Robert J Randisi: 51 books

When ex-sheriff Ken Burke is attacked and winds up in an unusual coma, the former hitman Sangster finds himself pulled into the world of Voodoo in order to save his friend. Sangster discovers he has stepped into a hornet’s nest as the search leads him through a myriad of French Quarter Voodoo...

“The tale bubbles along, a veritable gumbo brimming with gangsters, bitter mothers, cold-blooded killers, alligators, and a touch of voodoo.” —Publishers Weekly. Sangster doesn’t seem to be able to escape his past as a hitman, no matter how hard he tries. And now it’s his friend,...

Three years ago, Sangster, a hitman, woke up and discovered he had a soul and decided to retire to New Orleans. Now, his former life has finally caught up with him. And they want him back or the alternative is his death. To truly escape his past, Sangster must decide between saving his...

"Robert Randisi has long been held as a master of the genre."—Michael Connelly Bat Masterson is no longer a sheriff in the Old West. He's moved East to New York City where he gets a job as a sport's writer for The Morning Telegraph. But when his friend and fellow-newsman, Inkspot...

This third issue of Down & Out: The Magazine features a new Jim Brodie story by Barry Lancet, whose novel Japantown has been optioned by J.J. Abrams and Warner Brothers for the Hollywood treatment. Here we have Brodie on a trip to his home in Japan and a quest to find out what’s going on with...

Heat has always sizzled between private investigators and the femme fatales who walk through their doors. But in this startling, original anthology, these 17 authors—many of them winners of the prestigious Shamus Award—from sizzle to steamy, illustrating that sex and crime not only go hand in...

“Mature Male Available for Housesitting, Non-Smoker, No Pets, Widower.” With this listing, Private Eye Writers of America founder Robert J. Randisi introduces readers to a retired captain of the NYPD who now spends his time housesitting wherever the job takes him…and learns that he can...

Van Patten, host of Travel Channel's "World Poker Tour," and mystery writer Randisi team up to deliver this first novel in a new fast-paced, high-stakes poker mystery series. One of the best-loved of mystery writers weaves another tale of intrigue featuring Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe of Crocodile...

WHEN TRACKER COMES LOOKING FOR A MAN, NO KID BETTER GET IN THE WAY Tracker rode in just looking for a man and 20,000 stolen dollars. He didn't count on much trouble... except from women. Until he ran into Pat Garrett wearing a brand new sheriffs badge and gunning to kill his ex—best friend—Billy...

NYPD Detective Sergeant Dennis McQueen has his hands full with a very bizarre case. A series of dead bodies have been found, all frozen -- killed by various methods, but disposed of in the same manner. Just a coincidence, or is there a serial killer at work? Things heat up when McQueen is sent to investigate...

ANGEL OF THE NIGHT After Liz Archer wakes up next to a corpse in a Frisco whorehouse, she's arrested for murder. Innocent of the crime, she escapes from jail desperate to uncover the truth. With help from an oriental "lady of the evening," Liz learns more than the identity of the...

IN CHINATOWN'S GAMBLING DENS, TRACKER'S WINNING DRAW IS HIS GUN. San Francisco's pleasure dens offered not only gambling, but opium, beautiful women, and a nefarious assortment of other vices. In fact, anything was available in Chinatown. Including a very nasty death. Tracker's never...

FISTFUL OF DIAMONDS AND A CREOLE PEARL JUST MIGHT SPELL TROUBLE FOR TRACKER! A mysterious telegram from his favorite wildcat sends Tracker packin' for Oklahoma territory. His wayward partner, the lascivious Dierdre Long, has cooked up a jewel scam and she wants her hombre in on it. To Tracker...

TRACKER’S SEARCH FOR A MISSING GIRL DRIVES HIM DEEP INTO THE HEART OF SAN FRANCISCO’S WHITE SLAVE TRADE! "JUST FIND MY DAUGHTER!!... AND/OR HER DIAMOND RING!" Tracker's line of work didn't usually include finding missing persons, but this one had a 25,000 ring on her finger....