"When you're tired of run-of-the-mill fiction, it's time to read Amberville. These are stuffed animals like you've never seen: deep, dark, and somehow, utterly believable. Lucky us—a mystery that's completely original."
—Brad Meltzer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lies

"Amberville is a firm, right hook to the brain. Hardboiled teddy bears, voluptuous rats, pious penguins, and exploding fowl populate a world that's violent, tender, hilarious, and downright sickening. Really, what could be better?"
—Eric Garcia, author of Anonymous Rex

"[W]e couldn't help loving this book.... The publisher describes it as The Big Sleep meets Animal Farm, and, frankly, we can’t do better than that."
—Booklist (starred review)

"[A] delightful debut.... No character in Amberville is quite what he or she seems, and each offers a meditation on truth, power, the value of goodness, and the nature of evil."
—BookForum

"[T]he romantic triangle among Eric, Teddy, and Emma is engagingly drawn, and never for a moment does the story feel like kids stuff. An appealingly unique world, cut from some interesting cloth."
—Kirkus Reviews

Eric Bear has it all: a successful career, a beautiful wife, a blissful home. He knows he's been lucky; a while back, his life revolved around drugs, gambling, a gang of stuffed animal thugs, and notorious crime boss Nicholas Dove. But the past isn't as far away as Eric had hoped. Rumors are swirling that Dove is on the Death List, and he wants Eric to save him. If Eric fails to act, his beloved wife, Emma Rabbit, will be torn apart, limb by limb.