Anthony Neil Smith: 17 books

With Choke on Your Lies, Smith presents his homage to one of his favorite detectives, Nero Wolfe, but written for the “internet porn” generation. Octavia VanderPlatts is wealthy, powerful, and “comfortable with her weight”—or to hear her say it, “a rich fat b****.” Her IQ is at...

The ’80s hair-metal band Savage Night is living the rock star fantasy. They trash hotel rooms, run through groupies, and flaunt their goods in music videos with bloated budgets. All that changes while on tour in Japan, when the band learns they owe more money than they have. They discuss their options:...

Former Deputy Billy Lafitte is a no-good, grits-for-brains, despicable and dangerous traitor Special Agent Franklin Rome is sure of it. So sure, in fact, that he’s willing to investigate outside departmental bounds. Willing to blackmail and bribe his fellow lawmen into helping him. Willing to ferret...

Deputy Billy Lafitte is not unfamiliar with the law; he just prefers to enforce it, rather than abide by it. But his rule-bending and bribe-taking have gotten him kicked off the force in Gulfport, Mississippi, and he’s been given a second chance...in the desolate, Siberian wastelands of rural Minnesota....

Because Lydia didn’t have arms or legs, she shelled out three thousand bucks to a washed up middleweight named Cap to give her ex-husband the beating of his life. But the beating turns to murder, and the murder into lust and desperation between Lydia and an underworld clean-up man. Meanwhile, overgrown...

Duluth, Minnesota, ist im Sommer ein Ferienparadies - doch im Winter einer der kältesten Orte der USA. Als der Cop Manny Jahnke zu einem Einsatz auf dem zugefrorenen Lake Superior gerufen wird, macht er eine ungewöhnliche Entdeckung: Die junge Frau, die sein Kollege gerade tot aus dem Wasser fischt,...

Die beiden Ex-Cops Manny und Joel sollen Senator Andrew Marquette dabei helfen, seine Wahl zum Gouverneur zu gewinnen. Die Chancen stehen gut, Marquette kann sich auf eine breite Unterstützung aus allen politischen Lagern verlassen. Doch als einer seiner engsten Berater verschwindet, wendet sich...

Winner of the 2012 Spinetingler Award for Best Novel: Rising Star! When two of the Twin Cities’ “Lost Boys”—young Somali men drafted to fight for terrorists back in the homeland—kill a pair of cops on his home turf, detective Ray Bleeker is left devastated. One of the dead...

Billy Lafitte is back… Back from the brink of death. Back on the Gulf Coast, his home stomping grounds, looking to reunite with his beloved one last time. Back in the sights of DeVaughn Lagrenade, a former gangbanger whose brother was gunned down by Lafitte and his partner during...

Nordic crime - American style "Hey, Manny here. I'm a cop in Duluth, Minnesota. Vacation paradise in the summer, but some of the longest, coldest winters in the USA, with more snow and ice in one blizzard than most people see in a lifetime. And we all know what happens to people during...

A failed marine, Judd can't believe his luck when Catriona falls for him. He lives in Minnesota; she's from Scotland. They work for the same company, they've messaged online for ages. But when they finally video chat, she turns out to be gorgeous. They may be thousands of miles apart, but they share...

American crime - Nordic style! "Hey, it's me again, Manny. Are you surprised? It's the dress, right? You'll get used to it. So, when we last met, I'd been fired, assaulted, chased by cops and criminals alike, and coerced into a political conspiracy. This time, I'm working for the...

In the Bakken oil field of North Dakota, they call the new guys “worms.” Ferret is a worm from Alabama, trying to kickstart a new life for his family, while back home his in-laws whisper break-up songs in his wife Dee Dee’s ear. His boss, a shadowy old guy called Pancrazio, drags...

Billy Lafitte, former Deputy-Sheriff and motorcycle gang enforcer, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. For some of his enemies, that’s still not enough punishment. Agents Colleen Hartle and Franklin Rome want Lafitte dead so bad, they’ve put a price...