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Joseph Souza's award-winning short stories have been published in various literary journals throughout the country. Winner of the Andre Dubus Award for short fiction, he also won Honorable Mention for the Al Blanchard Award and the 2013 Maine Literary Award. His mystery, UNPAVED SURFACES, was published by Kindle Press in 2015 and was an Amazon bestseller. NEED TO FIND YOU, his crime thriller set in Portland, was the first novel to go direct-to-publish by Kindle Press. His new domestic thriller, THE NEIGHBOR (Kensington) will be published April 24, 2018. Visit josephsouza.net for more information about his work.

He lives near Portland, Maine with his wife and two children and enjoys running, cooking and playing golf when not writing.

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Average rating: 3.58 · 2,807 ratings · 584 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Neighbor 3.17 avg rating — 1,021 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unpaved Surfaces really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pray for the Girl 3.52 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perfect Daughter 3.55 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Need To Find You 4.22 avg rating — 116 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reawakening 3.55 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cruel & Bitter Things 3.74 avg rating — 105 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Liger Plague (Liger Series Book 1) 3.93 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cruel to Be Kind: A Bad Choices Novel 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lethal Chain: The Liger Series by Joseph Souza (Goodreads Author), Jeroen Ten Berge (Illustrator) 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Weight of Him

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Jule Selbo does it again with this amazing installment of the series. This time the action takes place on an island off the coast of Maine. With Gordy’s illness, Dee is forced to work this case mostly on her own, along with Gordy’s attorney friend Wa ...more
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Another great story from this author about Italian immigration, crime, and family. Oh, and it’s sauce and not gravy. And those meatballs. Best in the World!
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“The moment in life in which you exist is the only moment to cherish. Outside of that, nothing else matters.”
― Joseph Souza, Unpaved Surfaces

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“It’s like a flesh eating bacteria working it’s way to the bone, inching closer to the marrow where all empathy lives.”
― Joseph Souza, The Neighbor

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“The key to this life is to make peace with oneself before death, to accept the impermanence of all things.”
― Joseph Souza, Unpaved Surfaces

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