Steve Toltz Books in Order

Jasper Dean recounts the extraordinary lives of his scheming father Martin and notorious uncle Terry. Their adventures, failures, and competing ambitions stretch from Australia to Europe and Asia in a sprawling family story about notoriety, love, and survival.

Liam, a frustrated writer turned police officer, finds material in his best friend Aldo’s increasingly disastrous life. Aldo’s criminal misadventures and efforts to reclaim his former wife fuel a dark comedy about failure, friendship, and the difficulties of enduring existence.

Murdered Angus Mooney discovers an afterlife as bewildering as the world he left behind. Able to observe his pregnant wife and the man who killed him, he watches their growing closeness while a pandemic threatens to overcrowd the realm of the dead.