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November Road
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2018
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The Long and Faraway Gone
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2015
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Gutshot Straight (Shake Bouchon, #1)
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2009
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Whiplash River (Shake Bouchon, #2)
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2012
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Double Barrel Bluff (Shake Bouchon, #3)
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“The past had power. The past was a riptide. That's why, if you had a brain in your head, you didn't go in the water.”
― The Long and Faraway Gone
― The Long and Faraway Gone
“That’s the problem with the world,” he said. “You save it today, and tomorrow it’s gone and gotten itself into trouble all over again. It’s like a Kardashian.”
― The Long and Faraway Gone
― The Long and Faraway Gone
“Sometimes the best lie was just the truth left to ripen on the branch too long.”
― The Long and Faraway Gone
― The Long and Faraway Gone
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Deborah J. Ledford
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"This Thursday, January 7, 6:30 p.m. First novel!
Lou Berney
Debut thriller writer Lou Berney will sign & discuss his first novel, Gutshot Straight (Harper; $24.99). A fast and funny caper in the tradition of Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, and the Coen Brothers, Gutshot Straight brings a fresh new talent into the crime fiction fold: Louis Berney. He’s already won raves for his short fiction collection The Road to Bobby Joe and Other Stories (“Rivals the work of contemporary hotshots T.C. Boyle and Ralph Lombreglia” —Chicago Tribune). With Gutshot Straight, Berney is “all in”—sure to win a fervent following with the story of “Shake” Bouchon, fresh out of prison and on the straight and narrow path… after maybe just one last job.
This debut crime novel is highly recommended by Anne & David!
Lou Berney is an accomplished writer, teacher, and liar. He has written feature screenplays and created TV pilots for, among others, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Focus Features, ABC, and Fox. He is the author of The Road to Bobby Joe, a collection of stories, and his short fiction has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, New England Review, Ploughshares, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He has taught at the University of Oklahoma, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and in the MFA program at Saint Mary's College in California. Gutshot Straight, his first novel, was written during the 2007-2008 film and TV Writers Guild strike."
Have a great time at MBTB. The staff is the best!

Best,
Lou