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“Hop on board for a hard-edged debut that's fully loaded with car chases (particularly Mustangs), war veterans, old grudges, and abundant greed. A choppy start belies a well-executed plotline enhanced by the atmospheric Palmetto State setting.” – Library Journal (on Southern Heat) “This...

Detective Sergeant Ash Rashid wants little out of life: a steady job, a quiet place to call home, and a healthy family. Now three hundred days sober, for the first time he can see his happy ending forming on the horizon.   Then patrol officers find the body.  ...

This is book 1 of the By Death series. Death had touched anthropologist Jade Hansen in Haiti once before, costing her an unborn child and perhaps her very sanity. A year later, determined to face her own issues, she returns to Haiti with a mortuary team to recover the bodies of an American...

Now available in one bundle for the first time, the first eight books of the Jack Taggart Mystery series are gathered together, including the latest mystery, The Benefactor. "Ripped from the headlines … Easton, an ex-Mountie, knows his police work." - Globe and Mail "One...

The truth that could save two sisters lies buried deep. Private investigator and failed artist Barbara O'Grady vows “no more impossible cases”. She's rushing to ready her paintings after an unexpected acceptance to an exclusive art show. Then a desperate client storms into her office...

"Dennis' staccato prose keeps the pages turning." -- Jonathan Woods, author of BAD JUJU & Other Tales Of Mayhem And Madness Jack Barnett has had it with the private eye business. They took his license away in LA, and fearing criminal prosecution, he split town in the middle of the night for...

Truth might be deadlier than fiction, but how do you tell them apart?When a cop decides to write a crime story, the last thing he expects is for his life to spiral out of control. But that's what happens as his hero investigates a corpse, a killer brunette and blackmail through the streets of...

J.C. Simmons, Mississippi’s legendary author, returns with the tenth in the Jay Leicester (pronounced "Lester") Mysteries series. Familiar and beloved characters, Rose English, Shack Runnels, Hebrone Opshinsky, and B.W., the Siamese cat, join in a medical thriller set in the Deep South...

**With an Introduction by Max Allan Collins The author of Get Carter returns to his greatest invention, a smooth-operating hardcase named Jack Carter, who is about to burn a city down in order to silence an informant** London. The late 1960s. It's Christmastime and Jack Carter is the...

This collection is the first 3 books in the By Death series. Those books are: Touched By Death Death had touched anthropologist Jade Hansen in Haiti once before, costing her an unborn child and perhaps her very sanity. A year later, determined to face her own issues, she returns...

Stefan Kronos is an artist with psychic gifts who acts as a law enforcement consultant. He heads a community of psychics, seeking out others like him in order to assist these misunderstood souls toward a better understanding of their unique talents, learning to deal with the fundamental complications...

“Hammerhead” Jed Ounstead thought he’d traded the pro-wrestling world for the slightly less dangerous one of a bar bouncer and errand boy for his father’s detective agency, but the squared circle wasn’t quite done with him yet. When his former tag-team partner draws upon their old friendship...

Just when surefire shamus Shell Scott was thinking that unannounced naked women don't show up on his doorstep frequently enough, a Ms. Naked USA contestant and next-door neighbor comes knocking with nothing on. But the real knockout is her story: someone tried to kill her and is now dead on her floor!...

Retired San Francisco cop Brad Lyon is settling into a quieter life with his wife Ashleigh in Virginia’s mountain country, where they collect and create teddy bears. But even here, stuff happens...    The day is here—and Brad Lyon is helping his wife put the finishing touches on her best bears,...