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Matt Kile, ex-cop and ex-con, and current smart aleck has built a career writing mysteries. Garson Talmadge sold weapons to Saddam Hussein, then came to America and married Clarice, a woman half his age. When Clarice is arrested for murdering her husband, Matt takes the job of investigator for her defense attorney, with suspects stretching from the U.S. into Europe and the Middle East.

The 2nd in the Mike Angel Mystery series of complex, historical, erotic novels is a thriller full of interesting characters and plenty of serious conflicts. Set in Chicago and New Orleans in 1961. 32 yr old Mike is determined to get answers and stop for no one, especially after the woman he loves...

Mike is shot after chasing a naked blonde down a dark street one wet night in Portland, Oregon. His near death experience, surgery and a long recovery convince him that the time’s right to marry Molly Bennett. But first Mike vows to catch the killer, whose victim turns out to be the granddaughter...

When a grotesque and melodramatic female seeks protection from a convict Mike helped to send up, his scar needles heat up. After she slips Mike a mysterious substance in his coffee he suffers near total paralysis. While she rifles his office, he can only watch her take a file and leave. The next morning...

MILO PERETTI is back in Rome to take over the running of his late uncle’s detective agency. When the body of a businessman is found at an office nearby in Trastevere, the grieving mother refuses to believe her son took his own life. But with the Polizia di Stato preparing to close the case as suicide, will Peretti ever really uncover the truth? And will justice ever be done?

Melvin Marcus is an evil man. Violence begets violence. Mel is miserable through his young life. Tormented and beat by bullies, too small to fight back. Once reaching puberty Melvin’s physical characters change and he becomes a man too quickly. The story reflects the hardships...

In this complex mystery set in 1964 amidst racial divisions in Chicago, Mike receives an anonymous note with a 1934 $10,000 Federal Reserve Note with a cryptic message that the bill is payment for an unspecified future trouble. Tracking down the sender spins into a 40 year old kidnaping case involving...

In this complex mystery set in Portland, Oregon, 1965 Mike befriends an eccentric veteran with a drinking problem, whose estranged wife has been sleeping with hoodlums and racketeers. One night the man shows up at Mike’s office asking for a ride to the US side of the Canadian border. On the way...

"Revenge and justice burn across Texas in this gripping, grisly shootout" -- KIRKUS REVIEWS (02-10-12)Jubal Dark has been the Sheriff of Francine County, Texas for twenty years, but Dark's enemy, Texas Ranger Buck Nevins, has convinced a Houston homicide detective to run against him.Dark's...

Julia Gateswood hires reluctant PI, Mike Angel, to find her sister, but Julia’s social position and the sordid past of the sister make this anything but a simple case. Julia’s a mysterious ex-beauty queen, who married for ambition to congressman Henry Gateswood,running for a vacated US Senate...

Sally McGinn was sixteen, beautiful, innocent. Maybe she was too innocent to realize that in 1943 Mobile was not the gentile, provincial Southern gem she expected it to be. The steamy Gulf Coast city was under siege by thousands who had left the backwoods and overworked cotton fields for booming...

Vikings pillage a sword from a Spanish monastery and Ragnarr is imbibed with a curse. Forged for a prince with the finest steel and set with precious jewels the sword attracts the attention of Athelstan the first king of all England and an exchange of gifts between king's influences the history of...

Called upon to defend an acrimonious libel action on behalf of an important newspaper client, newly appointed law firm partner Alex Harris never once expected to find his efforts impeded by wanton disregard for ethics and blatant self interest that crossed all boundaries. Not only on the part of his...

Darlie Routier is on death row in Texas, convicted of the murder of one of her two sons, who were killed in the early morning of June 6, 1996. The media coverage of the investigation into the murders of Devon and Damon Routier depicted the crime as another heartless mother whose children were getting...