Dark, Sinister & Macabre – Fiction

Ron Currie’s The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne follows the title character, a grandmother and crime boss in Maine whose empire begins to unravel when her daughter, Sis, goes missing and a sinister outsider arrives. When Sis is found dead, the whole town seeks shelter from Babs’ wrath as the story explores love, retribution, and the ancestral roots that both nurture and confine us. Brendan Slocumb’s The Dark Maestro: A Novel follows Curtis Wilson, a cello prodigy from the Southeast D.C. projects with a drug dealer named Zippy for a father. With the support of his father’s girlfriend, Larissa, Curtis achieves unimaginable success in the classical music world. But when Zippy turns state’s evidence, Curtis’ life disintegrates as he must give up what he loves the most.
Buy The Savage Noble Death of Babs Dionne – Currie
Buy The Dark Maestro: A Novel – Slocumb

Authors

DAN CHAON is the author of several books, including Ill Will, a national bestseller named one of the 10 best books of the year by Publishers Weekly; the national bestseller Await Your Reply: A Novel; Among the Missing: Stories, a finalist for the National Book Award; and others. His fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize Anthologies, and the O. Henry Collection. He was a finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors National Magazine Award in fiction and The Shirley Jackson Award, and was the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in literature. Chaon lives in Cleveland.

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