Bitingduck Press: 130 books

Betrayal, loyalty, shadows, light...in his world nothing is what it seems.French by birth, Laurence-Jacques Fournier has never considered himself as appertaining to a specific nation. Laurence is a free bird. He also runs an international mix of thieves, but not just common thieves. They are...

From the author: I find the small acts within my observation interesting enough to merit writing about. The little boy mending shoes by the roadside, the millionaire mill-owner who shows a rare form of kindness, birds who talk and beasts who dont find a place in my collection of vignettes. My questing...

When Matt Carlsberg is found dead in a cottage on Connor Beach, the police must find not only who killed him, but why. The investigation is conducted by Harry Chervenic, a detective with too much experience, and his sometime partner Mickie Wilder, young and ambitious. They find Matt's older brother,...

Dylan Crooke's known men like Charlie all his life - men with eager smiles and guaranteed get-rich schemes. But Dylan leaves his dark past behind, or so he thinks, when he moves to a sleepy NC coastal town. He's hardly unpacked when he becomes entangled in a murder, art theft, a revolutionary invention,...

The unusual thing about the collection Quite Contrary is the range of subgenre. Although these are all crime stories, each is vastly different in its approach to the crime. One story, "A Step Above The Beasts," borders on horror, following the actions of a highly ethical murderer. "Time, The Thief,"...

Dagny Taggart Jamison is a private investigator born on the day that Neil Armstrong took one small step for a man. Thirty years later, Dagny is taking small steps to regain her self-esteem, damaged by breast cancer and a lovers rejection. She is working for her brothers P.I. firm in Santa Barbara, California,...

Except Education describes what really happens inside of American public high schools. In these pages are the tales of the lawyers who “advocate” for students and threaten to sue any teacher who does not comply. There are also the lost autistic souls who are led from meeting to meeting by guilty...

Into the Light: The Photo League Years is a collection of black-and-white photographs by Sonia Handelman Meyer. This collection is based on the catalogue for an exhibit by the same title sponsored by the Hodges Taylor Gallery, September/October 2007 in Charlotte, NC.

During the 1940s Sonia Meyer...

Dark gray clouds had swallowed the rising sun, dawn outlining their ominous shapes in gold. And the sky…crimson red, the color of fresh blood. Nathalie's blood started to pound with excitement. She could almost taste it. Rain was coming. A storm.Physician Nathalie Arnaud is on her way home to San Francisco...

When Jenny Robinson's father dies of Huntington's disease, she tells her mother she will never marry out of fear that she might have inherited the disease.Jennys mother, filled with grief over her husbands death and guilt over secrets she never told her daughter, dies from an overdose of prescription...

Zelda Popkin solves her intriguing mystery with a female detective named Mary Carner. Death Wears a White Gardenia is the first of a series of mystery novels featuring young, and pretty Mary Carner, a trained investigator on the security staff of a major department store in New York City in the late...

Future Tense is the sequel to Tempus Fugit. It picks up exactly where the first book leaves off. Sloane now finds himself reunited with his girlfriend, Emma, at Duckworth Hall. It should be a time for love and celebration, but our heros hopes are soon dashed when hes devastated to find that Emma...

The dead too have hopes...

And among the hopeful dead is Alex Resartus: obtuse professor, obscure novelist, schizophrenic...and vampire.

As an obtuse professor, he bewilders and frustrates his bored students; as an obscure novelist with a once-promising reputation, he desires to recover his...

Flashback to 1991. Minnesota winters are long and cold, physics professors are all male, and information is found in the library?whether it's clues to a homework problem, how to fix a furnace, or skeletons in colleagues' closets.Lori Barrow has just turned 17, and she starts out her graduate...