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On Night's Shore brings us deep into the troubled psyche of Edgar Allan Poe and the power struggle between the sleazy underbelly and the business elite of nineteenth-century New York City.

Standing on the grimy banks of the Hudson River, street urchin Augie Dubbins spots a young woman toss her baby into the water, then jump in herself. As the only witness to the tragedy, Augie sees an opportunity to make a few pennies recounting the events, and in doing so encounters a struggling young journalist named Edgar Allan Poe, a poet and newspaper hack whose penchant for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time has earned him more than a few enemies.

When the unlikely duo discover the body of yet another young woman shortly after, they become entrapped in a mire of murder, greed, and power that stretches from the Five Points slums to the gleaming heights of Fifth Avenue.Additional Praise for On Night's Shore:

"A riveting tale of murder and betrayal... On Night's Shore drips with descriptive power." -- New York Post

After the death of his beloved wife, a devastated Poe decides that a change of scenery is in order.He has been invited to Pittsburgh by a wealthy benefactor, Dr. Alfred Brunrichter, a man of intriguing contradiction who on the one hand was fascinated by subjects so macabre that even Poe did not wish to consider, while on the other hand was solicitous of Poe's comfort in every regard and was a local philanthropist and patron of the arts.Augie Dubbins, now a young man in search of adventure, joins Poe in order to keep an eye on his increasingly maudlin friend.After an exhausting journey across the length of Pennsylvania, their first glimpse of Pittsburgh is not a heartening one.The city, a tight triangle of enterprise squeezed between the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, is gray with factory smoke; its riverbanks clogged with barges, streamboats and freighters, choked with log rafts from the denuded forests farther north. It is at every turn a working-class city, gritty and rough.Moreover, the air of Pittsburgh reeks of death - a cholera epidemic has recently swept through the city, killing hundreds - and Poe and Augie soon learn the real reason behind the city's malaise.Several young females, all attractive women in their late teens, have disappeared over the past six months.All are of the merchant class - not among the cultural elite but not outright prostitutes either.With Poe almost incapacitated by the lavish attention of their host, Augie finds himself exploring Pittsburgh on his own and begins to investigate the killings. With great attention to period detail and utilizing all of his skill as a seasoned novelist, Randall Silvis once again crafts a wonderful historical thriller that will leave you gripping the edge of your seats. AUTHORBIO: RANDALL SILVIS is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter and essayist.He is the winner of the 1984 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, as well as numerous other literary awards, including two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and their two sons.

From the critically acclaimed author of the best-selling Ryan DeMarco Mystery series comes this collection of crime novellas and stories, Randall Silvis’s first collection since his The Luckiest Man in the World was awarded the 1984 Drue Heinz Literature Prize by Joyce Carol Oates.

These six short stories and the title novella—a Ryan DeMarco series prequel—brilliantly showcase the author’s compelling storytelling coupled with the deep characterization and exquisite prose for which he is known. Murderers, grifters, and other unsavory characters people these stories, but so too do those struggling to make the world a kinder and less dangerous place.

Praised by the New York Times Book Review as “a masterful storyteller,” Silvis once again demonstrates that he can write short fiction as hypnotic as his novels, and with a distinctive and versatile voice that marks him as one of the best writers at work today.

Известие о том, что где-то рядом затаился убийца, способно потрясти любую общину - и большую, и маленькую. Но когда этот убийца - один из хорошо знакомых вам людей... Тот, кому вы доверяли обучение своих сыновей и дочерей, тот, чье улыбчивое лицо видели во всех книжных лавках городка, тот, чьим успехом гордились и кому тихо завидовали... Почему Томас Хьюстон зарезал собственных детей и красавицу-жену? Что вынудило его совершить это? Расследованием занимается опытный профессионал Райан Демарко. Может ли он признаться коллегам, что прочитал все романы Хьюстона, а их первые издания с автографами автора стоят аккуратным рядком в его…

Кости семерых девушек, аккуратно очищенные и бережно сохраненные, были найдены много лет назад… Это все, что сержант Райан Демарко знает о нераскрытом деле, за которое ему придется взяться, пусть и не по своей воле. Но если Райан и уверен в чем-то, так это в том, что убийца всегда оставляет за собой следы. Нужен только человек, способный в них разобраться. Демарко не догадывается, что ему предстоит сражение не только с загадочным преступником, но и с демонами из собственного прошлого – грузом вины за гибель собственного сына и утраченный брак, тяжелыми воспоминаниями из детства и неспособностью открыть свои чувства даже самым близким…

The third book in the acclaimed Ryan DeMarco mystery series finds DeMarco returning to Erie, Pennsylvania after his estranged wife attempts suicide and beginning an investigation into three recent murders in a nearby Ohio town that may be related to a cold case dating back to DeMarco's high school days.

"RIVETING...COMPELLING...Silvis engages the reader from first word to last.
--Los Angeles Reader
P.I. Ernest DeWalt snooped on two-timing spouses for twenty years until a hail of bullets knocked him out of the game. Whoever heard of a sleuth with bum kidneys? Denied such staples of gumshoe life as booze, salty food, and sex, Ernest DeWalt winds up teaching literature courses in a nearly comatose college town.
It's a life that the reclusive DeWalt has nevertheless snuggled into with reasonable comfort. Too bad fate won't just let this disillusioned sleeping dog lie. Too bad a fellow faculty member--in the throes of a fling with the sexy waitress wife of a small-time rock singer--ends up with a musket ball in his brain. And too bad it's so hard to say no to the dead man's wife, when she asks DeWalt to crawl out of his shell and bring his private-eye prowess into play just one more time....
"AN EXTRAORDINARILY LITERATE MYSTERY.
--The Washington Times
"An interesting puzzle packaged in superior prose, AN OCCASIONAL HELL is an absorbing and reflective read.
--The Mystery Review