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Fifteen-year old Spencer loves professional wrestling. Its the reason why he, along with his older brother Billy, started their very own wrestling promotion in their Dallas apartment complex. The fact it puts Spencer closer to Tori, Billys girlfriend and the only girl either boy knows who can take a chair shot to the head, doesnt hurt. It isnt long before RBWL-The Royal Brooks Wrestling League-have a rival in Woodland Terrace, a nearby apartment complex with their own wrestling promotion run by Eddie Tornado, an unhinged teenager with a connection to Tori and a hard-on to see Spencer and Billy fail. When Spencer breaks into Eddies home and steals a gym bag he believes holds Woodland Terraces championship belt, the feud between teenagers and promotions escalates. Before long, Spencer will find the world of professional wrestling can be more real and dangerous than anything seen on television. Praise for Hardway Hardway hits like a chair to the back of the head, but underneath all the bone-cracking action theres also a surprisingly sweet story about a boy trying to make his way in the world. If youre a fan of noir or wrestling - or both - this is one show youll want to buy a ticket to. --Nick Kolakowski, author of A Brutal Bunch of Heartbroken Saps Witty, touching, and as melodramatic as any classic pro wrestling story, Hardway stands as an excellent debut from Hector Acosta. --Angel Luis Colon, author of No Happy Endings and The Fury of Blacky Jaguar Hector Acosta delivers a fitting tribute to the passion of pro wrestling. Parts coming-of-age, crime, and nostalgia - with a bit of an 80s vibe to boot - Hardway hits all the right notes. --Christopher Irvin, author of Burn Cards and Safe Inside the Violence A novella that hits you where it hurts, forces you to grapple with your desires and defeat, but ultimately l

Blood ties have an American police detective in Poland investigating a suicide that may have been murder. A Philadelphia police detective visiting Poland gets involved when murder is suspected, and the local police turn away. Adam Kaminski, with a delegation to Philadelphia',s sister city, is meant to be a polite observer only. But a good man doesn',t walk away when he sees wrong being done, and he',s not about to start now. Visiting his family',s homeland, Adam',s been warned by his superiors to be on his best behavior. In a country that has known centuries of wars and occupation, politics are complex and layered with old prejudices and loyalties impossible for foreigners to understand. But when Adam meets a Polish cousin in Warsaw who believes his daughter was murdered, Adam is troubled by the indifference of the police&hellip, and by the strange behavior of the delegation',s Polish liaison. Adam begins uncovering clues that point to the killer, clues that lead him inexorably into an investigation of the intricate web of Polish politics and the legacy of the Secret Police. But the past isn&rsquo,t always black and white, as Adam is forced to accept as he learns more about the killer and about his own family legacy. Will looking into the murder only beget more murder? ,_,

WW2 Germany. The German war machine has invaded Poland and is advancing west toward France. In Berlin Kurt Muller, an Abwehr signalman, discovers a colleague lying dead at his radio receiver. The criminal police dismiss the death as suicide, but Kurt is not convinced. Kurt follows a trail of mysteries, witnessing several atrocities that expose the Nazi regime for what it truly is. When the trail leads him , ,to the German resistance, he faces the most difficult choices of his life. He must choose between his duty and his conscience, between his country and his family, between love and death._,

WW2 Germany. The German war machine has invaded Poland and is advancing west toward France. In Berlin Kurt Muller, an Abwehr signalman, discovers a colleague lying dead at his radio receiver. The criminal police dismiss the death as suicide, but Kurt is not convinced. Kurt follows a trail of mysteries, witnessing several atrocities that expose the Nazi regime for what it truly is. When the trail leads him , ,to the German resistance, he faces the most difficult choices of his life. He must choose between his duty and his conscience, between his country and his family, between love and death._,

A foggy night. A dog',s bark. This one just turned personal ... Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield hopes to come to terms with her confused emotions over alluring but troubling boyfriend Richie Amalfi, but her plans quickly change when her neighbor is viciously attacked. And it seems one of Richie',s former girlfriends holds the key to the situation. As the body count grows, Rebecca',s investigation takes a deadly turn when she becomes the killer',s target. , Rebecca and Richie find themselves on a danger-filled route from a cold and foggy Pacific Ocean beach to the chambers of City Hall to the back alleys of San Francisco',s Chinatown. Between killers on-the-loose, plus new as well as old ",friends", to deal with, Rebecca isn',t sure which one of them might prove to be the biggest threat to her life &hellip, or to her heart. ,_,

