Crown Publishing Group

A NovelI could never be a good father because I turned my back on being your son. Perhaps Teddy Mathison is right when he makes this heart-wrenching confession to his dying mother, but is it really too late? The touching and surprising answer unfolds in this richly layered, tender story of a man who is primed to go far in life, but first must find...

A Novel Without Pay, Perks, or PrivilegesJeffrey Reiner is a middle manager's dream.Predictable, almost invisible, and lacking ambition, he's held the same tedious job for eighteen years, typing up the calendar listings for a South Florida weekly. As the economy and the newspaper industry crashed around him, Jeffrey kept his head comfortably in the...

A NovelWinner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, the Agatha Award for Best First Novel, and the Mary Higgins Clark AwardWhen she sees what looks like a child tumbling from a ferry into frigid Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. When she gets the child to shore she discovers that his name is Paul, he speaks only Frenchand...

A NovelThere is a light and it never goes out . . . or is there?Welcome to the big Reagan 80s, where ketchup is a vegetable and the Cold War looms large and chilly. If like Joe Green you were coming of age during this boom era, your main concerns include one or more of the following: a rainbow assortment of Polo shirts worn with the collar flipped...

A NovelMY DAUGHTERS BOYFRIEND offers up the spicy tale of an impossibly tricky love triangle and marks the debut of a fresh and provocative new writer.Tracey Davenport was only seventeen when she had her daughter, Lauren, and has proudly raised her as a single mom. Now that Lauren is seventeen herself, Tracey is pleased to see that her daughter has...

A NovelSomething borrowed. Something blue. Do you really know the man to whom youre saying I do?Madison Mandelbaum is on top of the world. Shes got a loving though totally neurotic family, two fabulous girlfriends, and best of all, shes head-over-heels in love with Colin Darcy, an investigative reporter for NBC, a distant...