Dark Humor

From author Rupert Holmes comes a devilish thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of murder where earnest students study how best to “delete” their most deserving victim....

Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate....

Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him....

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book....

Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate; she works an easy job at a hip art gallery and lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side....

Drunk customers. Shoplifting raccoons. Otherworldly visitors. As night shift clerk at the 24-hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all....

Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems....

After a long and arduous COVID-19 quarantine, Serge A. Storms is fully vaccinated and ready to hit the road. Along with his condo neighbors, he cooks up a wild plan to celebrate in true Serge fashion....

You'd Look Better as a Ghost follows the trials and tribulations of Claire, a part-time serial killer, who is keen to keep her favorite hobby a secret—despite the efforts of a determined blackmailer....

Six old friends descend on Napa Valley for a luxurious weekend of fine wine and good times…until old tensions simmer to the surface. So much can go wrong in this dark comedy by the author of The Goddess Effect....

Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside....

Drunk customers. Shoplifting raccoons. Otherworldly visitors. As night-shift clerk at the 24-hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all. That is, until his best friend reveals the body of a local politician hidden in the trunk of a car....

Victor Mancini, a medical school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: He pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants....

Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC. But there are rules....

A dark comedy about four women coming together to heal the damage their husbands have done–and hide their bodies once they’ve killed them....

American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal....

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: 23 of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales....

Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied-à-terre in Paris....

When Chaz Perron's wife discovers that he is running a scam (posing as a marine biologist to doctor water samples so that an agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the Everglades), he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner....

For lovers of Meg Wolitzer, Maria Semple, and Jenny Offill comes this raucous, poignant celebration of life, love, and friendship at its imperfect and radiant best....

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than 12 years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service.....

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Logic comes the highly anticipated second novel set in the far future as two friends uncover if the utopian planet Paradise lives up to its name.

In the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, America Fantastica delivers a biting, witty, and entertaining story about the causes and costs of outlandish fantasy, while also marking the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters....

Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege — but he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even...getting fat? He's tried diets, gurus, and cuddling with his military-grade Israeli guard dogs....

Gilda, a 20-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church....

Saffy Huntley-Oliver is an intelligent and glamorous socialite; she also happens to be a proficient serial killer. For the past fifteen years, she’s hunted down and dispatched rapists, murderers, domestic abusers—bad men all. But leading a double life has left her lonely—dating’s tough when your boyfriend might turn out to be your next victim. Saffy thinks she’s finally found a truly good man in Jonathan Desrosiers, a true-crime podcaster who’s amassed legions of diehard fans for cracking cold cases and bringing justice to victims.

When Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals. What if they became mothers by finding a baby in an alley? What if the only cure for Myriam’s depression was Allison’s flesh? What if they were B-list celebrities, famous for writing a book about building healthy lesbian relationships? How much darker—or sexier—would their dynamic be if one were a power-hungry CEO, and the other her lowly employee?

Aleya’s world starts to unravel after a café customer leaves behind a collection of short stories. Surprised and disturbed to discover that it has been dedicated to her, Aleya delves into the strange book. A mad scientist seeks to steal his son’s dreams. A struggling writer, skilled only at destruction, finds himself courted by Hollywood. A woman seeks to escape her body and live inside her dreams. Citizens panic when a new city block manifests out of nowhere. The more Aleya reads, the deeper she sinks into the mysterious writer’s work.

At times funny, at other times sad, and more than often a mixture of the two, Giving Up by Mike Steeves is a deeply felt account of what goes on in the inner sanctum of the modern couple's apartment.

Meet Cherry, a bandit queen on the run, driving a pink soft-top convertible through the Badlands of Southeast England. She's never felt more Thelma and Louise in her life - except there are three of them in the car and one of them is dead. How did a head nurse and mother of two end up driving a handcuffed policeman and the corpse of a murdered refugee on a journey to find justice? Pursued by a racist, roid-raged, shaven-headed officer of the law - not to mention by her husband and daughter - what else can a woman with a conscience do in modern Britain?

This edition collects books one and two of the Shady Holler series, The Nine Lives of Frank Tipton and Shady Holler Holidays. The Nine Lives of Frank Tipton, is a black humor version of the Cinderella story set deep in the redneck south. Think My Name is Earl with a female lead and a lot of dead bodies. Think Raising Hope but with no baby or meemaw. Think True Blood, but without the vampires, hotties, or hunks. It’s complete with revenge, murder, mentally-challenged kids, and a love story. Audrey Peters is a hard working girl from a small backwater town in Virginia. Having never been ...

