Author: Jan Burke
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: hocus
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0743444531
ISBN-13: 9780743444538

Jan Burke’s stories about a vulnerable and resourceful reporter at a Southern California newspaper called Las Piernas News Express all feature tense and thoughtful plots, writing that manages to be sharp and sardonic without calling attention to itself, and a dead honest picture of the world of small-market newspaper journalism. Her latest is no exception. When Kelly’s homicide detective husband, Frank Harriman, gets a heroic write-up in her paper after arresting the apparent leader of a gang of murderous troublemakers that call themselves Hocus (in the sense of hoax, rather than m

Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Keywords: pocus, hocus
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1997-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0425161293
ISBN-13: 9780425161296

This novel tells the story of a devilish pair of twins whose enormous intellect is hidden behind a facade of idiocy.