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THE SECOND ACTION-PACKED NOVEL IN THE WYATT STORME SERIESTo help a desperate friend, ex-footballer Wyatt Storme and his hard-charging buddy Chick Easton ride shotgun on an illegal gun shipment. Things go very wrong, putting Wyatt in the crosshairs of corrupt politicians, homicidal mobsters, and rogue CIA agents. The ever-widening, deadly conspiracy soon endangers Wyatt's newswoman girlfriend...forcing him to unleash a Storme Front of justice t...

The fourth novel in the thrilling Shamus Award winning, Agatha & Anthony Award nominated series.The tenants of a Manhattan apartment in a heated dispute with their landlord believe he's using a bird-of-prey to hunt down their cats and drive them out of the building. Virginia PI Frank Pavlicek, an ex-NYPD cop and an avid falconer himself, investigates the bizarre case as a favor for his friend, another ex-cop-turned-PI. But he soon discovers th...

THE THIRD BOOK IN THE STUNNING FRANK PAVLICEK SERIESAn expert falconer is shot in the back in the wilds of West Virginia. The police believe he was the victim of a hunting accident but PI Frank Pavlicek, a falconer himself, isn't buying the story. Beatings, bombings, warnings from the FBI, and the arrest of his best friend on trumped-up charges only strengthen Pavlicek's resolve to follow a bloody trail of lies and corpses that leads to a chil...

The Anthony Award-nominated second novel in the Frank Pavlicek series.Ex-cop and avid falconer Frank Pavlicek is hired by the daughter of a philandering Virginia Congressman to find her missing twin sister. Is her disappearance related to her disintegrating relationship with her boyfriend? Or is it somehow connected to her ambitious father's re-election campaign, a tawdry sex scandal, and a hit-and-run accident that happened twenty years ago? ...

What's the PI series that Edgar winners Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Steve Hamilton, and Rick Riordan read when they want the best?This one.Thirteen years ago, NYPD Detective, Frank Pavlicek quit the force after a controversial shoot-out that left an unarmed African-American teenager dead. The divorced father of a teenage daughter, Pavlicek now works as a private investigator and hunts with a trained falcon. While hunting, he discovers th...

Sex, Thugs, and Rock-n-RollThe wild, daring, sexy and outrageously original crime novel from Macavity Award winner and two-time Anthony Award nominee Craig Faustus Buck.Nob Brown is a divorced, disillusioned thirty-something ex-cop turned bottom-feeding tabloid writer. His best friend and occasional lover, Gloria Lopes, is an LAPD detective who needs an Excel spreadsheet to chart her sex life. When Gloria slips Nob the confidential file on the...

ALL THREE OF DALLAS MURPHY'S ARTIE DEEMER NOVELS IN ONE VOLUME"Artie Deemer is a true original - the frantic, antic humor carries along the characterization and narration like twin, runaway trains, " Chicago Sun TimesArtie Deemer lives off his dog Jellyroll, star of movies TV and dog food advertising. In the Edgar-Award finalist Lover Man, Artie becomes a reluctant detective when his ex-girlfriend is killed."The writing is flip and sophisticat...

It's May in Memphis, and four bloody murders occur on the eve of the International BBQ Contest and the Cotton Carnival: a conventioneer is stabbed at an ATM machine, a gang leader and his girlfriend are executed, and a wealthy local businessman is killed in his own home while his bodyguard is napping outside the door. It's up to homicide detective J.W. Ragsdale to solve these seemingly unconnected crimes without scaring away the tourists who a...

The new, fourth novel featuring Wyatt Storme, the ex-football player turned troubleshooter that critics are hailing as the long-awaited heir to Travis McGee and SpenserVietnam vet and former Dallas Cowboys player Wyatt Storme just wants to be left alone in his remote Ozarks cabin - but violence and trouble have a knack for finding him. And when it does, he doesn't back down. This time, Chick Easton, a hard-drinking, shockingly lethal ex-CIA ag...

