The Organ Grinders

10 best books like The Organ Grinders (Bill Fitzhugh): A Greater Monster, Chainsaw Cop Corpse, Let's Put the Future Behind Us, My Hero, Baja Oklahoma, Nevada Barr Presents Malice Domestic, Never Mind Nirvana, Cycle of Violence, The Fandom of the Operator, Monster Town

AuthorDavid David Katzman
ISBN0983864403
A psychedelic fairytale for the modern age, A Greater Monster is the mind-bending second novel by the author of the acclaimed Death by Zamboni. This darkly poetic tale takes you on a trip into a radically twisted alternate reality that reflects civilization like a funhouse mirror. Along the way, you'll...
Chainsaw Cop Corpse
AuthorWol-vriey
ISBN0615731287
Simon is having a bad fucking week. When you’re a D.C. Detective, every week is a bad week, but this week has been a BAD freaking week.

For starters, some psychopath has been murdering people, stealing their body parts and smearing their corpses with peanut butter.

To make matters...
AuthorJack Womack
Former bureaucrat Max Borodin is one of Moscow's most successful businessmen. He strolls through the wreckage of today's Russia with ease - convincing people to do his bidding, providing its citizens (both friends and clients) with the luxury goods they covet, and generally leading a prosperous...
AuthorTom Holt
ISBN1857233875
Writing novels? Piece of cake, surely ... or so Jane thinks.
Until hers start writing back. At which point, she really should stop. Better still, change her name and flee the country. The one thing she should not do is go into the book herself. After all, that's what heroes are for. Unfortunatly, the...
AuthorDan Jenkins
ISBN0689111738
Dan Jenkins' second best-known novel, Baja Oklahoma, features protagonist Juanita Hutchins, who can cuss and politically commentate with the best of Jenkins' male protagonists. Still convincingly female, though in no way dumb and girly, fortyish Juanita serves drinks to the colorful crew patronizing...
AuthorNevada Barr
ISBN1585472220
Contents:

Introduction - Nevada Barr
"The Tell-Tale Tattoo" - K. K. Beck
"A Note of Note" - Simon Brett
"People Who Sit in Glass Houses" - Susan Dunlap
"Turnaround" - Carolyn Hart
"Acting Tips" - Melodie Johnson Howe
"A.B.C.D.E.A.T.H." - M. D. Lake
"The Sea Cave"...
AuthorMark Lindquist
ISBN0375757554
"Hip deep in music, Never Mind Nirvana is a telling inside view that perfectly captures the rhythms and sights of late-nineties Seattle."
— Peter Buck, guitarist of R.E.M.

Pete Tyler is at a crossroads. Eight years ago he dropped out of a seminal Seattle grunge band to try his hand at a...
AuthorColin Bateman
ISBN1559703784
Marked by Colin Bateman's signature blend of sinister violence and sidesplitting dialogue, Cycle of Violence is the story of Miller, Belfast's bicycling journalist, and his "cycle of violence", on assignment to Crossmaheart, a post-terrorist ghetto where the preferred response to bone-chilling...
The Fandom of the Operator
AuthorRobert Rankin
ISBN0552148970
'To call Rankin irreverent doesn't begin to describe just how good he is at playing with the rules' MIRROR

Gary Cheese is twenty-two years of age and works for British Telecom as an operator. Gary's hobbies include watching TV, walking his dog Princey, going down the pub with his mates, and attempting...
Monster Town
AuthorBruce Golden
ISBN1786361191
Private Investigator Dirk Slade is looking for the killer of his best friend, as well as a missing teenager who just happens to be the son of Dracula. Along the way he encounters the Wolfman, Frankenstein’s monster (plus his former bride), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Leech Woman, the Invisible Man, Wasp...
Cat in a Neon Nightmare
AuthorCarole Nelson Douglas
ISBN0765345927
Cat in a Neon Nightmare is the fifteenth Midnight Louie mystery, and this tough-talking tomcat is as feisty as ever, raising hell (sometimes literally) in Las Vegas, America's Sin Capital.

The lavish hotels and the sham of wholesome fun may soothe the tourists, but sex and greed still fuel...
AuthorTim Dorsey
ISBN0060829672
Welcome to another typical summer in Florida, the season of the storms. Serge storms.

That lovable, under-undermedicated dispenser of truth, justice, and trivia is back with a vengeance. And not a weirdness-laced moment too soon.

His cherished home state is about to take a beating,...
Florida Straits
AuthorLaurence Shames
ISBN0440215110
Joey Goldman's flying south for the winter. The second-string New York wiseguy just packed up his faithful girlfriend Sandra and took off for Key West -- land of sun, surf and sleaze -- where a small-time hustler in search of a racket can score the big one. If he can find it. Enter Joey's half brother Gino....
AuthorKinky Friedman
ISBN0970238339
From the second page:
"I called Kelly, my travel agent, and told her I was going on a trip.
'Is it business or pleasure?' she asked.
'I'm going to Cleveland,' I said."

That sets the tone for the rest of the book. The wisecracks come hard and often, two or three on every page, probably...
Murder at Rudhall Manor
AuthorAnya Wylde
A Humorous Murder Mystery

A murder and a theft have been committed at Rudhall Manor. A box of jewels has vanished and Lord Sedley, a lusty old aristocrat, has been stabbed six times in the chest.
It is all very mysterious, and the Sedley family and the servants have decided that Miss Lucy Anne...
AuthorJames W. Hall
Paramedic Shaw Chandler knows Miami's nitty-gritty all too well. But when a routine suicide call uncovers his long-lost father, it's anything but routine-and it appears it's anything but suicide. Then Shaw's mother falls victim to financial fraud, leaving Shaw with no choice but to return home to...
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