Bøger af Tim Bryant

Reminiscent of Don't Stop the Carnival-the Herman Wouk novel Jimmy Buffet liked so much-The Bird in Your Heart is the quirky tale of an Atlanta advertising executive, who divorces, loses his job, and returns to his family's ancestral home on a South Carolina sea island. He plans to sail off to see the world but his mother is going blind and the old place needs huge repairs. Low Country traditions, Gullah culture, and oddball island ways create a Low Coiuntry tangle described as "like a Sue Monk Kidd book and a Pat Conroy book had a baby and then THAT baby grew up and had a baby with a John Kennedy Toole book." Just right for beach, boat, and book club people.

What do you need to know about Upriver?Judd Jesup is back, fresh from his experience in Bywater. If you've read that book, you should be primed and ready for this one. It may also help if you have some knowledge of Storyville, the redlight district of late-nineteenth-century/early-twentieth-century New Orleans where jazz was born. Or if you've heard of Jelly Roll Morton. But if you know nothing on these subjects, don't worry. This trip will take you back to those days. Time, it seems, isn't at all what we think it is. Music, as Judd learns, is the real magic. And Storyville? Well, it just sounds like a place where stories are born.

From the depths of the Big Thicket, emerge five authors, drawn together by their passion for storytelling and their unique abilities to frighten innocent children and old women. Their Redneck Voodoo style of storytelling will carry you on journey through twelve tales, each written beneath the pines of East Texas.Inside this delightfully creepy collection of tales, readers will find the following twelve tales: Scarecrow Sheriff, Dog Murderer, and Blackbirds, by Tim Bryant. In the Forest, by Dawna Bowman Flowers. Flowers, by Blake Heath. A Teller of Quietus, and Wife in a Box, by David Lackey. Homeless Willie & the Pigeons of Fremont Street, The Medulla Oblongata Affair, Cat Police, Tacos of Doom, and Secret Santa, by Randy Porter.

Belenus Creagh, a real, authentic faery who originated in the countryside of Ireland, is a fan of American TV westerns. So much so that he has traveled through the Fairy Mound, arriving at the Caddo Indian mounds of East Texas. Finding Texas to be not quite like he anticipated, he begins to explore his surroundings, eventually settling in the small town of Keachi, Louisiana. There he befriends a young spirit named Lalari who almost gets him into more trouble than he can get out of. So that Lalari will have a playmate, Belenus agrees to kidnap a human child. He doesn't expect to be so moved, watching the child's single mother crying over her lost son on local TV. Belenus might be able to return the child and look like a hero. But things will never work out that easily.

When Artillery Conray Patton washes up on the bank of the Angelina River in 1958, it's both the end of a journey and the beginning of a story. It's one that stretches from the Civil War to the civil rights era, from the now-gone riverboat town of Pattonia, Texas to Senegal on the west coast of Africa. It takes a pretty big man to encompass that kind of span. Art Patton pulls it off and then some. There are skeletons and voices in Patton's past to be sure. But the real mystery is Art himself. Solve him, and the rest of the story follows.

There's different kinds of fire...William Randolph Packard Hearse... Dutch has his hand in at least two, maybe three kinds of fires. He's investigating the mysterious house-fire that left Fisher Pulaski in the city morgue without a single burn on him. Then there's the unknown man found burned to a crisp in a car on a desolate road. Nicknamed Bernie by the townspeople, word is he might have been with the mob. Then again, he might have been a cop.Dutch is also hired to capture an escapee from an area mental hospital, a man he knows all too well. Along the way, he decides to pull into Fast Mike's and trade his pickup truck for a Packard hearse. His friendship with Slant Face Sanders breaks down and may be irreparable, but his side hustle taxiing people around town in the hearse, christened William Randolph Packard Hearse, soon starts to pay dividends. He may be driving a glamor girl across nighttime Fort Worth, but it's Ruthie Nell that his heart burns for. And that may prove to be the most dangerous kind of fire of them all.

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