The PI business has been hard on Delilah West over the last year. Her husband and business partner was murdered and her last case left her with a broken arm, cracked ribs, and big medical bills, forcing her to moonlight as a waitress to pay the bills. As if that wasn't bad enough, she's jogging on a rain-slicked road when a speeding Trans Am clips her and mows down an old man. But things take a bizarre turn when the driver's mother hires Delil...

The action-packed sequel to Ted Thackrey Jr.'s Edgar Award-nominated classic.The Preacher, the ex-priest and Vietnam vet turned professional gambler, is playing in the highest stakes poker game ever dealt. His opponents are mobsters, arms dealers and terrorists. The jackpot is an atomic bomb. And if he loses, the entire city of Las Vegas will be dealt the Dead Man's Hand."The Preacher is distinctive and unique...with doses of subtle and sarcas...

Shamus & Anthony Award winning author Gar Anthony Haywood's brutally funny Hollywood thriller Man Eater makes Get Shorty and The Player look like Disney movies.Ronnie Deal's no hero. She's just a drop-dead gorgeous Hollywood movie executive having a really bad day who's in no mood to watch when homicidal thug Neon Polk puts a beat down on poor little Antsy Carruth at the Tiki Shack bar. Ronnie puts Polk's lights out with a beer bottle, Antsy t...

Blanche White returns to Farleigh, North Carolina for the summer to help her best friend with her catering business. It's a homecoming rich with the potential for new romance and fraught with the pain of facing the man who raped her at knife-point years ago but was never prosecuted for the crime. Shortly after Blanche arrives, a young woman is murdered and the clues point to the rapist. Blanche investigates, determined not to let him get away ...

The unforgettable, utterly original political thrillerIt's the early 1990's. The newly elected President learns that the CIA has a dirty secret that they've kept hidden from him and the military. The agency has developed a secret weapon called The God Project that would give them the power to conquer a nation...but somehow they've lost it. The President assigns Malcolm Keyes, a speechwriter who remembers everything he sees and hears, to uncove...

This is the action-packed novel that launched Jack Lynch's Edgar Award and two-time Shamus Award-nominated Bragg series...vaulting him into the pantheon of detective fiction masters alongside Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Dashiell Hammett, Robert B. Parker and Ross MacDonald."Tough, taut and terse... literate without being lofty, not unlike the work of Hammett himself." The Thrilling DetectiveKorean War vet and ex-reporter Peter Bragg is hire...

LADY LUCK IS DEALING DEATH... AND WAVERLY IS HOLDING A LOSING HAND.Twice selected by the New York Times as one of the Ten Best Crime Novelists of the Year, Tom Kakonis brings back Waverly, his cunning professional gambler, in what The Washington Post calls "a keenly fatalistic thriller."Waverly is in Las Vegas now, counting cards at the blackjack tables, trying to scratch together some money without getting caught. Things aren't going too bad ...

From Dallas Murphy, the Edgar-Award nominated author of Lover ManDON'T EXPLAINThe outrageously inventive third novel in what Booklist hails as "the superb Artie Deemer Series" Artie Deemer's dog Jellyroll, the star of stage, screen, and retail packaging, is getting death threats from a pair of crazed stalkers. So the twosome and Artie's live-in lover Crystal, a professional pool player, flee to a remote island off the coast of Maine, only to d...

Tough, authentic, and right on the money." - Robert B. ParkerA LONG REACHThe Denver Streets Belong to StreeterBounty hunter Streeter is a string of ex's... ex-linebacker, ex-accountant, ex-bouncer, and a four-time ex-husband ... who excels at exacting justice... with explosive results."One of the best...an entertaining series building on the traditions of the hard-boiled genre just enough to have a hell of a lot of fun with them, " Thrilling D...

THE MASTERS OF CRIME FICTION BET ON TOM KAKONIS..."Kakonis can really write. In Waverly, he gives us a wonderful character in a brutal world, " Tony Hillerman"Michigan Roll is fast, strong, harsh and beautiful, " Donald Westlake"A wonderful novel - smart, light and mean, " T. Jefferson Parker"Tom Kakonis is a master of the low-life novel. Nobody does it better." Ross Thomas"A cold-deck nightmare of high-stakes peril, " Daniel Woodrell...AND A ...

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