From the author of Mystic River comes a tough, taut collection of short stories, each exploring big crimes in small towns...No one writes such edgy material with so much style.

Coronado is a collection of short stories, exquisite fragments with jagged edges and raw emotions.

Vintage Lehane, complete with the gallows humour.

A brilliant, insightful and intriguing literary voyage.

His ability to create crystal clear portraits of humanity and then place them in the darker side of life is a writer's true gift'

...a writer of commanding gifts, who seems poised on the threshold of even greater accomplishment

You should buy this book

Dark, funny and disturbing

These 10 inventive stories, set mostly in the Florida Everglades, mix satire and sophisticated whimsy

Karen Russell has produced an engaging debut. Her ability to integrate mythology and the supernatural with the very contemporary...is reminiscent of Angela Carter, but unlike Carter's many imitators, Russell never descends into whimsy... In St Lucy's, humans, ghosts and animals are utterly real; and Russell sells the genuine article, a seemingly effortless writer

These are stories that will sneak into the back of your brain and lurk there long after you are finished reading.

Poignant and wonderful story...concentrates, without effort, all Malouf's themes...it needs to be read