Love and Other Wounds: Stories

"[This] debut collection goes off like a shotgun blast of crime fiction tropes. . . . a tight, tough parcel of pulpy, high-octane tales." —Publishers Weekly

A man runs away from his grave and into a maelstrom of bullets and fire. A Hollywood fixer finds love over the corpse of a dead celebrity. A morbidly obese woman imagines a new life with the jewel thief who is scheming to rob the store where she works. A man earns the name "Mad Dog" and lives to regret it.

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