Crispin/Hammer, publishing fiction by Craig Joseph Danner
The Fires of Edgarville 2009
The Fires of Edgarville is the story of Hank Davenport, a Japanese-American physician who is
accused of mercy-killing a young patient. Exonerated, he decides to
leave his tainted reputation behind, and moves to his adopted mother's
remote and dilapidated pear farm. As his mother begins to slide into
the dementia of Alzheimer's, she reveals long-held secrets while Hank
becomes involved in the mystery of a phantom arsonist plaguing a
community with its own shameful history. Learn more...
Himalayan Dhaba 2001
Winner of the 2002 Pacific Northwest
Book Award, Himalayan Dhaba was a surprise bestseller and a favorite
novel of booksellers throughout the Northwest. It is the story of
Doctor Mary Davis, recently widowed, who follows the spirit of her late
husband to a town high in the Indian Himalayas. When she drops her bags
at the old mission hospital where her husband once had volunteered, she
begins a year-long odyssey of descent and redemption that connects her
with a cast of unexpected characters. Learn more...
The Fires of Edgarville is the story of Hank Davenport, a Japanese-American physician who is
accused of mercy-killing a young patient. Exonerated, he decides to
leave his tainted reputation behind, and moves to his adopted mother's
remote and dilapidated pear farm. As his mother begins to slide into
the dementia of Alzheimer's, she reveals long-held secrets while Hank
becomes involved in the mystery of a phantom arsonist plaguing a
community with its own shameful history. 
Winner of the 2002 Pacific Northwest
Book Award, Himalayan Dhaba was a surprise bestseller and a favorite
novel of booksellers throughout the Northwest. It is the story of
Doctor Mary Davis, recently widowed, who follows the spirit of her late
husband to a town high in the Indian Himalayas. When she drops her bags
at the old mission hospital where her husband once had volunteered, she
begins a year-long odyssey of descent and redemption that connects her
with a cast of unexpected characters. 
