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Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction

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Urban Waite is the author of The Terror of Living, named one of Esquire's Ten Best Books of the year. His latest book is The Carrion Birds, an Indie Next Pick and the recipient of starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. His short fiction has appeared in the Best of the West anthology, the Southern Review, and other journals. He has degrees from the University of Washington, Western Washington University, and Emerson College. He lives in Seattle with his wife.


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Average rating: 3.50 · 507 ratings · 153 reviews · 10 distinct works · Similar authors
The Terror of Living
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The Carrion Birds
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Dead If I Don't
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Don't Look Away
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Los Desaparecidos
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Then Came the Evening by Brian Hart
Then Came the Evening: A Novel
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Ray Lamar was a drug enforcer, a killer, but ten years ago it went bad, with the Juarez cartel, a rival to his boss, killing his wife and severely... "
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