Bøger af Douglas Richardson

A Respectable Family Turns to a Life of CrimeForced into bitter and boring retirement solely because of advancing age, world-renowned architect Victor Harding retreats to his bucolic lakefront estate, a majestic house once owned by notorious Chicago gangster Bugsy Moran.He soon learns that his idyllic dream home is a house with astonishing secrets.After a series of family catastrophes and devastating financial setbacks, and now struggling to support his fractured family and hold on to his beloved house, Victor finds himself sucked into a life of crime. Trapped in a dangerous alliance with the treacherous leader of a local crime gang, he desperately seeks a way out.Then Bugsy Moran's legacy reveals startling surprises which thrust Victor Harding's life into increasingly bizarre and ever more dangerous directions.A gold standard in more ways than one...In this smart and stylish psychological thriller, the first in the Victor Harding Adventure Series by award-winning novelist Douglas Richardson, readers are pulled into the Harding family's life of high crimes and misdemeanors, well as the colorful characters' efforts to stay one step ahead of their pursuers...and stay alive.

Nothing in their life stories resembles yours, except their humanity and pathos. A carnival barker's worst nightmare brought to life: a compendium of freaks, physically and psychically scarred, seeking redemption and attention. Chloe Red and Kay Sutter, age and youth, guile and beguiling. H. Charles Branhoover and H. James Branhoover, each with a hand holding that of Death. Bernrd Red, firstborn son without a legacy, self-styled cooler, preppy hoodlum. Zachary R., failed chosen one, father and husband, benevolently misguided by an angel of sorts. From the rivers of Pittsburgh to the streets of New Orleans, cut-rate rooms in a Hollywood youth hostel and ashes floating on the depths of a bottomless lake, these American Strays enter and exit one another's lives, bringing justice and misery, humor and mercy, asking more questions than providing answers.

New and selected poems (2007-2014) by Los Angeles poet and novelist Douglas Richardson.

In The Corruption of Zachary R., book one in his American Strays series, Richardson tells the story of Zachary R.'s descent into psychosis and homelessness. In Trust Fund Baby, book two in the series, a homeless man is the last thing H. James "Jimmy" Branhoover ever sees. Who led Jimmy, a young man and the heir to his father's fortune, to such mysterious and tragic circumstances? Richardson goes back in time to Jimmy's early years, examining his relationships with his parents (the well-to-do and good-for-nothing banker H. Charles Branhoover and the former roughhouse prostitute Chloe Red); his childhood cohorts, the otherworldly Kay Sunday and the easygoing Innocent #2; the enigmatic Vander Stevenson; homeless man Charles Larson; and his estranged brother, Bernrd Red. Tragic, "[a]nd yet, so peculiar, charming, and hilariously funny," the American Strays will challenge and delight readers.