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ITW THRILLER AWARD FINALIST • A razor-sharp thriller featuring one of the most compelling and complex characters ever to walk the Windy City’s shadowy streets. Living alone in the dusty apartment where he grew up, Ray Nelson is a mystery to his neighbors and an unbeatable foe to the brutal...

L.A. detective Shell Scott is on a beautiful Caribbean island where voodoo and grisly murder lurk in the shadows of the postcard setting. So says the private eye, "The island couldn't be more charming with its stretches of white beaches, crystalline lagoons, and exotic bikini-clad beauties....

In hedonistic 1960s London, a police detective investigates the unexpected connections between two suspicious deaths: a call girl and a rock star. In the summer of '69, the hard-living rockers of the British Invasion still rule London when former Rolling Stone Brian Jones is found floating...

BROOKLYN JUSTICE is a wild ride through the streets of the Borough of Churches. Private investigator Nick Ventura knows trouble — but not how to keep his nose out of it. A pool of blood spreading across a casino poker table, a Buick plowing through a storefront with a dead detective aboard, a fatal...

“Kalteis will be deservedly compared to Elmore Leonard, but he is an original voice . . . A great story filled with wonderfully flawed characters” (John McFetridge, author of the Toronto Series).   Bounty hunter Karl Morgen was after Miro Knotts on a skipped bond when he found the dope dealer...

Fiddler and Fiora: Book 8 I keep thinking the past is dead. I keep being wrong. Long ago I had killed one of Uncle Jake’s murderers. I didn’t know the second hit man’s name, so I had filed it under Unfinished Business and gone on with my life. Then someone sent me a letter with the second name...

Wall Street's miasmal garbage washes up on the Jersey Shore when a small time broker falls in love: Is he attracted to the beautiful lady — or her brother's inside information? Held spellbound by a steamy, auburn-haired woman with a dubious past and a get-rich-quick, insider trading scheme,...

When the priest known as Patrick was found murdered so close to Easter Sunday, Siren swore she would avenge his death and find his killer. Whoever was stupid enough to kill a priest, clearly didn’t know he was Siren’s priest too. Taking on the gangs on the underworld, she won't stop until...

Follow Siren through a case she thought would be straight forward - follow a man’s wife and prove she is cheating on him. But Siren soon finds out that all is far from simple and straightforward. There is more than meets the eye to the adulterous Mrs. Weldon & Siren soon finds herself...

Lenny Archer had more than a fair share of tough times and hard knocks, but he had finally decided to stay in the game rather than cash in his chips. Then, two late-night intruders at the private investigation office of Archer and Pigeon violently take the choice of life over death out of Lenny’s...

In this hard-edged biker thriller, Shea Stevens goes undercover with a women’s motorcycle club eager to make its mark on the desert—when all she wants to do is ride off into the sunset.   Shea Stevens thought she was finished with outlaws. After a terrifying brush with death in Arizona’s criminal...

P.I. Stanley Bentworth is on the lam and in trouble again, this time accused of the murders of two mob enforcers. Not only is there a contract on him, the local cops want him too. This time, he’s the prime suspect with means, motive, and opportunity.Means? Both goons are killed by bullets from...

Three women can make a mess out of a man's life. The Right One—Michele, the dark-eyed French beauty who looked like she had just stepped out of a European movie. The Wrong One—Wilma, the red-headed temptress who came along at the wrong time with the right invitation. ...

Clients never tell the whole story. Harry Stoner had taken a snowy drive to Cincinnati psychiatrist Phil Pearson's mansion to hear the tale of daughter Kirsten-emotionally disturbed and missing. But the doctor left out the parts about his first wife's suicide and his second wife's bedroom eyes that...