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When Vera Bodine, an elderly recluse with an exceptional memory, goes missing, detective duo Lillian Pentecost and her assistant Willowjean "Will" Parker are hired to track her down. But New York City in 1947 is a dangerous place, and there's no shortage of people who want to bury the secrets that Bodine has been keeping. As the clock is ticking to find Bodine alive, circumstances conspire to pull both investigators off the case.

LOVE STINKS! BUT LOVE CAN ALSO KILL! When Moonlight and his sort of loyal sidekick, 1977 Fat Elvis, come upon a pretty young lady while fishing off of Moonlight's riverside deck, Elvis decides to serenade her with a song and dance. But when he trips and falls into the river it quickly becomes apparent the Faux King can't swim. That sets in motion a rescue by both Moonlight and the girl that will end up landing the head-case PI and Fat Elvis in hot water. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri comes yet another unputdownable ...

Can Moonlight convince the cops he's not responsible for a shipment of illicit drugs smuggled onto a plane bound for Rome? Or will he get himself killed in the process? In Moonlight Breaks Bad, the "head-case" detective tries to escape Albany, NY and the memory of his beloved Lola altogether, for a new job in Rome, Italy, as a house-detective at a 5-Star hotel. But when an Italian beauty lures him into joining the "mile-high club" while his feet are still firmly planted on the ground, Moonlight suddenly finds himself the focus of a drug smuggling event that involves not only a crooked band ...

Times have certainly changed for Moses Wine since the days of his first case in 'The Big Fix'—he's gone from cheap detective to respected private investigators in just twenty-five years. Add in a beautiful girlfriend and a lucrative business with a roster of corporate clients, and he should be feeling on top of the world. But he's not. In fact, he feels as though he's lost touch with his roots, now 'living the kind or bourgeois live I once reviled, 'as he notes. Moses Wine of the sixties has been pushed aside by the lure of vacations at Lake Tahoe, expensive meals, and unlimited access to...

Harvard dropout and ex-Special Forces operative Joe Brody is climbing the ranks in the criminal underworld. After successfully executing multiple missions for the various crime syndicates that run New York City, he has come to earn the trust and respect of the city's most dangerous denizens. Which is why his newest task—retrieving a pet pigeon snatched from a rooftop coop in Brooklyn—has Joe puzzled ... until he learns that the bird is valued at close to a million dollars.

“Here’s a soul-shaking look at gritty life on both sides of a law enforcement badge. Author and LEO Barry Ozeroff knows his genre and tells a cop-to-convict story with impressive, colorful detail. Reading the book was an absorbing experience that answered a bunch of questions I’d been a bit fearful about asking. Roll along for an exhilarating ride with Bad Apple; you’ll be delighted that you did.” —Dale Dye, Author of the award-winning Shake Davis/File Series action-adventure novels. Too often, cops are accused of operating outside the law, as seen recently in places like ...

Connie Parker mysteriously vanishes after going to the store. Detective Bradley is assigned to the case, but he has difficulty establishing any solid leads, and the discoveries he makes only leave him more baffled than before. Where is she? How did she get there? Who is involved? In the meantime, as the clock continues to tick, the chances of finding Connie alive decrease.

The classic 1970s vigilante series is back... for the first time in nearly fifty years. Ben Martin is a married, Vietnam vet who opens a produce wholesale business in New York City. Life is good until he's threatened by mobsters, who demand protection money from him to continue doing business. But they soon discover that they are the ones who need protection…from him. Instead of backing off, the mob retaliates, leading to bloodshed and tragedy, and spurring Martin into a one-man war on crime that could cost him his soul and his life. “This book works exceptionally well. Ben is a ...

Michael Mann, l'un des plus grands cinéastes contemporains, fait une entrée fracassante dans le monde du polar avec un premier roman explosif qui raconte l'avant et l'après de son film iconique Heat. Chris Shiherlis, blessé et fiévreux, tente désespérément d'échapper au détective Vincent Hanna. Quelques heures plus tôt, Hanna a tué son complice Neil McCauley lors d'une fusillade sur la piste de l'aéroport. Il est maintenant déterminé à éliminer Chris, le dernier survivant du gang.

The first novel in the classic, hard-to-find, 1980s vigilante series...now back in print for the first time in decades. "Doctor Death shoots, stabs and strangles as smoothly as most grandmothers make hot cocoa. He is as handy with a bayonet as he is with an Uzi. He spares no one." New Jersey Courier-Review Kyle Youngblood was a Green Beret in Vietnam...where he became a relentless killing machine, fighting for God and country, while longing for the humanity he left behind. They called him Dr. Death. But when he returned home to his ranch in Nevada, to his loving wife and kids, he discovered...

