An Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel. Praised by authors and critics around the globe, The Guards is the first novel in the Jack Taylor series and heralded the

The king offers a prize to anyone who can fool his sharp-sighted guards.

“Patchett demonstrates just how great the distance is between one- and two-joke writers and the comic masters whose work will be read into the next century.�

Christopher Gooden's Releasing the Guards is a testimony of healing from early childhood sexual abuse. His extraordinary courage in revealing his battles with r