It was a simple plan. Almost fool proof. Getting involved was an easy decision. What could possibly go wrong? But something did of course go wrong. Things got a bit more coomplicated and the plan less simple. And then, step by step by step, the simple planners got in deeper and deeper and deeper. A simple plot. Many writers have tried it, very few have carrier it off nearly as well as Scott Smith did in A Simple Plan.
“Spectacular. . . . Ten shades blacker and several corpses grimmer than the novels of John Grisham. . . . Do yourself a favor. Read this book.” —Entertainment Weekly
Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane–the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these ordinary men all agree to a simple plan.
I didn't expect to like A Gentleman in Moscow nearly as much as I did. I'm not a gentleman. I don't really care about gentlemen, and I'm generally not all that sympathetic to the plight of the Russian aristocracy. Most of them had what they had because they were, in effect, slave owners.
Plus Rostov spent the book in a hotel. What could be less exciting--a prison without the normal drama and suffering of a prison? This book demonstrates what a great writer can do. To put the reader inside a world and a character, creating not just interest but wonder and even excitement built on a sympathy the reader might have never expected to feel. We're all human, after all. In the most important ways, we're all the same.
The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a major television series
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and…
The List is a thriller that almost anyone might enjoy. But as a writer it really hit home with me.
A struggling writer writes a book she feels has all the elements of a bestseller. Afraid that it might be largely ignored like her earlier books, she hires what she consider the perfect person to pretend to be the author. To the publisher and to the public. And of course it works.
My novel, "Legend," took two years to write. Then, with no track record, I couldn’t get a single agent to read it. Apparently a degree in literature meant nothing to literary agents. Nobody even asked about my grade point average. (Actually, nobody anywhere has ever asked about my grade point average.)
Later, as a successful professional speaker, agents called me asking to represent me. Editors told me they'd publish my next book and they didn't care what it was. It didn't matter if I could write. I had a platform.
A wickedly funny, dark humor. supernatural thriller, blending horror with a thrilling murder mystery.
“What a page turner! Witty, literate, scary, sexy, and powerfully evocative” -Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author.
It’s 1982. His name, Steve Witowski, is an alias. Once he was a counterculture hero. Now he’s a failed songwriter, running from the law. And he’s just become a killer, stumbling upon a woman being assaulted by what seemed to be the strongest, most blood-thirsty wino in California. Steve’s Life was already quite a few chuckles short of a load of laughs. And now, he’s stepped across a threshold he never knew existed. He should keep moving. But the woman, Victoria, is beyond stunning. Oddly, she’s recently bought a decrepit old church with a blood-soaked history. Steve stays. Even as the face of the man he just killed materializes on his arm: And Victoria becomes just a part of a mystery he can’t unravel. Even as he’s looting the decomposing dead for the secrets of a self-proclaimed sorcerer. And he’s trapped in a nightmare of fire, blood and death with the Ralph Lauren version of the Manson Family. The Sorcerer’s spells and rituals can’t actually work, of course. Until they do. And unknown to Steve, a demon is growing desperate. "An enormous amount of fun. Wholly fresh and original. Wickedly funny . . . The Great Dick is a hot, sweaty, magic- and murder-infused rollercoaster. . . I loved it." -David Moody, author of Hater and Autumn
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