Kittling: Books

  Containing the novellas Mr. Harrigan's Phone , The Life of Chuck , If It Bleeds , and Rat .   Of the four novellas in this collection,...

  First Line: Catherine tapped the brakes and turned into a street filled with SUVs, black-and-white police cars, yellow and red lights flas...

First Line: A convenience store is a world of sound.   Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura has never "fit in", has never felt normal eve...

First Line: Cardinal Richelieu and the Mikado stepped out on a narrow balcony overlooking the entrance to Seven Oaks, lighted their cigarett...

First Line: It's a cliché, I know, but it really did start with a telephone, an empty desk and a generous new police commissioner, givin...

First Line: I was the one who found the house . British folk group Windhollow Faire needs to put together their second album, so manage...

First Line: He was hungry and thirsty, frightened, and weary to the marrow . The local investigation into the discovery of the bleached...

First Line: My father's first car was a 1971 Ford Fairlane, which my grandfather gave him when he turned fifteen . A low fog called...

First Line: When you're told that your dying father has something important to say to you before he passes, two feelings flash throug...

First Line: There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs . Twe...

First Line: She knelt on the window-sill, looking out over the sea . Lanzarote, the strangest and wildest of the Canary Islands. In 187...

First Line: There is a canyon in the heart of Wyoming carved by a river called Wind and a narrow, opposing, two-lane highway that follows...

First Line: There is such a thing as hunger for more than food, and that was the hunger I fed on . Do wn-on-his-luck young artist Eben ...

First Line: " Well, it just doesn't seem right, that's all. Arresting somebody on Christmas Eve. " It's shaping u...

First Line: When Sheriff Joanna Brady's distinctive rooster ring tone jarred her awake at oh-dark-thirty in the morning, she grabbed ...