Joe Clifford. Oceanview (Midpoint, dist.), $25.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-60809-133-1
Jay Porter, the narrator of this powerful novel set during a bitter New Hampshire winter, is drifting through life, stuck in his hometown, where he has a dead-end job sorting junk and a hopeless relationship with his ex-girlfriend and their toddler...
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Joe Clifford. Oceanview (Midpoint, dist.), $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-60809-171-3
Clifford’s harsh, emotionally raw sequel to 2014’s Lamentation finds Jay Porter, now a New Hampshire insurance adjustor, suffering from the effects of his guilt and grief surrounding the “suicide by cop” of his junkie brother, Chris. Separated from...
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Joe Clifford. Oceanview, $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-60809-204-8
In Clifford’s unrelentingly bleak third Jay Porter novel (after 2016’s December Boys), the 34-year-old New Hampshire estate clearer spends a lot of time bemoaning his fate. Porter doesn’t have a lot going for him—he’s divorced; his best friend,...
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Joe Clifford. Oceanview, $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-60809-243-7
Clifford’s depressing fourth Jay Porter novel (after 2017’s Give Up the Dead) finds Jay, a 36-year-old recovering alcoholic who suffers from panic attacks, attending an AA meeting in Ashton, N.H., where he can’t help noticing Amy Lupus, an...
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Joe Clifford. Down & Out, $17.99 trade paper (278p) ISBN 978-1-948235-42-6
Alex Salerno, the heroine of this unsettling psychological thriller from Clifford (Broken Ground and three other Jay Porter novels), travels from New York City to her hometown of Reine, N.Y., to be interviewed by Noah Lee, a 19-year-old reporter for
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Edited by Richard Brewer and Gary Phillips. Polis, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-943818-90-7
This clever anthology focuses on what happens to each of seven gang members in the aftermath of a big heist. The target is Clovis Harrington, the owner of an 18,000-acre cattle ranch outside Fort Worth, Tex., who keeps $7 million in a secret safe....
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Joe Clifford. Oceanview, $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-60809-326-7
After almost a year on the run as a murder suspect, Jay Clifford returns home to Ashton, N.H., in Clifford’s impressive fifth crime novel featuring the unlikely investigator and former estate clearer (after 2018’s Broken Ground). When Jay visits the
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Joe Clifford. Polis, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-951709-10-5
In this gripping crime novel from Thriller Award finalist Clifford (The One That Got Away), Dwayne Sobczak, the police chief of Covenant, Conn., is sure trouble will follow the return to town of former Wall Street financier Greg Norman, who’s...
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Joe Clifford. Polis, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-951709-40-2
College student Brandon Cossey, the narrator of this impressive thriller from Thriller Award finalist Clifford (The Lakehouse), gets a call from his friend Jacob Balfour’s mother informing him that Jacob, who’s mentally ill, has disappeared from...
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