Christopher Murphy – författare

After narrowly surviving a copycat killer, Jace Lannister is hungry for normalcy with his partner in their storied corner of New York. But being Black, gay, and the son of a serial killer - the Brooklyn Butcher - isn''t exactly the recipe for a regular life.

Still, Jace is ready to rebuild a life outside the walls of his father''s legacy, a murder room that housed 19 victims before his father killed himself in prison. A room that''s sealed off beneath the floorboards of the reopened deli Jace wants to make his own.

When the courthouse steps are littered with human remains, wrapped in undeniably familiar butcher paper, it ignites his father''s diehard fan base ... and the theory he is still somehow alive.

Are the theories true? Had his father faked his death after all? Or is Jace unknowingly looking at the killer each time he looks in the mirror?

This book will teach you how to build hand-crafted web pages the Web Standardistas way: using well-structured XHTML for content and CSS for presentation.

By embracing a web standards approach, you will hold the key to creating web sites that not only look great in all modern browsers, but also are accessible to a wide variety of audiences across a range of platforms—from those browsing on everyday computers, to those accessing the Web on the latest emerging mobile devices.

Even if you''re an absolute beginner in web design, this book will teach you how to build future-proof web pages the right way using easy-to-master tools which are, in most cases, free. Through 14 easy-to-follow chapters, we introduce you to the fundamentals of contemporary web design practice. Step by step we''ll assemble well-structured XHTML webpages, which we''ll then style using handcrafted CSS.

By the end of the book, you''ll have a firm knowledge of the essentials of web design: everything you need to know to move forward in your lifelong journey as a Web Standardista.

To equip you on this noble quest, we''ve included enjoyable practical assignments at the end of each chapter. Embracing these challenges will not only teach you how to create great looking web sites that are the envy of your peers, but also equip you with an unrivaled knowledge of monkeys that journeyed to space and apes that starred in the movies—the real stars of this book.

On completion of this book not only will you be able to create well-crafted web sites, but you will have earned the badge of a Web Standardista, proving your worth as a good citizen of the Web.

Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 is your introduction to the new features and elements of HTML5—as a web developer you''ll learn about all the leaner, cleaner, and more efficient code available now with HTML5, along with some new tools that will allow you to create more meaningful and richer content. For everyone involved in web design, this book also introduces the new structural integrity and styling flexibility of CSS 3—which means better-looking pages and smarter content in your website projects.

For all forward-looking web professionals who want to start enjoying and deploying the new HTML5 and CSS3 features right away, this book provides you with an in-depth look at the new capabilities—including audio and video—that are new to web standards. You’ll learn about the new HTML5 structural sections, plus HTML5 and CSS3 layouts. You’ll also discover why some people think HTML5 is going to be a Flash killer, when you see how to create transitions and animations with these new technologies. So get ahead in your web development through the practical, step-by-step approaches offered to you in Beginning HTML5 and CSS3.

Located just north of Boston, Nashua, New Hampshire, is known as a quiet cityuntil a series of violent murders makes front page news just before Memorial Day weekend. The brutal killings leave citizens terrified, and the NH State Police respond by bringing in an experienced investigator.

Detective Sergeant John Osborne is an abrasive but competent state trooper from the major crimes unit. Osborne immediately butts heads with Detective David Boyle, his liaison to the Nashua police department.

Both men begin investigating the grisly murders, which seemingly happened with absolutely no apparent connection except for the killer placing a white pillowcase over the victims head and tying the end of it off in a knot around the neck.

As if the killer didnt want to see the victims face, the skull is pummeled rendering them unrecognizable. Nothing is as it seems as both investigators clash every step of the way. Their own personal dislike and inter-departmental hostility for each other threatens to jeopardize the investigation. Ironically, both of them might actually be closer to the truth than they realize upon learning of an eerily similar crime committed in Maryland the year before. In fact, the killer has already decided that one of them must become the next victim.

In Burning All the Time, Chris Murphy illuminates the life within characters, the rough fusions between characters and, more than anything, a place-Northeastern Oklahoma, with the power to claim characters and work them into its weave. The result is fiction that becomes a place unto itself, with its own air, own distances, own loneliness, mystery and threat. Reading Murphy''s stories, you''ll find yourself inhabiting this singular place and caring for it mightily. In other words: you''ll find that it''s claimed you as well.

-Ben Nickol, author of Sun River: Stories

What a knockout collection this is. Christopher Murphy knows the secret heart of eastern Oklahoma and renders it in ways compelling, mysterious, hilarious, and humane. A mashup of acutely observed realist detail and rich imaginings, these works of flash fiction combine to forge a narrative portrait that resonates long after the reading''s done.

-Rilla Askew author of Strange Business & Harpsong

Chris Murphy''s Burning All the Time is full of beautiful, unexpected stories of Oklahoma and people who share a wry sense of compassion and longing, love and forgiveness. Murphy writes with sharp prose and a kind of intellectual depth so few writers can create. It''s a charming, wonderfully crafted collection. I loved it.

-Brandon Hobson, National Book Award finalist

and author of The Removed

Flash fiction is like narrative poetry roughed up some and, if roughed up right, made better. Well, there''s poetry aplenty in Chris Murphy''s collection, the narrative drive is strong, and the roughing up is very smartly done. Together, these fictions deliver a clear, many-faceted view of a tough, sweet corner of Oklahoma.

-Donald Hays, author of The Dixie Association & 

Dying Light and Other Stories