Bøger af Scott Tucker

Aron Ash and his girlfriend, Lisa Hardrow, are kindred spirits, living in Chicago and riding waves of manic creativity together with volatile crashes. After two years, however, she suddenly ends it and leaves him for New York, he believes, but he wakes up from a long, drunken night suspecting instead he has killed her and disposed of her body in Lake Michigan. An erratic journey follows, as seen through Aron's troubled psyche of contrast and contradiction, to the West Coast and back, as he tries to quiet his conscience and learn, or hide, the truth about Lisa and himself-all the while keeping one step ahead of a Chicago police detective stubbornly tracking him in connection with her reported disappearance.

After a man's family disintegrates around him, he goes about replacing them with a collection of strangers gathered from the streets.

Luke Distang, wanted by U.S. authorities for the murder of his addled mother, is hiding in plain sight in Paris as a street sweeper. Lacking the skills to assimilate, he relies on three troubled women for survival and companionship: a young sculptor; an Algerian radio dispatcher; and a teenage runaway. Meanwhile, a bounty hunter, Nikolas Zaro, has picked up Luke's trail and is intent on bringing him to justice. Luke's father was convicted of the murder in Luke's absence. When Zaro meets Luke, however, he begins to doubt he has the right man. French anti-terrorism police close in as well, based on their own misinformation. With pressure building, Luke is forced to confront serious matters of character: Is he capable of saving someone other than himself? Is Zaro an enemy or an alter ego? And how much of his own identity can he surrender before he ceases to exist altogether?

El Paso isn't much. Mike Allen can tell you that. The place took something out of him, though. The venereal disease he caught in high school. The beatings before that. The job at Nation Electronics. People came into that store, though. Surprising people. Or just one surprise, when Julie Marie Baker walked in one night out of the rain. Mike can tell you all about that.

Grant Ives is a teenager from Montana who is on the run with his problem-girlfriend, Liz. Bo Dutton is a struggling journalist in a failing marriage to Rita. Their neighbor, Mr. Alexander, a retired judge, has traveled the world but has reached the end of his days alone. When their lives intersect, disaster results and dreams die-leading authorities eventually to a woman in Seattle, Sophia Alexander, who must begin an urgent search for her missing husband before her own dreams die. This is a love story about the people we don't become, as we search for the one true version of our lives we want to live more than any other.

A collection of poetry and "dash fiction," sometimes telling an entire story on a fourth of a page while adding to a larger narrative in the process. The reader will do some of the work. The climate will be hot and humid. The rainy season is coming.

Life and death in Guinea, West Africa. These unvarnished short stories track a group of related characters as their lives interlock and separate, from the teeming slums of the capital city to the outside world and back, a portrait of survival, escape, and return to a place where people live in the moment because the moment is all they're ever sure of.

A story of attraction and disappointment between close neighbors, where crossing boundaries is sometimes welcomed and sometimes unforgivable. Kaylene and Marcus live in two small houses nearly joined at the eaves in a fading Seattle neighborhood. She has developed a mild case of voyeurism. He hides a troubled past, narrated incorrectly in her head. When disaster forces them to pool their few remaining resources, new debts arise between them, not well understood, the payment of which will change their lives forever.