"When Zip reaches adolescence, his genetically engineered brilliance, creativity, and health slips away and he becomes an absurdly fast, frenzied annoyance who can't focus or hold still. Unable to live with his parents or hold a normal job, he joins a group of outcasts like himself in Chicago. They do what they must to survive. After Zip is hired by a crime boss to deliver a package, staying alive suddenly requires every bit of speed and concentration...

A woman's murder in Chicago resembles a case years earlier in which the suspect was a policeman. Detective Dominick DiGrazia who handled that unsolved case hopes that this time he will nail the killer. A tale of good cop versus bad cop. By the author of A Matter of Honor.

Bound by the scandalous secrets of the past... and by the sexual hunger that still fuels their uncontrollable desires... Out-of-control party girl Elise Martin has come to Chicago to prove to the world that her life is truly worthwhile. But she never dreamed she'd find herself at the erotic mercy of the dynamic and wealthy Lucien Lenault, an irresistible enigma who renders women powerless and vulnerable... not to mention wholly insatiable....

"Upon his father's death, Phil Moony was the sole heir to the old man's two most precious possessions: his car and his cat. The not exactly pleasant cat is the source of some tension in the Moony household partly due to the fact that Phil's wife, Frankie, is desperately allergic to him. When the animal is stolen from the veterinarian's office, Phil is determined to find the thief."--Jacket.

This is a a little book about a sensitive, young Irish Catholic in the 1920s trying to go to school, make a living and find a girl to fall in love with.

A timeless story about a young man's need to find comfort and a sense of belonging, as well as a stunning portrait of the class and racial tensions that pervade our society, "American Skin" "is the American story American literature is not complete without. ... Full of images and humor and action and questions" (Carolyn Chute, author of "The Beans of Egypt, Maine."

"Fortnight on Maxwell Street is a reluctant hero's journey of fear and courage set in Chicago in the early spring of 1968. Medical student Nick Weissman spends two weeks delivering babies in the kitchens and bedrooms of the inner-city's slum tenements. Over his head medically, and unprotected in one of America's most dangerous neighborhoods, his character and resourcefulness are tested in the extreme when Chicago violently erupts after the murder...

A killer is on the loose in Chicago murdering and mutilating women. Psychiatrist Susan Shader, who has the gift of second sight, is enrolled by police to capture him, an assignment which puts her life in danger.

It's election season in corrupt Cook County, Illinois - where the dead vote on who lives and who dies...A skeleton's hand spills out of an abandoned grain silo, aiming an axe at the candidate fro US senate. A Heavily-disguised woman hires Chicago private investigator Dek Elstrom to head west to find men with no pasts - and one with no present. While he's away, someone dead comes calling to fraom him for murder. A sheriff's deputy wants Dek arrested....

"It's the fall of 2016. Cate, a set designer in her early forties, lives and works in Chicago's theater community. She has stayed too long at the fair and knows it's time to get past her prolonged adolescence and stop taking handouts from her parents. She has a firm plan to get solvent and settled in a serious relationship. She has tentatively started something new even as she's haunted by an old, going-nowhere affair. Her ex-husband, recently booted...