Duane Swierczynski, Author . Quirk $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-931686-49-5
Beer may have gone a bit upscale in recent years, what with all those microbrews and Belgian ales, but Swierczynski (The Perfect Drink for Every Occasion
) is more interested in the history of Pabst Blue Ribbon and the trivia of hangovers, not to...
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Duane Swierczynski, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (226p) ISBN 978-0-312-34379-8
Swierczynski chronicles a long, frenzied and near-fatal night in Philadelphia in his fast-paced if far-fetched sophomore effort (after 2005's The Wheelman
). The narrative cuts back and forth between journalist Jack Eisley, who's poisoned at
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Duane Swierczynski, Author Minotaur $13.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-36340-6
In this workmanlike time travel thriller from Swierczynski (Severance Package
), 37-year-old Mickey Wade, a struggling journalist who’s lost his job with an alt-weekly newspaper, the Philadelphia City News
, accepts his mother’s...
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Duane Swierczynski, Author Point Blank $31.95 (204p) ISBN 978-1-930997-59-2
Crime fiction doesn't get much weirder than Duane Swierczynski's debut mystery, Secret Dead Men. Deceased detective Del Farmer, who has somehow learned to collect souls (and house them inside himself in a ""Brain Hotel"" complete with lobby,...
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Duane Swierczynski, Author Point Blank $15.95 (204p) ISBN 978-1-930997-58-5
Crime fiction doesn't get much weirder than Duane Swierczynski's debut mystery, Secret Dead Men. Deceased detective Del Farmer, who has somehow learned to collect souls (and house them inside himself in a ""Brain Hotel"" complete with lobby,...
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Duane Swierczynski. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $14.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-13330-2
While not quite up to the standard of its predecessors, the concluding volume in the Charlie Hardie trilogy (after 2011’s Hell and Gone) offers Swierczynski’s appealing blend of bizarre plot developments and frenetic prose. The one-time police...
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Duane Swierczynski. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-40320-7
The wild plotting that Shamus Award–winner Swierczynski pulled off in his intentionally over-the-top Charlie Hardie series (Fun and Games, etc.) doesn’t work in this implausible story of Sarie Holland, an honors student at a Philadelphia college,...
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Duane Swierczynski. LB/Mulholland, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-40323-8
Edgar-finalist Swierczynski (Canary) skillfully juggles three interrelated plot lines set decades apart in this complex whodunit. In 1965, Philadelphia police officer Stan Walczak and his partner are in a bar, taking a break from their duties...
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Duane Swierczynski and Michael Gaydos. Dark Circle, $14.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-61988-962-0
Since debuting from Archie Comics in the 1940s, the Black Hood has been through many incarnations and publishers but has stayed a superhero crime fighter. Back at Archie for a new version, this Black Hood targets corruption and injustice in the...
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Duane Swierczynski, Author, Dennis Calero, Illustrator . St. Martin’s Minotaur $13.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-312-34380-4
At the start of this violent and intense noir and espionage hybrid from Swierczynski (The Blonde
), David Murphy, the CEO of a Philadelphia financial company, summons his seven staffers for an important Saturday meeting, where he informs them that...
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Anthony Zuiker, Author, Duane Swierczynski, Author with Duane Swierczynski. Dutton $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-95125-4
You get a movie with the book.
Level 26
Anthony Zuiker
with Duane Swierczynski. Dutton
, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-95125-4
CSI creator Zuiker teams with Swierczynski (Severance Package
) to create what's billed as the world's first
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James Patterson and Duane Swierczynski. Little, Brown, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-3164-0489-1
This easygoing mystery from bestseller Patterson (the Alex Cross series) and Marvel comics writer Swierczynski centers on rival Philadelphia PIs Veena Lion and Cooper Lamb, both of whom have been hired to investigate the slaying of Eagles...
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Duane Swierczynski. Mulholland, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-38297-7
Swierczynski delivers his best work since the Charlie Hardie series in this virtuoso serial killer thriller. Jack Queen was convicted of murdering real estate tycoon Julian Church by running him down in a car while drunk, an apparent act of revenge...
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