Keith Rosson Knihy

Set in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by madness and violence, a powerful corporation has partnered with the government to contain the afflicted within quarantined cities. Detective John Bonner seeks redemption in Portland, while Katherine Moriarty grieves her family in hiding. In France, young Naomi Laurent discovers a unique gift that could hold the key to humanity's survival. As their paths converge, this gripping sequel weaves together themes of loss, hope, and the struggle for a better future amidst chaos.

2019 IPPY Award Silver Medalist 2019 IBPA Ben Franklin Award Silver Medalist Powell's Books Best Fiction of 2018 "Rosson is a talent to be watched." - Jason Heller, NPR Marvin Deitz has some serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. His therapist has concerns about his stability. He's compelled to volunteer at the local Children's Hospital even though it breaks his heart every week. Oh, and he's also the guilt-ridden reincarnation of Geoffroy Thérage, the French executioner who lit Joan of Arc's pyre in 1431. He's just seen a woman on a Los Angeles talk show claiming to be Joan, and absolution seems closer than it's ever been . . . but how will he find her? When Marvin heads to Los Angeles to locate the woman who may or may not be Joan, he's picked up hitchhiking by Mike Vale, a self-destructive alcoholic painter traveling to his ex-wife's funeral. As they move through a California landscape populated with "smokes" (ghostly apparitions that've inexplicably begun appearing throughout the southwestern US), each seeks absolution in his own way. In  Smoke City , Keith Rosson continues to blur genre and literary fiction in a way that is in turns surprising, heartfelt, brutal, relentlessly inventive, and entirely his own.

2021 IPPY Award Bronze Medalist - Best Fantasy NovelMark Sandoval—resolutely arrogant, covered head to foot in precise geometric scarring, and still marginally famous after Hollywood made an Oscar-winner based off his memoir years before—has been strongly advised by his lawyer to leave the country following a drunken and potentially fatal hit and run. When a woman sends Sandoval grainy footage of what appears to be a unicorn, he quickly hires an assistant and the two head off to the woman's farm in Hvíldarland, a tiny, remote island off the coast of Iceland. When they arrive on the island and discover that both a military base and the surrounding álagablettur, the nearby woods, are teeming with strangeness and secrets, they begin to realize that a supposed unicorn sighting is the least of their worries.

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.

Set in the coastal town of Riptide, Oregon, in 1983, the narrative intertwines the lives of four individuals grappling with personal loss amidst rising tensions and eerie occurrences. Sam Finster, a grieving high school senior, and his deaf sister Trina find themselves entangled in a mystery involving a skeleton and ritualistic animal sacrifices. As Sheriff Dave Dobbs and Deputy Nick Hayslip investigate, they confront their own sorrows. The novel blends magical realism and alternate history with rich character development, appealing to fans of genre-bending literature.