Jim DeFilippi's Books
Mar.29.2011
BUF is an abnormal novel that will surprise you and perk you up.
Mar.29.2011
BUF is an abnormal novel that will surprise you and perk you up.
Mar.29.2011
BUF is an abnormal novel that will surprise you and perk you up.
Sep.16.2010
What if Truman Capote's classic true-crime book, IN COLD BLOOD, had gotten it all wrong? That is what Queens, New York, reporter Jimmy Spacone tries to find out--not realizing that this pursuit of the truth could either sanctify or crucify him.
Sep.05.2010
Chester Earl Costagravas needs to get hold of some wedding money before his Julietta leaves him for someone offering her a better reception. First, there’s the thousands of dollars on the table, just begging to be heisted, at Dr. Bohansen’s weekly poker game. Then there’s the stolen Yogomani lamp that Chester Earl’s buddy Ralphie says is worth a lot, created by the Chinese...
Mar.16.2009
Aging Vermont farmer Warren Lareaux refuses to give up any piece of his land or of his life—not for love, not for family, not for the law. His brother Ty represents all three of these forces. The two men are thrown into a deadly battle that neither one wants nor can escape. Can either brother survive the magnificent forced combat?
Jan.01.1998
Jay Tasti and Albert Niklozak grew up in the 1950’s and 1960’s in a tough little section of Long island called Duck Alley. The sounds of garbage cans clattering and railroad cars rumbling by were usually drowned out by their teary-eyed laughter.
The friendship held steady into adulthood. But when the decomposed body of a teenage girl is found half-washed...
Jan.01.1992
Thirty years ago in high school, Audrey McKenna could drive Joe LaLuna blind with her beauty and her secrets, with a Coke on the side. Now Joe is an ace Long Island homicide detective, and she's a murder suspect, still using her beauty and secrets and coke to blind lovers like Joe.
For those of us who do not enjoy reading an entire novel off a computer or e-reader screen, Everyday Malfeasance might be a better choice. It is a collection of very short pieces I have done for various places through the years. Each one can be read in one shot, with very little effort or discomfort, and might provide a few laughs.
"'Tinkery tonk,' I said, and I meant it to sting."--Bertie Wooster”
—P.G. Wodehouse
About Jim
Jim DeFilippi was born and raised in Duck Alley, on Long Island, and has been writing and living on a dirt road in northern Vermont since 1973. He is a husband of many years, a father of two, a grandfather, a retired school teacher, a special-needs bus...
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Jim’s Favorite Books
Wodehouse's JEEVES stories