Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, is releasing The Dog Park Club in 2009. The sequel, Barbary, is scheduled to come out in 2010. Please buy them both — often!
The Dog Park Club:
A noir tale of dogs, murder, and purple fleece jackets.
Max Bravo is vain, arch, brittle, and bored. His opera career has stalled out on the mid-tier. His hobby — debauchery — has become routine. And there's not enough fairy dust in the world to change the fact that, after a thirty-year adolescence, Max is finally middle-aged. But when Max becomes enmeshed with the eccentric regulars at a Berkeley dog park, he finds himself swept along into a bumbling, keystone chase to corner the murderer of a beautiful and beguiling young woman.
Read an excerpt from The Dog Park Club
Barbary:
Just how dead do you get when you jump off the Golden Gate Bridge?
After his unsettling experience in The Dog Park Club, Max Bravo decides he's ready for a quiet spell. But, being Max, he won't get it. An old friend takes a leap off the Golden Gate Bridge. The jumper, F.J. Kelly, was a failed writer and an accomplished hothead. Max acquires Kelly's journal. The further he reads, the deeper he's pulled into Kelly's world. Max is soon following the dead man through a foggy landscape of artistic manias, romantic intrigues, and, along the way, meeting a retinue of crackpots, bohemians, and Barbary ghosts.
Read an excerpt from Barbary