Kaylie N Jones

Kaylie Jes

Kaylie Jones (born 5 August 1960 in Paris, France) is an American writer, ... Jones is the daughter of National Book Award-winning novelist James Jones ( From...

Long Island Noir (Akashic Noir)

The Shiny Car in the Night” by Nick Mamatas has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013, edited by Otto Penzler and Lisa Scottoline"There is plenty of mayhem for fans of dark fiction in the pages of Long Island Noir: shootings, killings, all manner of brutality...Suburb...

Quite the Other Way

We Are All Crew

"This eye-popping page turner hits on all levels and will keep you up way past your bedtime...A coming of age thriller with imagination, guts, and soul."--EcoLit Books"Here we have a Huck Finn for our environmentally damaged age, lost on a river, and moving downstream with humane monsters and monstr...

Celeste Ascending: A Novel

In this splendid novel, Celeste finds herself engaged to Alex, a wealthy man whose standards are as exacting as her own -- or so she thought. As she begins to question their relationship and herself, Celeste is haunted by painful memories: of her past in well-heeled, blue-blooded Connecticut; of the...

Little Beasts

Included in Library Journal's "Books That Buzzed at BookExpo America" Roundup, the first word on titles and trends from Barbara Hoffert, Editor"McGevna's debut novel captures the familiar rhythms of summertime, following young people on the edge of violence."--Kirkus Reviews"A serious, searing debut...

Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir

In her riveting memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jones—the daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed author in her own right (A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries; Celeste Ascending; As Soon As It Rains)—tells the poignant story of her relationship with her famou...

The Anger Meridian

"Kaylie Jones's striking novel...quivers with tension from the opening page...[A] lovely, finely plotted novel, which highlights colorful San Miguel and the complexities of family, loyalty and honesty. The Anger Meridian is at once a suspenseful mystery and a superlatively gripping story of self-dis...

Speak Now

Paperback reissue of the highly acclaimed literary thriller from the daughter of James Jones