Other Novels
As Told By Monk
He’s a 9-year-old in 1960, in Jersey City. He wears a red hoodie and is known to adults and kids alike as Monk. He has a crush on a girl named Jeannie. But Jeannie dies. Alongside his first encounter with death, Monk realizes that someone he knows may have killed the girl. What’s that like? Monk himself will tell you.
“We are entranced and enthralled” —The Pale Fire Review
“As Told By Monk is a book like no other. Monk is a 9 year-old Jersey City kid who tells his story in that gritty city’s vernacular. It is a gem.” — Ron Semple, author of Her Morning Shadow
High Gate Health and Beauty
High Gate Health and Beauty is a psychological murder drama. The narrator, fifteen year old Joey Scadutto, lives in the decaying High Gate section of Jersey City, New Jersey. Summer vacation has just begun when Joey finds his neighbor’s dog, Prince, strangled on Cobble Road. Then the dog’s owner is also found dead, and the people of High Gate fear there’s a murderer on the loose. When Joey starts to suspect that the killer is his own brother, and that an innocent girl is the number-one suspect, he must choose between family loyalty and doing the right thing.
“A pulsating portrait of family and neighborhood dynamics and their effects on a young man coming of age.” — Oakland (CA) Tribune
“Colicchio gets at the heart and soul…through compelling dialogue and insightful descriptions that lead us deeper into the story until its startling end.” — mostlyfiction.com, named a Top Ten novel of the year 2000
The Trouble With Mental Wellness
In a Jersey City, New Jersey, storefront that once was his father’s meat market, forty-year-old Nicky Finucche runs his Finucche’s Mental Wellness Center. He is as inept as a psychological counselor as he is well-meaning. Finucche and the other clueless but endearing men and women characters demonstrate the humanity of oddball characters and the role of love in a lonely life.
“A client’s suicide almost spells disaster for a hapless therapist in Colicchio’s punchy second novel. In Jersey City, N.J., crusty Nicky Finnuche runs a counseling practice out of what used to be his dad’s Central Avenue meat market. Times are a bit tough. . . . [In this] Endearing story….Colicchio imbues his absorbing narrative with the city’s sights and people, gracefully highlighting their grit and hidden charm.” — Library Journal
All Strings Attached
New Jersey’s Bon Secours Continuous Care Facility is located on the Hudson River, just two miles south of the George Washington Bridge and across from gleaming Manhattan. This setting for Weehawken High School student Thomas Moore’s summer internship couldn’t be more different from the open road adventures of his 22-year-old sibling, Alex. From the air-conditioned halls of Bon Secours to the remote wilderness of Starvation Lake, Utah, these contrasts are all part of the mix in All Strings Attached.
“Colicchio has a sharp ear for dialogue and knowingly fills his work with it. He is a natural storyteller. An engagingly heartfelt…pair of coming-of-age stories.”—Kirkus Reviews
“All Strings Attached takes readers on a rollicking ride through life….[A]n especially thought-provoking read,” — Midwest Review of Books
