It was a one-way ticket out of his self-imposed isolation and into the courtroom on the right side of justice. It was a favour for his old friend Judge Horace Woolner. It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to serve as special prosecutor in a case against a man sworn to uphold the law, Marshall Goodwin, the chief deputy district attorney accused of having his former wife murdered. It was an opportunity Joseph Antonelli couldn't walk away from.
But Antonelli is walking into more than he bargained for. The Goodwin case renews his appetite for the practice of law, and although Antonelli is determined to remain on the side of justice, there are many shades between right and wrong. And Antonelli may be over his head when Russell Gray, an urbane, worldly, and wealthy man from a prominent Portland family, is found murdered in his living room. Horace Woolner's wife stands accused of the crime. With justice and love on the line, the stakes couldn't be higher. In his stunning look at our legal system and our hearts, D. W. Buffa delivers on the promise of The Defense and takes us into the dark recesses of our courtrooms and our souls, where there are no easy answers.

Super sports agent Alexander Drouhin, a handsome, ruthless, slick lawyer, and his motley support team inhabit a cut-throat world obsessed with money, fame and power, so when Drouhin is found with a couple of .44 slugs in his head, there is no shortage of suspects. By the time Lt Francis Clay arrives at the crime scene, it appears that everyone has an alibi and no one has a clue. More than a detective story, The Agent, is an unrelenting examination of a world in which no outrageous amount of money is ever enough and there is more to the game than just scoring points. George V Higgins, master of the literary thriller, turns his eye for detail and ear for dialogue to the seamy underside of the high powered, high dollar world of sports agenting.

'No one writes better police procedurals than Higgins ... a powerful screed against greed; above all, and always, he is a moralist. The Agent resonates because it's an angry book, and the author's real subject is paradise lost' Boston Globe
'As the detective gets his interviewees to talk, we spiral slowly closer to the truth in a flood of Boston English. It's glorious, boastful Higgins-talk - no one pours, drips and spatters words onto the page like George V, the Jackson Pollock of banter' San Francisco Chronicle
'Higgins is my favourite. No, he doesn't learn from me, I learn from him' Elmore Leonard
'He is still the best' John Grisham

Stiles Island is a wealthy and exclusive enclave separated by a bridge from the Massachusetts coastal town of Paradise. James Macklin sees Stiles Island as the ultimate investment opportunity: all he needs to do is invade the island, blow up the bridge, and get to work. To realise his investment, Macklin, along with his devoted girlfriend, Faye, assembles a crew of fellow ex-cons - all experts in their fields - including Wilson Cromartie, a fearsome Apache. James Macklin is a bad man - a very bad man. And Wilson Cromartie, known as Crow, is even worse. As Macklin plans his crime, Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone has his hands full. He faces romantic entanglements in triplicate: his ex-wife, Jenn, is in the Paradise jail for assault; he's begun a new relationship with a Stiles Island realtor named Marcy Campbell; and he's still sorting out his feelings for attorney Abby Taylor. When Macklin's attack on Stiles Island is set in motion, both Marcy and Abby are put in jeopardy. As the casualties mount, it's up to Jesse to keep both women from harm.

'Nobody does it better than Parker' The Sunday Times
'Filled with light, shade, texture and complexity, Trouble In Paradise is the work of a master' Boston Globe
'If you want non-stop action, awesome characters and overall kick-ass entertainment you need to read Parker' Janet Evanovich

'Richly atmospheric, haunting, utterly compelling, the Lew Griffin novels are Magnificent. James Sallis is an outstanding Crime writer - an outstanding writer period' Frances McDormand

Long Legged Fly - There are those who vanish into the steaming New Orleans night - and it is part-time Private Investigator and blues aficionado Lew Griffin's job to find them. A prisoner of the bottle, his past and his skin, Griffin knows every hidden corner of hell. But the disappearance of a militant woman activist is about to carry the brilliant, tormented black PI ever closer to a nightmare that threatens to hit him where he lives ... and more brutally than he ever imagined possible.

Moth - One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin's dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, La Verne Adams is dead - and her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers ... leaving behind a crack-addicted infant and a mystery. Now an inescapable obligation to an old friend is drawing the tormented black ex-PI to danger like a moth to a flame. And there will be no turning back when his history comes calling and the dying begins again.

'James Sailis is a superb writer' - The Times

Jack Flippo is a reluctant shyster with a girlfriend whose idea of a fashion icon is Johnny Cash and who displays a family of inflatable adult dolls in her living room as an artistic statement. It is just Flippo's luck to stumble upon Marty Dufrain, the owner of a few frames of B & W film, a rumoured counterpart to the infamous Zapruder home movie, that might show an 'umbrella man' or second gunman firing at President Kennedy from the grassy knell.
Trying to ascertain if this film exists or not he enlists the help of an ex-friend, homicidal con artist making a buck off assassination recreations while keeping his enemies, an oxygen dependent hit man and his cognitively challenged sons-in-law, at bay.
Umbrella Man is a comic caper worthy of Carl Hiaasen or Elmore Leonard but with a uniquely Texas twist.

'Doug Swanson does Dallas the way Robert Parker does Boston - from the bottom up' Carl Hiaasen
'You definitely want to be in Dallas when Jack Flippo's on a case' The New York Times

Woodrell is a marvellous writer Roddy Doyle

In small Ozark towns like West Table, Missouri, what you are is where you're born and in Venus Holler what you are isn't much. For Bev Merridew who can turn a trick as easily as roll a joint, life in Venus Holler is tolerable. For her 19 year old and angry daughter, a life like Bev's isn't good enough. Jamalee Merridew with her tomato red hair and her barely suppressed rage has plans and they don't include Venus Holler or especially Bev. In fact they depend on her drop dead beautiful brother, Jason, the object of adoring libidinous attention from every West Table female. Jamalee thinks he's her ticket out. But Jason may just be the country queer and in the hills and hollows of the Ozarks that is about the most dangerous and also the most courageous thing a man could be. Into their midst comes Sammy Barlach, a man with too many file numbers on his record who's is passing through West Table on the way to nowhere, looking to be a loser some place else. Jamalee thinks he might just be the muscle she and Jason need. But Sammy is better at botched burglaries than security and when Jason turns up dead and the cops call it an accident even Bev is roused from her easy going acceptance of the system. Pooling their talents the misfit threesome set out to expose the solid citizens who thought it was no harm, no foul to kill a country queer...

Praise for Give Us A Kiss
"Woodrell alternates between reaming the language with a dry corncob and practising a particularly skilful kind of literary cabinetwork. Tongue in cheek (and most other orifices) he celebrates blood kin, home country and hot sex in this rich, funky, headshakingly original novel" E Annie Proulx
"Dan Woodrell can tell me stories any time. He can come to my house, pull up a chair on the porch, pour himself a long drink or whatever it is he's fond of, scratch my dog between the ears and let fly. I don't know that I'II let him around my wife and daughter, though, unless he's closely supervised." Pinckney Benedict