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The twenty-five quickly read stories of this collection (fourteen of which were first published in literary journals and magazines) range from the surreal setting of a man trying to cope with apples falling in his house to the coming-of-age stories of a fifteen year old boy.

Here is a mother who lives out her fantasy by pressuring her daughter to be a model; a man waiting to be fired for dropping a rolled up paper on his boss' face during a meeting; a fifty-six year old man who tries to justify being with a twenty-four year old woman; a teenage girl who struggles with her mother's...

"Do you know the difference between toothpicks and spider webs?" It was one of those questions that Coe asked when there was too much silence.

"What, Coe?" Larry asked.

"Thats the thing. There is no difference because everything is connected. Bread and birds and stars and strollers and pain and heat. And thats the trouble. Because nothing gets differentiated. And its all a mass of confusion."

"Thats whats wrong with us sometimes, Coe. The way we see things. I think nothing is connected. I think we try, but nothing comes close to...

NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MYSTERY WINNER OF THE JOHN D. MacDONALD FICTION AWARD

When an environmental activist freezes to death in August in Miami, it can only be a case for Jake Lassiter.

Miami lawyer Jake Lassiter has a dangerous conflict of interest. He's sleeping with Gina Florio...and defending her mobster husband in court for the wrongful death of an environmental activist. The homicidal Nick Florio has hatched a scheme deep in the Florida Everglades that oozes corruption, blood, and money. One false move, and Jake will be gator bait.

Living by his own...

Winterview is a book of memories, musings, and life stories about growing up, work, relationships, marriage, divorce, loneliness, remarriage, and becoming older.

Included are essays about the pain and grief of loss, reflections about the difficulty of seeking child custody, the struggles of being a writer, and the challenges of working with the developmentally disabled.

A number of the pieces included in the book are based in part or in their entirety on previous writing published in The New York Times, The Single Parent, the Berkeley Fiction Review, and American Way, the...

A doctor in love with his patient's wife...

A fatal mistake during surgery...

Accident? Malpractice? Or murder?

Defending a surgeon in a malpractice case, Jake Lassiter begins to suspect that his client is innocent of negligence...but guilty of murder. Add a sexy widow, a deadly drug, and a grave robbery to the stew, and you have Miami's trial of the century.

- 2008 election of Barack Obama
- global recession
- protracted war in Iraq and Afghanistan
- rise of...