Lior Samson Books

Shanna Newsom is an historian with a buried past of her own. While digging in her garden, she makes a discovery that threatens to throw her settled life at Holcomb University into chaos. A found object pulls Shanna and her partner, ex-cop Rand McMurphy, into a vortex of deception and denial. The cold-case trail they follow will test their relationship as it leads from recent accusations of sexual misconduct to an old and untold story of survival at any cost and back to encounters with the difficult truths of today.

Shanna Newsom, a young professor of history at a small Southern university, is a survivor with a past. Skilled and talented, she is too good for the supporting role she has assumed, but staying on script has become essential for her survival. With the arrival of Rand McMurphy, an ex-cop with a hobby solving cold cases, the past begins to catch up with the present, and the threads of her quiet life begin to unravel. Names from the dark past echo in life-changing losses: in a woman's disappearance from campus and in the tragic events at Manhattan's Twin Towers. ALWAYS ME is a tense rollercoaster of romance and mystery, an intricately plotted many-tiered story by a masterful storyteller.

HOFFER AWARD WINNER - TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Karl Lustig is a world-weary consultant and sometime blogger who believes he is in control of his fate. His settled life is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious piece of jewelry, end-product of a chain of events set in motion more than four decades earlier. Rooted in real events and set against the backdrop of Israel's emergence as a nuclear power, BASHERT, Yiddish for fated, is a geopolitical thriller that caroms between continents and bounces between time frames. From MIT to the Middle East, from college days to an uncertain present, it is the story of three people whose lives are intertwined by destiny and by unseen direction. Newly re-edited and reset, the tenth anniversary edition incorporates additional material.

An imaginative, inspiring, and daring cross-border collection of poems and song lyrics by fictional poets and songwriters in the novels and short stories of Lior Samson. Best known as the author of contemporary thrillers, Samson argues that poems and poetry-whether spoken, written, or sung-are part of ordinary, everyday life, and honest fiction recognizes this reality. Here are poems of love and longing, or hope and despair, and songs of sadness and protest, including "Parallel Lines," a rap-metal anthem for our divided and divisive times.