Crown Publishing Group

A NovelRoland Merullo has consistently wowed critics with his brilliant storytelling and his refusal to be pigeonholed, hopscotching from the coming-of-age tale (In Revere, In Those Days) to the novel-as-fable (Golfing with God) to the road trip genre (Breakfast with Buddha). Now Merullo delivers a dazzling and finely nuanced political thriller...

A Novel"e;A smartly written romance, mystery and historical adventure all wrapped up in a page-turner that will have you guessing until the very end."e; Adena Halpern, author of The Ten Best Days of My Life Three years after her husband Max's death, Shelley feels no more adjusted to being a widow than she did that first terrible day. That...

A NovelWashed-up movie star Jack Palms is knee-deep in a Bay Area drug war and itll take the performance of a lifetime to get him through it alive. In the three years since Jack Palms left Hollywood and kicked his drug habit, hes added fourteen pounds of muscle, read eighty-three books, and played it as straight as anyone could reasonably ask. But...

A Jackson Donne NovelEven generations later, you can't escape. . .the evil that men do.Stripped of his private investigators license and slumming it as a night security guard at a Jersey storage facility, Jackson Donne thinks hes finally hit rock bottom. Then the bottom really falls out: The sister he hasnt seen in years shows up, needing...

A NovelLondon, 1893. Elderly Mrs. Bentley is on her deathbed, and her son Robert has returned from France. But in the Bentleys well-appointed home, everyone has their secrets, including Roberts beautiful and elusive wife, the orphan maid she hires from the country, and the mysterious young woman who arrives, claiming to be the bride of Roberts...

Jean Shepherd was one of Americas favorite humorists, his most notable achievement being the creation of the indefatigable Ralphie Parker and his quest for a BB gun in the holiday classic A Christmas Story. But he was so much more, a comic Garrison Keillorlike figure whose unique voice transcended the airwaves and affected a whole generation of...