Yannick Murphy

• Nov-2025
• / Literary

A deeply funny and achingly honest coming-of-age story surfacing from the pressures of Navy life and the weight of what comes after.“Murphy, a fiction writer of vibrant imagination, wit, and nuance, returns after a long hiatus with a bravura first-...

• Aug-2021
• / Literary

WINNER OF FC2’s CATHERINE DOCTOROW INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE   A gathering of luminescent stories that illustrates how fraught and contingent the simplest of lives can be, and the often unexpected means available to each of us for our own salva...

• Aug-2014
• / Psychological Suspense

From Yannick Murphy, award-winning author of The Call, comes a fast-paced story of murder, adultery, parenthood, and romance, involving a girls’ swim team, their morally flawed parents, and a killer who swims in their midst. In a quiet New Engla...

• Aug-2011
• / Literary

The daily rhythm of a veterinarian's family in rural New England is shaken when a hunting accident leaves their eldest son in a coma. With the lives of his loved ones unhinged, the veterinarian struggles to maintain stability while searching for the ...

• Aug-2010
• / General Fiction

It's the coldest night of the year and an eerie figure floats into a young girl's house. It is the Cold Water Witch and she's searching for someone to take her place as the ruler of a lonely, distant, frozen land. But the Cold Water Witch isn't prepa...

• Nov-2009
• / Action Adventure

Baby Polar loves cuddling up with Mama Polar -- until the snow starts to fall. Then he wants to play! He loves catching the tasty flakes on his tongue and zigzagging across the ice. When the winds begin to gust and the snow becomes a blizzard, Ba...

• Feb-2008
• / Literary

“Stories like beautiful black diamonds. Someone has cut you while you were dreaming, slipped them into your muscles, your mind. You may never know just how you’ve been changed.” -- Brad Watson, author of The Heaven of Mercury

The title...

• Nov-2007
• / Historical

In the cold October of 1917 Margaretha Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, sits in a prison cell in Paris awaiting trial on charges of espionage. The penalty is death by firing squad. As she waits, burdened by a secret guilt, Mata Hari tells stories, S...

• Jun-2006
• / General Fiction

One moonlit night, Little Wolf wakes and knows he is ready. This is the night he will learn how to howl. But who can teach him? Mother and Father Wolf are too busy, and none of the other animals know how. There is someone, though, who has been howlin...

• Mar-2006
• / Literary

"I can imagine both Jane Austen and Raymond Carver pouring over this masterly novel" of a girl's coming-of-age in 1970s New York (Frank McCourt).   From the National Endowment for the Arts Award�"winning author of the New York Times No...

• May-1997
• / General Fiction

A New York Times Notable Book In a first novel of "vivid, harrowing beauty" (People), Murphy surveys the landscape of war and peace through the unflinching gaze of an adolescent girl. Set in Indochina in the 1940s, The Sea of Trees is narrated by Tia...

• Jun-1987
• / General Fiction

Projecting new kinds of images of sex, violence, and death, this collection of short stories treats such subjects as the allure of violence, and the sexual play that binds sister and brother, and father and daughter...