Neil Hetzner: 12 books

Everyone has a dream. For Giacomo Pasquale, the new don of a Brooklyn mob, it is to restore the financial glory of his gang by going into new businesses. For Pasquale’s disinherited gay son, Angel, it is to see his lover, Brice, starring on Broadway. For Mort Apple, a down-on-his luck theater producer,...

Although her responsibility is for Easter Europe, NSA satellite analyst Keely Krebs is studying images from Peru where her brother is prospecting for oil when she sees an anomaly that changes her life. Rather than do what the doctors tell her she needs to do to delay her death from lupus, Keely decides...

Newly sober alcoholic Jaxsie Duerile weaves sordid tales of drug abuse, sexual encounters, and a tortured family history in her sessions with buttoned-down psychologist John Willow. With each session, Willow becomes more obsessed with the bright, beautiful, broken, and, ultimately, maddening Jaxsie.

Two gay priests struggle to reconcile duty and desire. The choices they make over the course of twenty years ripple out, twisting them and those they touch into an ever more tangled web of secrets, betrayal, and revenge.

There’s turmoil on Albero Lane in Jefferton, Massachusetts.Cody Black, a once-esteemed writer who hasn’t published a novel in two decades, a writing professor who has trouble keeping his hands off his students, is waiting for Babette Carter, the love of his life, to become a widow. As he...

When Army Ranger Rainy Beausoliel returns from Afghanistan in a wheelchair, he just wants to be left alone. His bitter Vietnam vet grandfather, Big Petey, his high school buddy, Guy, who was a partner in a stupidity that cost Rainy a college basketball scholarship, and the Army, especially his rehab...

Artwork worth a half billion dollars at today’s prices was stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. Twenty years later, the paintings and drawings are still missing. Who robbed the Gardner? Where is the art?Marcie Sullivan thinks she may know. She suspects that Colby...

In the aftermath of 9/11, love gone awry in the 1940s comes full circle, uniting and re-uniting six intertwining lives. Disconnected explores the serendipity of our hates and loves, the resilience of our hearts, and the simple magic of mercy.

When her husband Bob dies, a man she loved but from whom she kept many secrets, Babette Carter is set adrift. Untethered from her marriage, she finds herself backtracking across her life as an author and college professor in New England to her childhood growing up poor and abused in the Midwest. Using...

A family is an organism. When Bett Koster, mother and grandmother, is diagnosed with breast cancer, she finds she must adapt some and discard other of the rules she has used to live her life for more than sixty years. As Bett makes the changes she needs to be able to fight for her life, her family...

When Gene Almsson is forced into retirement after more than thirty years traveling the country helping the poultry industry, he finds it hard to go from advising wealthy people and earning their praise to doing dishes and finding ways to pass the time. He doesn't like his new life and he likes...

Why is everyone trying to kill Prissi Langue?It's 2097 and teens can fledge and grow wings as they go through puberty. Fifteen year old Prissi has been having fun flying, goofing with her BFF Nancy, and stirring up arguments with her NQB (not quite boyfriend) Joe Fflowers. Despite her...