Books published by Smart House Books

The final book of The Carnivore Trilogy takes place in April 2005, the month Karol Wojty¿a died and Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI. Michael and Lamy travel to Rome for the investiture and flush out Michael's mysterious doppelganger, Bartolomeo Vespucci.

A few short weeks after the horror of 9/11 Michael Davenport, an English journalist employed by the occult magazine Enigma, returns to America for the first time since nearly losing his life in the seamy drug wars of Ciudad Juarez to investigate an obscure report. Since his boss had thrown that copy of Al Jazeera across his desk Michael had become obsessed by a story about two salvage workers who had seen something decidedly unusual emerging from the rubble of Ground Zero twenty-six days after the towers fell. A mirage most probably. A figment of over-tired imaginations. A wisp of smoke or some kind of silly American gag. Very unlikely to be of any serious political consequence but there was just the slimmest possibility that it might be something, or someone, beyond our ordinary human world.

In her conversational, wholly irreverent voice, Eve Crawford's creative memoir, "I Paint Gophers!" traces her chaotic years growing up in a family of four unruly girls, with a mother who would rather be teaching birth control in India (if only she could mutter the word penis) and a father, the lone male of the pack, who yearns for World War 2 when, as a lieutenant in the navy, people followed his orders. It follows her life as an actor as she balances her career as the Where's Waldo of film with the daunting challenge of raising two boys as a single mom. Her hilarious stories both amuse and cut to the heart with an approach to life that is robust and full of love.

The voice of the young generation, Bullies Inc. is a dark comedy that pushes the boundaries of political correctness. Dolph, our teen protagonist, sets out to rectify the wrongs committed by bullies by recruiting others to take part in retribution against the culprits.