Bruce Hartman

“You can get out of jail, but you never get out of parole.” Kenny Ruffin, a former gang leader serving hard time in San Quentin, looks forward to his release so he can get his life back and meet his teenage son for the first time. His destiny becomes entangled with that of a redneck career...

To Alice Coggins, the 24-year-old daughter of a South Philadelphia scam artist, everything looks like a racket: endless serf-like internships, student loans that can never be repaid, and high-minded charities run by swindlers. Things only get worse when she meets Andrew Ogleby....

Disillusioned with her corporate legal career, attorney Charlotte Ambler volunteers to handle the final appeal of Christopher Ritter, a Florida death row inmate whose execution is imminent....

Awarded the Kirkus Star for Books of Exceptional Merit Nicole P. is an Irish graduate student pursuing a doctorate in literary theory in New York. She checks herself into the Palmer Institute (a posh upstate mental hospital), seeking help with anxiety and disorientation triggered by a recent...