This is the second book in the Too-Sweet Saga Series. Too-Sweet, after escaping from jail in San Francisco, has relocated to Tijuana, Mexico, where she buys a rundown bar, and turns it into a gay nightclub called Tweety Pies. She decides that a change is in order, and gets rid of her blonde wig, and replaces it with a red one--which Too-Sweet feels gives her a striking resemblance to Lucile Ball. Well, okay, maybe if Lucy had been up smoking crack for a week. Unbeknown to Too-Sweet, the serial killer, Lewis Beasom (aka Pee-Baby) has also relocated to Tijuana, and takes up where he left off ...

Too-Sweet after leaving Japan, discovers the perfect place for a southern girl. Queensland north of Cairns where she buys with her Japanese Yakuza partner, a crocodile farm, bar, jungle boat, and a twenty unit motel. Too-Sweet discovers that in Australia dwarf tossing at bars is considered great sport, and names her new bar The Naked Pygmy. Living on her property is a tribe of pygmies from Papua New Guinea who also happen to be cannibals. So although she doesn't have any dwarfs for tossing, her little pygmies will do and Too-Sweet is back in business. This is the 6th in the Too-Sweet Saga ...

In this fourth in the Too-Sweet Saga, our heroine, Too-Sweet, along with Speedy Gonzales, have fled London by train to Liverpool. They take a ferry to Belfast, in Northern Ireland, along with ten kilos of cocaine that Speedy had stashed in a storage locker back in Soho. Upon arriving they rent a nasty old, boarded up bar, built out on a wharf called The Black Irish. They get help from their IRA friends to get things going. Too-Sweet decides to build a big mud pit in the center of the bar and feature nude wrestling with four female mud honeys, who also serve drinks when not rolling around in...

Set in Depression-era Savannah, Georgia, THE FRENCH STRANGER tells the story of Fred Dumas—a woman's pleasure specialist—who unknowingly kills Bunny Meyers, and is being hunted by two hit men set on him by her husband, a wealthy man who is running for mayor. This culminates into a cascade of dizzying absurdities that touch on a wide range of topics including: quantum and time theory, reincarnation, parallel universes, nirvana, baseball, World War I, chicken boxing, voodoo, Chick-O-Sticks, Ragnarök, and it answers the age-old question: if man made the chicken, did the chicken also make man?

This second in the Big Huna series takes up where Spam Sushi left off. The Bunkers consists of seven, ten-year-old boys who sell dried seaweed as pot to military and tourist in Waikiki. One day while Chewy was pulling Mellon Head on his skateboard while holding on to the back of Chewy's mountain bike, Mellon Head grabbed a purse from an Asian lady on Kohio and away they went. A couple of blocks away they open the purse and find a kilo of Ice inside. The little boys are delighted and share the captured booty with the whole gang. But being only ten years old they have a problem--how to sell ...

The third in the Big Huna Series is the wildest yet. With a cast of characters right out of Oliver Twist. The little bunkers, a gang of ten year old boys, rob a bank wearing black rubber pygmy masks. Now that they have over ten thousand dollars, they want to go to Disneyland but have a problem. How to get on a plane with no ID. They enlist the aid of the Weasel to buy the tickets and accompany them as their uncle and rent their hotel rooms. Meanwhile back in Waikiki there is a serial killer loose and giving Big Huna and Pokey the blues. Outrageously funny! Scott Bayer, Indie Film Reporter

After about 15 minutes, Weasel looked up to see two Honolulu Detectives enter the club. He sighed upon seeing them because he knew them well. Duki Boy and Big Sam, who in Weasel’s opinion were the biggest assholes on the Honolulu P.D. The two detectives spoke with a uniformed officer who pointed at the Weasel. Big Sam was Samoan and weighed about 270 pounds. Duki boy was smaller and only weighed 200 pounds. Both detectives stared at the Weasel and their faces lit up with delight. They began approaching Weasel’s booth while ogling the dancers who were sitting here and there. Weasel was ...

The year is 2038, America’s new President won with a simple, snappy campaign slogan: Kill the Rich. Now in office, his administration kicks off with a televised public hanging of Kim Kardashian, whose lip kits have poisoned a working-class city.

Sang Duri is the eldest member and “visual” of a Korean boy band at the apex of global superstardom. But when his latest solo single accidentally leads to controversy, he’s abruptly cancelled. To spare the band from fallout with obsessive fans and overbearing management, Duri disappears from the public eye by hiding out in the McMansion of a Chinese American woman he meets in a Los Angeles H-Mart. But his rescuer is both unhappily married with children and a psychologist with a savior complex, a combination that makes their potential union both seductive and incredibly problematic.