters and crooks. Now Chase is out for revenge—and he’ll have to turn to the one man he hates most in the world. Only Jonah can teach Chase how to become a stone-cold killer. But even as the two men work together, Chase knows that their unresolved past will eventually lead them to a showdown of their own. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind Words.

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0553904965

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Headstone City

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

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Headstone City

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

“Tom Piccirilli is the master of the Southern gothic, quietly building horror where the chills grow with increasing strangeness.”—Denver Post A haunted man must settle his accounts with the living—and the dead. . . . The night Johnny Danetello drove a dying girl through the streets of Brooklyn in his cab, he was trying to save her life. Instead he ran down a cop and lost her and his freedom. Every day in prison, Johnny knew that Angie Monticelli’s family blamed him for her death, and that going home would be suicide. But Johnny has unfinished business with his former friend turned mob boss, Vinny Monticelli. Now Johnny has returned to converse with the doomed and the dead—and wait for Vinny to make his move. Survivors of a long-ago freak accident, the two men share access to alternate realities no one else can know—and to a past and present that will all become the same in a city only one of them can leave alive. . . . “In a genre where twisted souls and violence are the norm, Piccirilli’s work stands out for how it blends these elements with a literate sensibility.”—Publishers Weekly BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind Words.

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Spectra

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0553902350

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9780553902358

The Midnight Road

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

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The Midnight Road

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind Words. From the moment he saw the girl in the snowstorm, Flynn had less than an hour to live. But he’ll remember his last fifty minutes long after he’s dead. As an investigator for Suffolk County Child Protective Services, Flynn has seen more than his share of misery, but nothing could prepare him for the nightmare inside the Shepards’ million-dollar Long Island home. In less than an hour, that nightmare will send him plunging into a frozen harbor—and awaken him to a reality even more terrifying. They’ve nicknamed Flynn “The Miracle Man” because few have ever been resuscitated after being dead so long. But a determined homicide detective and a beautiful, inquisitive reporter have questions about what really happened at the Shepard house—and why the people around Flynn are suddenly being murdered. Flynn has questions of his own, especially when one of the victims dies while handing him a note: THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT. Flynn has returned from the Midnight Road—and someone wants to send him back.

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0553903845

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Shadow Season

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

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Shadow Season

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

An ex-cop, Finn was left literally blinded by violence. The one thing he can still see is the body of his wife, Dani, and a crime scene that won’t fade from his mind’ s eye. Now a professor, Finn never would have guessed that an isolated girls’ prep school could be every bit as dangerous as city streets. Especially when he stumbles upon a local girl lying in a graveyard in the middle of a raging blizzard. Finn may live in a world of total darkness, but it’s about to get a splash of red. The memories that torment him still have the power to kill, and a group of innocent students has been put in harm’s way by a pair of vicious criminals stalking Finn for unknown reasons. Secrets are creeping from the shadows around him—the kind that even a man with perfect vision never sees until it’s too late. They’re about to become terrifyingly clear to Finn—and it all begins with the scent of blood. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind Words.

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0553592475

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The Last Kind Words

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

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A Novel

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The Dead Letters

By: Tom Piccirilli

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The Dead Letters

By: Tom Piccirilli

Five years after Eddie Whitt's daughter was murdered by the serial killer known as Killjoy, Eddie continues to hunt him down, following an eerie trail to a deadly cult, but his quest is complicated by dark forces that torment him with inexplicable events.

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0553384074

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Sorrow's Crown

By: Tom Piccirilli,Tom Piccinilli

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Sorrow's Crown

By: Tom Piccirilli,Tom Piccinilli

In Sorrows Crown Jon Kendrick, the only true friend of Zebediah Crummler, the caretaker of Felicity Grove's cemetery arrested for murder and imprisoned, must make sense of Crummler's riddles, ravings and inconsistent stories, which have buried within them the clues to who killed Teddy Harnes.

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Berkley Publishing Group

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1885173539

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Coffin Blues

By: Tom Piccirilli

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Coffin Blues

By: Tom Piccirilli

A man must leave behind his quiet life as a coffin builder to help save his ex-lover’s new husband, even though the dangerous trek to Mexico may get him killed.

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0843953365

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The Dead Past

A Mystery

By: Tom Piccirilli

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The Dead Past

A Mystery

By: Tom Piccirilli

Welcome to Felicity Grove. This upstate New York village is as small as it is peaceful. But somehow Jonathan Kendrick's eccentric grandma Anna always manages to find trouble. Crime, scandal, you name it ... this wheelchair-bound senior citizen is involved. So when the phone rings at 4 a.m. in Jonathan's New York City apartment, he knows to expect some kind of dilemma. But Anna's outdone herself this time. She's stumbled across a dead body ... in her trash can."--Back cover

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0425166961

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November Mourns

A Novel

By: Tom Piccirilli

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The Dead Letters

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A Novel

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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind Words. Five years ago, Eddie Whitt’s daughter Sarah became the victim of a serial killer known as Killjoy, and Whitt vowed to hunt him down—no matter what the cost. But the police have given up. And Killjoy has stopped killing…and in some bizarre act of repentance has begun kidnapping abused infants and leaving them with the parents of his original victims. The only clues to Killjoy’s identity lie in a trail of taunting letters. And even as they lead Whitt to a deadly cult—and closer to his prey—he begins to suspect that, like his wife, he’s losing his grip on reality: Sarah’ s dollhouse is filled with eerie activity, as if her murder never occurred. As dark forces rise around him, Whitt must choose—between believing that evil can repent…and stepping into a trap set by a killer who may know the only way to save Whitt’s soul.

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0553902970

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Every Shallow Cut

By: Tom Piccirilli

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Every Shallow Cut

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Welcome to Hell: A Working Guide for the Beginning Writer

By: Tom Piccirilli

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Welcome to Hell: A Working Guide for the Beginning Writer

By: Tom Piccirilli

Welcome to Hell is an anecdotal look into Piccirilli's life and writing process that happens to serve as a wonderful tool for any fledgling writer. "If anybody tells you that all you need is a lucky break, then tell them to shove off. Luck is about the worst thing that can happen in this biz, and it's no substitute for knowledge, experience, and skill." --Tom Piccirilli, from Welcome to Hell

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1933846836

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