Humans
10 best books like Humans (Donald E. Westlake): Slide, The Vampire Files, Volume 2, The Secret Language, Rumpole and the Golden Thread, Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, Heart of Briar, Bob, Son of Battle, Skeleton Key, The Enthusiast, Detective
I'm telling you - these two characters, Max & Angela have got to be the two luckiest criminals in crime-lit history.
Max has to be the stupidest criminal in crime-lit history while Angela has to have the worst taste in men in crime-lit history.
These books are really in the black-humor...
The Vampire Files, Volume 2
| Author | P.N. Elrod |
| ISBN | 0441014275 |
Even the dead have to work for a living. In the wake of my resurrection as a member of the bloodsucking undead, I chose to put my investigative reporting talents to good use as a PI in Chicago; I've got my work cut out for me.
Mingling with society's artsy crowd isn't my favorite pastime, but someone's...
| Author | Ursula Nordstrom |
| ISBN | 0064400220 |
At first, Victoria North is miserable at the Coburn Home School. Her housemother is very strict, she's terribly homesick and the other girls don't seem to have any time for a shy new girl.Then Vicky meets Martha Sherman, and everything changes. Martha introduces Vicky to pie-beds, midnight feasts...
| Author | John Mortimer |
| ISBN | 0140063315 |
the title story manages to weave old-fashioned morality, English legalese, colonialism, and the need for African independence into an inoffensive little mystery. but is that a valediction or a condemnation? this take on a loaded topic is certainly tasteful and wryly amusing. but should it be?
in...
| Author | Bradley Denton |
| ISBN | 0380718766 |
It doesn't have quite the same rocking energy that his first novel, Wrack and Roll, contained, but this is a very well written good book in the semi-quirky tradition of Rudy Rucker and the best of Avram Davidson. The characterization is especially well-drawn, and the plot, while a little hard to completely...
| Author | Laura Anne Gilman |
| ISBN | 0373803559 |
"He has been taken. And you are his only chance."
That wasn't something Jan expected to hear--especially from strangers who'd just rescued her from some mysterious and ferocious creatures. And she really hadn't expected her rescuers to be shape-shifters....
Now it turns out her...
| Author | Alfred Ollivant |
| ISBN | 1434487768 |
The extremely-- no, EXTREMELY gory and tragic story of an old Scotsman and his killer dog, Red Wull, which people inexplicably think is a nice rousing dog story for kids. Two feuding sheep farmers express their hatred and rivalry by entering their respective dogs in sheep-herding contests. It climaxes...
| Author | Jane Haddam |
| ISBN | 0312978650 |
When writer and ex-deb Bennis Hannaford discovers the body of super-heiress Kayla Anson in the family garage, her visit to Litchfield County, Connecticut, is reluctantly extended. Bennis's hostess, Margaret Anson, presents an icy version of the grieving mother, cut out her late husband's will--until...
| Author | Charlie Haas |
| ISBN | 0061711829 |
Henry Bay has his own America going. If there's an offbeat interest or extreme sport that's poised to sweep the nation, chances are there's a magazine for its enthusiasts, and chances are also good that Henry has worked there. He's a modern nomad, associate-editing his way from state to state, exploring...
This debut entry in the author's mystery series features actor-turned private investigator Stanley Hastings. Poor Stanley! In a word, his pursuits end in FAILURE. So when Martin Albrecht comes to him with a case for a real detective, Stanley turns him away. Unfortunately, Stanley s damned path leads...
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0688168434 |
Believing is seeing, as the title of this outstanding collection of fantasies proclaims. And reading is seeing more than you've ever imagined when in the masterful hands of acclaimed author Diana Wynne Jones. Here are seven tales -- seven doorways to bizarre, yet strangely familiar worlds -- to transport...
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
| Author | Lawrence Block |
| ISBN | 0060731443 |
Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It's been an entire year since he's entered anyone's abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord's threat to increase Bernie's rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back...
The Baron ran a gambling island off the Texas coast in the Gulf’s blue waters. To Parker, it was just a floating crap game with class. To the Big Boys, it was competition they couldn’t stomach. They wanted a specialist to rob the Baron blind, pluck him like a chicken, and burn this paradise island into...
| Author | Peter Ackroyd |
| ISBN | 0749386258 |
I own a complete works of Milton. While I have read, thanks to a graduate course in Milton, the best thing I can say about Milton is this: It is heavy enough to kill someone so I don’t have to risk damn to any of my three complete works of Shakespeare.
I’ll admit my view of Milton comes partly from...
| Author | Kinky Friedman |
| ISBN | 0970238320 |
Who would have thought that Kinky Friedman, yes that Kinky Friedman writes books! He has written more than 15 mysteries and some non-fiction, for more than 20 books total.
For a news junky like myself, I knew a bit about him although I’m not from or live in Texas. (However, I did live there for...
