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list price: $19.95
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
category: Fiction
published: Oct 2015
ISBN:9781550816136
publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd.

One Hit Wonders

by Patrick Warner

tagged: black humor, crime
Description

LIla is dead. And the likely suspects are all men: her flash-in-the-pan literary husband, a washed up golf pro turned criminal with a cocaine habit, and two small-time thugs looking for the perfect score. As a crime novel for a new age, this is sex, drugs, and a story that unfolds as a map of bad intentions. In One Hit Wonders, Patrick Warner weaves an energetic tale that is part caper and partmurdermystery—relentlessly satiric, brutally funny, and obsessively readable

About the Author

Patrick Warner was born in Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Ireland in 1963 and emigrated to Canada in 1980. He studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland, completing a conjoint BA in Anthropology and English and later obtaining an MLIS degree from the University of Western Ontario. He currently resides with this wife and daughter in St. John's where he is employed as a Librarian at the Queen Elizabeth II Library. His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous publications.

Awards
  • Winner, IPPY Awards, Gold Medal, Best Regional Fiction, Canada-East
Editorial Reviews

"This is a novel about story-making, about empathy and where it can take us." -See the full review here: http://picklemethis.com/2016/01/17/one-hit-wonders-by-patrick-warner/

— Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This

“One Hit Wonders,” Patrick Warner’s second novel (and as a poet he’s produced four collections), is a thriller along the noir/hard-boiled school — gritty, wry and violent, and beguiled by a femme fatale."

— Joan Sullivan, The Telegram

"One Hit Wonders is a sexually charged and drug-fuelled romp through a truer modern St. John’s than those romanticized tourism ads.”

— The Overcast

"One Hit Wonders is a novel about contemporary issues in contemporary St. John's, written for contemporary readers of the city and beyond. It is a story that keeps you guessing, analyzing, investigating, and turning page after page looking for answers and clarifications."

— Newfoundland and Labrador Studies Journal
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