Keith Rosson Libros

A small-time criminal, a has-been rock star, a shadowy government agency, and a severed hand with dark powers threaten to destroy them all. When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz arrives at a rundown Portland apartment to collect overdue drug money, he finds a severed hand hidden in the refrigerator. He soon discovers that the hand incites uncontrollable violence in anyone nearby. Catastrophic events unfold as dark-op government agents, desperate to retrieve the hand, pursue Hutch, while more residents fall victim to its brutal influence, pushing Portland toward disaster. Katherine Moriarty, a once-famous singer whose career collapsed after her estranged husband's mysterious death, is now agoraphobic, confined to her apartment. Her son, Nick, has returned home to care for her, working for Hutch’s boss. When Hutch reaches out to Nick in distress, Katherine and Nick are thrust into a global struggle that threatens their carefully constructed lives. They must evade bloodthirsty mobs and deceitful agents while confronting family secrets that resurface, revealing truths that may hold the key to humanity's survival. Can they resist the hand? An excerpt from the next installment awaits at the end.

With Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, award-winning author Keith Rosson once again delves into notions of family, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope, with the surefooted merging of literary fiction and magical realism he’s explored in previous novels. In “Dunsmuir,” a newly sober husband buys a hearse to help his wife spread her sister’s ashes, while “The Lesser Horsemen” illustrates what happens when God instructs the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to go on a team-building cruise as a way of boosting their frayed morale. In “Brad Benske and the Hand of Light,” an estranged husband seeks his wife’s whereabouts through a fortune teller after she absconds with a cult, and the returning soldier in “Homecoming” navigates the strange and ghostly confines of his hometown, as well as the boundaries of his own grief. With grace, imagination, and a brazen gallows humor, Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons merges the fantastic and the everyday, and includes new work as well as award-winning favorites.