COLD JADE is the newest novel in the acclaimed John Rockne series by award-winning and international bestselling author Dan Ames. Once a cop in the well-to-do Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe, John Rockne was dismissed from the force after making a tragic mistake that resulted in the brutal murder of a young man. Now working as a private investigator, John is hired by a man whose daughter is missing and he soon discovers the young woman was living a secret life under the name Jade. John quickly realizes the world Jade had entered was a dangerous one filled with thieves, drugs, pimps and ...

Long Distance Murder. Nick Giordano is a renowned neurologist and family man living in the wealthy Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe. When he is murdered during a sailboat race, no one sees it coming. Private investigator John Rockne investigates the killing and soon unravels a web of greed and betrayal. A hard-hitting, action-packed story in the bestselling and award-winning John Rockne Mystery Series. "This is the best new private investigator mystery series being written today." -Amazon.com

“Fast-paced, original, engaging…” New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry Private Investigator John Rockne is determined to find out who is responsible for the brutal murder of a young man in Grosse Pointe. A contract killer known only as The Spook wants to keep the truth buried forever. Rockne quickly uncovers a series of dark secrets with ties to his own tortured past. HARD ROCK is a thrilling conclusion to the bestselling crime novel DEAD WOOD. “The first private eye novel in a long time that just swept me along for the ride.” Edgar-nominated author Craig McDonald

Something Very Bad Is Happening In Good Isle. A picture-postcard beautiful little town on the shore of Lake Michigan, Good Isle is where the wealthy buy summer homes. Bad things just don’t happen in this quaint little town. That is, until Billy “Dynamite” Dawkins, a legend in Detroit’s boxing history, disappears. John and Ellen Rockne, both in Good Isle for different reasons, are asked to look into the famous boxer’s disappearance. Before long, they are both drawn into a dark side of Good Isle that until now, had remained the town’s most notorious secret. “Fast-paced, engaging...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A Gripping Mystery Thriller That Will Keep You Guessing Until The Final, Shocking Twist. A prominent Grosse Pointe doctor is found dead, in his car, in an abandoned section of Detroit with a rope around his neck. Private Investigator John Rockne knows the victim, and soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation that blows the lid off Grosse Pointe’s glamorous façade. Soon, Rockne becomes the target of a killer whose depraved sadism knows no bounds. The trail of his friend’s brutal murder takes him into Detroit’s darkest and most dangerous ...

The Garbage Collector is back! In this sequel, the private investigator/bounty hunter known simply as The Garbage Collector discovers the body of a dead woman floating in a river near his temporary hideout. The woman, it turns out, is someone he once knew very well.

MURDER IS ON TAP. When a history professor at Marquette University is murdered, Private Investigator Burr Ashland takes on the case. Burr's investigation plunges him into a violent struggle not just between the present and the past, but between good and evil. It turns out that the dead professor had uncovered some very valuable information about one of the city's wealthiest families, and someone will do anything to keep the truth buried forever. "BEER MONEY is intoxicating!" - Amazon.com "Dan Ames is a sensation among Kindle owners who love fast-paced thrillers." -Mystery Tribune "Swept me ...

The Garbage Collector, a Detroit-area private eye/bounty hunter/hired gun is employed by a downtown law firm to retrieve "Lawyer #4" - a partner in the firm who has disappeared with confidential information she is using to blackmail the company's clients. The Garbage Collector picks up the trail in Florida, and soon finds that Lawyer #4 is much more than he bargained for. The Garbage Collector (No. 1) is a story packed with hard-hitting action, killer dialogue and a main character you won't soon forget. Classic crime fiction noir at its best. "Dan Ames is a sensation among Kindle owners who...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Anything can happen under the hot Florida sun...and usually does. The first three Wade Carver Thrillers! MOLLY: When the sun is high, the drinks are cold and the drugs are flowing freely, there’s no more dangerous place in the world than south Florida. Unless, that is, you’re Wade Carver. A PI with a mysterious background and a man who literally takes no prisoners, Carver is hired to find, and rescue, a missing girl. Like just about everthing in Florida, the truth only starts to emerge after heavy doses of sand, sun, blood, booze and…bullets. SUGAR: Wade...

A USA TODAY Bestselling Author Money buys everything...even murder. When the young daughter of a powerful Senator is kidnapped from a shopping mall in Iowa, her father calls in his old friend, retired FBI profiler Wallace Mack. Soon, Mack begins to uncover a frightening prospect: an online marketplace where wealthy psychopaths can buy their next victim. It's a race against time as Mack fights to save a young girl's life by putting The Murder Store...out of business. "Ames is a sensation among Kindle readers who love fast-paced thrillers." -MysteryTribune