Fiction
The Last Human Bear
A Native Pomo woman who comes of age in 1930s California, Mary keeps trying to make sense of her enigmatic family. Strange rumors spread about her. Her stepmother may have taught her how to become a Human Bear, a shapeshifter who can menace and poison enemies.
Black Buck
A hilarious workplace satire that explores ambition, race, and the world of tech start-ups.
Grand Avenue: A Novel in Stories
Native and white residents in and around a Montana reservation, using a mosaic of voices to explore love, loss, cultural survival, and the quiet tensions of coexistence.
The Vietri Project
A young bookseller goes to Italy to track down a mysterious customer and has to confront her own family history.
Clean Hands
A twisty thriller featuring a female “fixer,” a former CIA agent.
American Spy
An African American FBI agent is sent on a mysterious government mission.
The Affairs of the Falcons
The tangled world of Peruvian immigrants in Brooklyn, NY.
Big Girl
A critically acclaimed look at a young girl’s life growing up in 1990s Harlem as she struggles with an eating disorder amid family discord.
Cadillac Jukebox. Dixie City Jam and nine other novels
One of America’s premier writers of crime fiction; two-time Edgar Award winner and perennial New York Times bestseller.
The Black Echo
The novel that began the career of a modern master of the police procedural; winner of the Edgar Ward for Best First Novel.
I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked out All the Pots
The story of a Gullah-speaking woman from South Carolina who raises two twin football players.
Bone
Spare, eloquent, poignant story of a San Francisco Chinatown family with three daughters.
Mrs. Ted Bliss
Winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award
The Commitments
Hilarious story of an Irish rock band; basis for the wonderful movie.
The Good Apprentice
“Iris Murdoch at her most artful, juggling philosophy and farce with knowledge and ease.” – Economist
Editing that respects your voice—and strengthens it
Patricia Mulcahy offers editorial and co-writing services to authors and publishers, combining on-the-page guidance with marketing and sales instincts honed in a long career as a publisher.