Art Is Everything Northwestern University Press. 2021 In her funny, idiosyncratic, and propulsive new novel, Art Is Everything, Yxta Maya Murray offers us a portrait of a Chicana artist as a woman on the margins. L.A. native Amanda Ruiz is a successful performance artist who is madly in love with her girlfriend, a wealthy and […]

Art Is Everything
Northwestern University Press.
2021

In her funny, idiosyncratic, and propulsive new novel, Art Is Everything, Yxta Maya Murray offers us a portrait of a Chicana artist as a woman on the margins. L.A. native Amanda Ruiz is a successful performance artist who is madly in love with her girlfriend, a wealthy and pragmatic actuary named Xochitl. Everything seems under control: Amanda’s grumpy father is living peacefully in Koreatown; Amanda is about to enjoy a residency at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and, once she gets her...

Doctors and Monsters
Morgan Hobbs.
2021

While chief surgeon Derek Benway entertains the hospital’s wealthiest donors at a lavish wine and cheese party, a tactic proven to loosen the purse strings, his beautiful blond drug-rep wife Susan makes the rounds of the surgical suites and break rooms doling out product samples. At the party, the suave and sophisticated Dr. Benway circulates the room with a platter of hors d’oeuvres, topping off glasses and trumpeting the virtues of Beverly Hospital. He has them literally eating of his hand...

The Josiah Reynolds Mysteries Box Set (Books 7-12)
Worker Bee Press.
2020

DEATH BY HAUNTING Terrence Bailey awakes to find his mother-in-law standing in a corner. However, his mother-in-law has been dead for seven years. Weeks later Terrence dies of a heart attack, or does he? Josiah thinks his death is connected to a renowned portrait artist who’s in the Bluegrass to paint Lady Elsmere’s portrait. Josiah noses around. What she finds will involve Detective Goetz and almost get her daughter, Asa, shot. Josiah blames the black earth of Kentucky for spitting back...
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