Brian M. Wiprud

BOOKS
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	FEELERS
	"Thriller - Brian Wiprud's FEELERS, about a "home content removal" expert who finds close to a million dollars stashed in a Brooklyn apartment only to discover others are after the same loot, including a recently paroled prison assassin, to Michael Homler at St. Martin's, by Alex Glass at Trident Media Group (world)."\| More information coming soon!
	TAILED
	Everybody's favorite taxidermy dealer Garth Carson is back and caught up in ritualistic serial killings of big game hunters - by their own trophies! Angie, Otto and Nicholas are along for a bumpy ride that takes them through America's heartland, a journey punctuated by the importance of cheese curds. For more info, click here.
	CROOKED
	Nicholas Palihnic is taxidermy collector Garth Carson’s black-sheep brother, a natty, tweed-suited hustler who knows every nook and cranny of New York—and a thousand ways to a break a girl’s heart. Beatrice Belarus is a Manhattan art dealer with an insatiable appetite for money—and for anyone who gets in her way. And a painting titled “Trampoline Nude, 1972” has neither nudity nor a trampoline. But when Nicholas is hired by an insurance company to find the recently stolen painting, and a murdered art thief leads him to a trove of gold buried beneath Manhattan, suddenly all roads are leading Nicholas back to Beatrice Belarus. For more info, click here.
	SLEEP WITH THE FISHES
	After a prison stretch and early release, prominent mob turncoat Sydney Bifulco retires to a cabin on the Delaware River to fulfill his dream of the quiet, rural life where he can pursue his newfound passion for fly fishing. He soon finds it's a lot more difficult than it looks in the magazines, especially with forces from his past trying either to whack him or woo him. Enter a cast of local screwballs and a dead hit man in the driveway. The body goes missing, and an incriminating videotape attracts a rogue cop, a gangland hypnotist, and skin flick impresarios. For more info, click here.
	STUFFED
	When the crow is stolen, along with $50,000 worth of Garth’s best taxidermy, the search leads Garth and Angie into the spooky heart of old New England and a realm of crazy carneys, bumbling Feds, and a couple of freshly snuffed collectors. To find out why, these two reluctant sleuths must penetrate a zany, highly illegal international treasure hunt—and meet a freak who has a thing for murder... For more info, click here.
	PIPSQUEAK
	PIPSQUEAK is a novel about a New York taxidermy/collectibles dealer and his gal Angie at odds with a swing-band conspiracy to undo the information age. It all centers on the murder of a biker, a mysterious brawny red head and a stolen TV squirrel puppet named Pipsqueak. Garth's black-sheep brother Nicholas gets in the mix, and embroils Garth and Angie in a search for Pipsqueak that entangles them in a violent anti-technology cult fronted by a pontifical bandleader. Is Pipsqueak the key to a government-sanctioned mind control scheme via high-definition TV? Not if Garth has anything to say about it. For more info, click here.
	DIRT NAP (Unpublished)
	It shouldn’t surprise anyone to learn that the long-awaited SLEEP WITH THE FISHES sequel has the folks in Hellbender Eddy immersed in mayhem. Vying for membership in an exclusive hunting and fishing club, Sid turns enforcer when he’s retained to dissuade a rangy gang of local poachers. But between the bears, a good luck charm on the fritz, and Russ hiring a hit man to kill him, Sid finds the job a mite more dangerous than he thought. Of course, all Russ is trying to do is find success and the good life through the influential members of that same hunting and fishing club. He has no idea that the slicker “Rocky” who moved in next door is actually TV sitcom actor Chris Rockwell, who’s shadowing Sid as inspiration for a movie part. For more info, click here.