Christopher Brookhouse

• Oct-2000
• / General Fiction

• Oct-2001
• / Action Adventure

The waters are roiled in a small New England college when a part-time professor takes up with her teaching assistant. In succinct, often somberly beautiful language, Brookhouse (Running Out, etc.) writes about a breast cancer survivor, Caroline, and ...

• Jan-2004
• / General Fiction

The stories in Fog are not only intelligent and sexy (as readers have said), but also elegantly written, stories that consider the varieties of love and affirm the beauty of places we can see around us and geographies we can only imagine....

• Oct-2007
• / Literary

• Jan-2009
• / General Fiction

Novelist and poet Brookhouse underwhelmingly examines the repressed desires of the Groh family and its community in Jeffrey, N.H., following the disappearance of teenage daughter Nicki. Set to graduate high school and attend Princeton, Nicki runs awa...

• Jun-2010
• / Mystery

Gus Salt never wanted to be sheriff of Harr County, North Carolina. He had planned to study with a famous writer at Harvard College and become a writer himself. Then Pearl Harbor happened, and Gus, deferred from service because of a lazy thyroid, was...

• Aug-2010
• / General Fiction

The three stories in this collection explore reticence and desire.

''Unless Alex'' takes place on Valentine's Day years after the narrator has fallen in love with Alex Alexandra ''Alex'' Kellogg. As the day passes, the narrator unfolds the st...

• Mar-2015
• / General Fiction

a novel by Christopher Brookhouse 122 pages, $12. 95 Summer. 1960. Finn grew up in the South. He should have known when the school he worked for admitted a student of color there would be trouble. He should have known not to have an Indian for a frie...

• May-2015
• / Literary

The second novel by the author of Passing Game, a story set in a privately funded workshop in an isolated Amish village....

• Jul-2018
• / Mystery

2nd Gus Salt story.Blossom Hall, an aspiring novelist, and her editor unearth a finger bone and a Civil-War era secret threatens to destroy two local families. Meanwhile, Sheriff Salt investigates a suspicious fire and the deaths of a photographer...

• Jun-2019
• / Mystery

3rd Gus Salt story. When Kitty Wing comes to town to deliver an old safe and ends up dead, the investigation takes Gus to Chapel Hill where he uncovers the long-kept secret of a decorated WWII veteran whose life ended in suicide. Blossom, meanwhil...

• Aug-2020
• / Amateur Sleuth

In this final installment of the Gus Salt series, the sheriff of Harr County, North Carolina, meets up again with the scofflaw Hunt brothers as he searches for the identity of a burned body and the whereabouts of a missing woman, who seems connected ...

• Oct-2021
• / General Fiction

On Rasa Island, Florida, aging Ali Green, Sam Bishop, and Landon Greer meet almost every day at happy hour at Tibb's, a local watering hole. Ali, always looking for a deal, Sam, a successful contractor until his bookkeeper absconded with all his mone...

• Nov-2023
• / General Fiction

The year is 1980. Leonard Grey, now in his sixth year at a prestigious Southern college, works various jobs to pay for the remaining class hours he needs to graduate. Hired by the athletic department to tutor a superb Black basketball recruit, Lenny ...

• Oct-2024
• / Literary

Theo Vos comes from Ohio to Mott County, N.C. in search of answers about an ancestor whose casket had been shipped home during the Civil War but when it arrived, the body inside wasn’t his. While there, Vos is hired to tutor an agoraphobic but ...