Bøker av John Peyton Cooke

The weird. The strange. The outré. AFTER YOU'VE GONE AND OTHER OUTRÉ TALES presents 10 stories of men and monsters, goths and ghouls, violence and vengeance ... and a touching tale of a boy and his dentist. These are all part of the world of John Peyton Cooke, best known for his dark thrillers TORSOS and THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER. Selections include: "After You've Gone," the original tale of the bad Samaritan, which was reprinted in BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2003; "A Doll's Tale," which reveals everything we ever wanted to know about demon dolls but were afraid to ask; "The Penitent," which shows what happens when an inventive sadist joins with an insatiable masochist; "The Strawberry Man," about two gay skatepunks in love and in thrall to the power of an addictive fruit; and "Serostatus," in which Tom, a middle-aged gay New Yorker and AIDS widow, finds himself spooked by the ghosts of tricks past; plus five other tales of the weird ... the strange ... the outré.

From the author of THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER and TORSOS comes a novel of a gay private eye working the mean streets of New York City's Chelsea circa 1998.... Greg Quaintance sports a Desert Storm tattoo, packs a Glock, and drives a Plymouth Barracuda, but only those who know him best see the wounds etched in his heart. As a P.I. in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, he is hired to thwart an extortion attempt aimed at Jimmy Gilbert, a billion-dollar man-child musical superstar accused of having sexual relations with a teenage boy. But when Gilbert's accuser turns up dead and the boy goes on the run, the bodies of the rich and not-so-famous start piling up. From the canyons of Manhattan to the halls of presidential power, Quaintance must now penetrate a minefield fused with greed, depravity, and violence.

Greg Quaintance, the gay and brooding private eye hero of John Peyton Cooke's THE RAPE OF GANYMEDE, returns to investigate a dark new mystery set in New York City, circa 1998.... When a distraught father hires Greg to find his missing son, Greg finds himself up to his neck in the world of the 1990s Goth club scene. But that's the least of his troubles. It's a case so bizarre, it might lead Greg to start believing in vampires.... Greg Quaintance, a Gulf War veteran with a Desert Storm tattoo, is no stranger to blood ... but only those who know him best see the wounds etched in his heart.