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Winter's Bone
by Daniel Woodrell
Meet Ree Dolly — not since Mattie Ross stormed her way through Arkansas in True Grit has a young girl so fiercely defended her loved ones. Sixteen-year-old Ree Dolly has grown up in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks and belongs to a large extended family. On a bitterly cold day, Ree, who takes care of her two younger brothers as well as her mother, learns that her father has skipped bail. If he fails to appear for... (more)
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The Bayou Trilogy
The Bayou Trilogy
Under the Bright Lights / Muscle for the Wing / The Ones You Do
by Daniel Woodrell
In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life. Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth. As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of ex-cons, and the ghosts of his own checkered past, Woodrell's three seminal novels pit long-entrenched criminals against the hard line of the law, brother against brother, and two vastly different... (more)
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The Outlaw Album
by Daniel Woodrell
Praise for WINTER'S BONE: "Woodrell's Old Testament prose and blunt vision have a chilly timelessness that suggests this novel will speak to readers as long as there are readers." ( The New York Times Book Review David Bowman ) "Despite the roughness of the content, Woodrell has a poet's sense of how to turn a phrase. . . . Seek him out now, throw down fifteen bucks, and bend your face to the page. You'll... (more)
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The Death of Sweet Mister: A Novel
by Daniel Woodrell
"<Woodrell> has achieved near mastery of style: language, plot, characterization and theme mesh with a seamless power." ( Michael Anderson, New York Times Book Review ) "A fiery, poetic, hair-raising novel." ( Bret Israel, Los Angeles Times ) "The plot, tawdry in the abstract, is transformed by Woodrell's gallows humour and his rendering of Shug's voice, part Huck Finn, part Holden... (more)
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Give Us a Kiss
by Daniel Woodrell
The law wants his brother on a felony charge, and Doyle Redmond is supposed to talk him into giving up. But Smoke is a convincing man--and Doyle's fast realizing that you "can" put the country back into the boy . . . but sometimes, it ain't so smart.
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The World Made Straight
by Ron Rash
Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders onto a neighbor+s property in the woods, discovers a crop of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. After hours of passing in and out of consciousness, Travis is discovered by Carlton Toomey, the wise and vicious farmer who set the trap to protect his plants, and Travis+s confrontation with the subtle evils... (more)
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A Single Shot
by Matthew F. Jones
A finely written literary thriller follows a backwoodsman who accidentally shoots a teenage girl and, in trying to find out who the girl was without revealing his deed, discovers shocking crimes perpetrated by the local residents. Reprint. NYT.
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Tomato Red
by Daniel Woodrell
"Woodrell does for the Ozarks what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles or Elmore Leonard does for Florida."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review Daniel Woodrell has been called "stone brilliant" (James Ellroy); an author whose novels "make you whistle they're so good" ( Chicago Tribune ). In Tomato Red , his 1998 New York Times Notable Book, now being published in a Plume trade edition, Woodrell brings... (more)
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Rogue Males
by Craig McDonald
In 2006, Craig McDonald published Art in the Blood, a collection of probing, long-form interviews with 20 major crime writers that was immediately hailed as a definitive text in the study of modern crime and mystery fiction. Now McDonald a genuine expert on the history of crime fiction (Eddie Mueller, San Francisco Chronicle) returns with Rogue Males, a collection of no-holds-barred interviews with 16 authors who... (more)
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Give Us a Kiss: A Novel
by Daniel Woodrell
"Woodrell knows deeply the subjects he writes on . . . Most important, he knows the voices of his people, and he never sounds a false or condescending note." ( Pinckney Benedict, Washington Post ) "He celebrates blood kin, home country and hot sex in this rich, funny, headshakingly original novel. Woodrell is a ladystinger of a writer." ( Annie Proulx ) "Slick, sparkling, stylized....takes on a mythic... (more)