Awp Books: 21 books

  A city that never sleeps needs a detective with insomnia... When a nineteen-year-old girl disappears, and the cops won't help, her mother turns to disgraced ex-cop Clarke Lantham. Lantham hates family squabbles, teenagers, and clients who lie. But when the bill collectors scream even...

Writer's face infinite possibilities--and hard decisions. To succeed, you must understand business from the point of view as a businessperson, not an employee. This concise volume guides you through the transition from thinking like an employee to thinking like an author-entrepeneur, and gives you the tools you need to  grow your fiction writing from a hobby to a life-sustaining career.

Mystifying. Frightening. The perfect medium for murder, mayhem, martyrdom, and mastery. A research nightmare, a continuity minefield, firearms in fiction spells frustration for writers everywhere. But no more. Written by two veteran shooters, Throwing Lead gives you the low-down on firearms. From...

When it comes to raw-deal Christmas presents, you can't beat being thrown in an out-of-state jail on a trumped up charge—but detective Clarke Lantham can't resist a morbid challenge. So when he calls up his brother for help with bail, he steels himself for the ordeal of spending a holiday weekend...

—Revised, Updated, and Expanded for Today's Rapidly Evolving Audio World— Delivered in a witty, easy style by multiple-award nominated producer J. Daniel Sawyer, Making Tracks gives you the lowdown on today's audiobook landscape--now revised and expanded for today's marketplace. From narrative...

Good neighbors make good victims... When ten-year-old Teddy Stride opened a junior detective agency, he wanted to impress the professional down the street. He didn't worry about the competition, he just wanted to make sure his detective agency wouldn't cause any problems with the man he idolized....

An early morning phone call from law enforcement? Never a good sign in Clarke Lantham's world—but for a private detective desperate to make ends meet, a government paycheck for a measly three hour delivery job couldn't come at a better time. Playing postman might be a little beneath a PI's pay grade,...

High in the desert, between the mountains out west, up where the ground throbs from the nuclear test detonations, the casinos still glitter, drawing people from the far reaches of the world. They come here to try their luck, to take a chance, to have the adventures they wouldn't write home about. In...

No secret stays buried forever.. When Nya Thales started her basement remodel, she expected a good hard project. But when an accidental exhumation gets her a chance at solving one of the biggest unsolved crimes in California history, her only hope for claiming an FBI reward lies in the fears of her neighbors, the memories of the survivors, and the secrets buried beneath her floorboards.

Along came a spider and killed the insider... According to the official story, Martin Galloway shot himself in front of two cops. But his bereaved fiancee smells a rat, and when the system fails her, she turns to Clarke Lantham Investigations to prove that Martin was murdered. At stake: the...

A detective with insomnia chases every cop's worst nightmare... When a security guard disappears with a priceless Martian meteorite belonging to the Chinese government,  and surveillance tapes show a commando team of gray aliens making the snatch, a surly security chief turns to the only agency...

Death begins at home... The Milky Way. Sixty thousand light years across. A hundred billion planets to explore. Most of them out of reach, even of the Mannix-Alcubierre Warp Drive. In 2235, Earth's few well-worn neighbors brim with colonists and terraformers. Humanity now faces the final limits...

  "Includes one of my favorite Steampunk shorts of all time..." -Gail Carriger, New York Times Bestselling author of The Parasol Protectorate The author of The Antithesis Progression and The Clarke Lantham Mysteries brings you delicate, humorous, and brutal visions of a future...

Two X-chromosomes. One Surfboard. All Man. The author of The Antithesis Progression brings you a short novel of long odds. Climbing Olympus Mons put him on the map. Winning a gold medal in asteroid jumping got him great press. Children everywhere tune into watch every time he skydives...