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The cops told Joe Moran he was through as a private eye. They'd revoked his license, taken away his gun permit, and given him orders to get out of the state. They'd had enough of his two-fisted methods and the trickery by which he'd short-circuited the law to gain his clients' brand of justice. But it was only the beginning...
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In the summer of 1990, Dr. Bill Brockton-a bright, ambitious young forensic scientist-is hired by the University of Tennessee to head, and to raise the profile of, the school's small Anthropology Department. Six months later, the ink on his contract barely dry, Brockton is called to a gruesome crime scene in a rural area to identify a corpse and determine how the woman died. But the case-one of Brockton's first murder investigations in Tennessee-could...
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A light-hearted mystery with a twist on the classic gumshoe Max Shadow is no ordinary guy. He sleeps during the day, goes on the prowl at night, and is busy solving cases like any other gumshoe, with one rare exception-he's also a highly trained, bonafide ninja. Not the assassin kind; that's not his style. The gadgets, gizmos, and garb, though? Now, that's more like it. In "Shadow: Ninja Detective," Max scours the rooftops, scoping out his latest...
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If he wants her love
He might have to show his hand
DJ Diamond's partnership with Sadie Montclair is purely professional. But when a high-stakes poker game DJ organized turns violent, Sadie refuses to leave his side. Hiding out in a snowbound cabin gives them a chance to explore the feelings they've kept from each other…and makes them an easy target for the gangsters who want them dead.
From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice...
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Blindsided by his mother's deathbed confession that his father is still alive, thirty-four-year-old defense lawyer Wardel Hawkins, Jr. (Hawk) risks everything to prove Sandman-responsible for three deaths thirty years prior-deserves clemency and forgiveness.When Hawk steps off the water taxi onto Caye Caulker and lies to Chapie Nels, the island's unofficial ambassador, as to his identity, the shifting sands of a coerced alliance cracks open a Pandora's...
6) Hobo Jingo
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Hobo Jingo continues the electrifying tale that first rode the rails in King of the Hobos. The second Great Depression rages on in America. Derek Parnell-notorious vigilante and champion of the American hobo-has been living in exile in Costa Rica the past three years after having been framed for a Colorado mass murder. In the middle of the night he gets a call from his panicked daughter. Her fiancé has been murdered! The large FBI bounty on his head...
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In the acclaimed Once Upon a Lie, Maggie Barbieri introduced Maeve Conlon, a single mother and bakery owner hiding dark secrets behind her cookie-cutter suburban life.
Now, Maeve's moving on with everyday life when the unthinkable happens: her father dies of a massive heart attack. Maeve's mother died when Maeve was very young, and growing up, it was always just her and her father. But on the day of his funeral, Maeve learns a shocking secret. She...
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Oddball receives an envelope containing a USB key and a brief note addressed to 'David' and signed 'Uncle Stan'. Few people know Oddball's real name but, more to the point, he knows nobody called Uncle Stan. It will be a few days before he discovers that he does, indeed, have a relative of that name. Unfortunately, Stan has already fallen foul of the London mob and the contents of the USB key don't make any sense. While investigating, Oddball comes...
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