Bøker av Stuart Matranga

This collection of short stories comes from the secret library of Don Masu Gaam, a relative of the author.

Fading movie star Royce Adair plans a comeback scheme after she receives threatening fan mail. She gets Betty Cibelli, a former private detective and current TV cop show writer, to investigate. But Royce's plot takes an unscripted and deadly twist when a real stalker finds her.

Twenty years after being convicted of killing his teammate, an ex-football star returns to his hometown to see justice done. Seeking revenge or redemption, he confronts the ghosts of his past; his teammates, their wives, the coaches, his mother, his ex-girlfriend, and his life-long enemy, the boy he supposedly murdered. Beneath the golden glory of the Golden Tornadoes' championship season lies the depthless swamp of human entanglements and a dim light of hope.

Only after he dies does Officer Michael Zuni begin to understand his life. Recruited by mysterious forces to find a missing boy, the ex-living ex-cop has one day to accomplish his mission,without succumbing to the overwhelming temptation to eat human brains. Naomi Stern, a firefighter he dated and ghosted, and who now feels physically sick in his presence, is the only living person who can help him.

Somerset Rose, an adolescent vampire with low self-esteem, searches for blood and love in New Orleans. He meets the mysterious Charlie and, instead of taking her blood, he gives her his heart in this comic-romantic-horror thriller. Somerset may be mad, bad, and dangerous to know, but sometimes even vampires fall in love with the wrong woman.

Towards the end of World War II, a Jewish professor is taken from a concentration camp and forced to help the Nazis find The Lion and The Lamb, a rare painting by Leonardo da Vinci. If he's successful, he and his family will be spared. But an Allied force also wants to steal the painting, worth a fortune. Amid the suffering and fighting of the war, two groups of thieves race to steal a symbol of peace.

This collection of fifteen short stories are romantic, fantastic, apocalyptic, tragic, comic, mythical, magical, and sometimes even realistic.