Maggie Estep, Author . Three Rivers $14 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4837-3
Ruby Murphy, 33-year-old animal lover and recovering alcoholic, makes a lovably quirky heroine in Estep's debut mystery. Bored with her job at the Coney Island Museum, Ruby agrees through a misunderstanding with "a willowy blonde woman"...
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Maggie Estep, Author . Three Rivers $13 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4755-0
This collection of spoken and journalistic pieces by New York writer-performer Estep is an uneven effort. The "Confessions" fare the worst in the transition from fugitive magazine to book (many of them appeared first in the monthly Shout):...
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Maggie Estep, Author . Three Rivers $14 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4000-8273-5
When Ruby Murphy—Brooklyn resident, cat whisperer and mad-dash urban bicyclist—notices a human leg in her psychiatrist's fish tank in her third diverting sleuthing adventure (after 2004's Gargantuan
), the limb proves to belong...
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Maggie Estep, Author . Akashic $15.95 (244p) ISBN 978-1-933354-81-1
Estep’s entertaining fifth novel features three women—half-sisters Alice and Eloise and their ex-junkie mother, Kimberly—navigating relationships, a half-dozen lovers and innumerable dogs. Alice, the elder sister, is a professional
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Maggie Estep, Author Three Rivers Press (CA) $12.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-609-61033-6
Five separate narrators tell a sometimes muddled story involving race fixing, kidnapping and murder in Estep's second Ruby Murphy mystery (after 2003's Hex), set primarily at New York's Belmont Park. The most distinctive voice belongs to Ruby, a...
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Maggie Estep, Author Harmony $18 (192p) ISBN 978-0-517-70179-9
Performance artist Estep delivers a raspy, ultra-hip monologue for her first novel, a clever and cynical take on a young woman's life on the edge of urban society. Zoe, a ""fuck-book writer and receptionist to dominatrixes"" who lives in Manhattan's
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Maggie Estep, Author Simon & Schuster $21 (224p) ISBN 978-0-684-86333-7
Not a book for the timid, this wonderfully intense collection of interconnected short stories from the author of Diary of an Emotional Idiot presents a cast of searchers, almost-but-not-quite-lost souls crisscrossing a lusciously sordid New York....
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