Jon Catlett, a misanthropic literary obsessive, is facing the loss of the only thing in the world he loves, his used bookstore, a haven for fellow weirdos, outcasts, misunderstood geniuses and malcontents. Jon has several other problems, the least of which are his love affair with a bi-polar femme fatale heiress to a thriving northern steel company or the exponentially growing opiate habit he has developed. When Jon, during a deal gone wrong, accidentally kills a fellow drug addict, getting away with murder turns out to be the least of his worries. The steps he and Paul, the obsessive-compulsive manager of Jons store, must take to cover up the killing result in the two cornering Louisvilles blossoming heroin trade. From West End gangbangers to dirty cops and crusading narcotics detectives, Jon and his unstable partner in crime must dilute their morals and thicken their skin if they are to have any hope of surviving the lucrative but deadly life theyve stumbled upon. Praise for THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS

Wiley is a man whos drifting through the remains of his torn-up life like a ghost, playing poker to make ends meet but always on the edge of the abyss, not quite sure whether his minimal efforts at life are worth the trouble. When the estranged daughter he hasnt spoken to in a year turns up gutted with a sharp knife in a cheap motel room, Wileys solitary life spins out of control and a violent showdown with both the killer and with his own bloody conscience becomes inevitable. He stalks the nasty underside of Portlands sex industry, jumping at every shadow and taking two steps back for every forward stride. But Wiley is determined to do this one thing right, perhaps to make amends to his lost daughter, or maybe to make peace with his own battered soul. Brutal, heartrending, ultimately a story of remorse, renewal, and the flickering possibility of redemption, Wileys Lament signals the emergence of a significant and compelling new voice in the grand tradition of American noir._,

Swans Nest Inn is about to open, and Kathy Grant solicits her BFF, Tori Cannon, to help spruce up her property at the marshy end of Lotus Bay, only they didn&rsquo,t count on finding a body. Who was he? What&rsquo,s his connection to their friend Paul Darcy? Meanwhile, two entrepreneurs with vast business ties are interested in helping Tori reopen the Lotus Lodge, and their real motives are as murky as the bay after a storm. Will Swans Nest open on time? Will the Lotus Lodge reopen at all?_,

On a cold morning in late April, a man and his dog discover the nude body of a young woman in the ditch alongside the picturesque Thousand Islands Parkway in Leeds County. The woman was stabbed fifteen times before being dumped.Detective Constable Kevin Walker of the Ontario Provincial Police discovers that the victim, Andie Matheson, worked for an old high school acquaintance of his. Kyle Baldwin now runs a charity that raises funds for mobile medical clinics in Kenya, but he had a brief affair with the victim several years ago that ended badly. Why did she continue to work for Baldwin? Did she see someone else after breaking up with him?At the time of the callout to the Parkway, Detective Inspector Ellie March is investigating the mayor of the nearby city of Brockville for alleged criminal wrongdoing. With two cases to manage, she and Kevin Walker must determine if the mayor is somehow connected to a wider circle of crime or if Kevin&rsquo,s friend, Kyle Baldwin, murdered his ex-lover in a fit of jealous rage._,

The tale bubbles along, a veritable gumbo brimming with gangsters, bitter mothers, cold-blooded killers, alligators, and a touch of voodoo. -Publishers Weekly. Sangster doesnt seem to be able to escape his past as a hitman, no matter how hard he tries. And now its his friend, Father Patrick, dragging him back into the life. When the head of a faded Mafia Family in Philadelphia sends the top hitman in the business, Frankie Trigger, to New Orleans to kill the Patrick, the priest goes to the only person he can think of for help...Sangster. Can the former #1 hitman overcome the present #1 hitman and save his friend, while continuing to hold on to his newfound soul? Praise for the Hitman with a Soul series... ...an ambitious, fast-paced thriller that plunges readers headlong into the world of professional hitmen...author Randisi promptly throws some fresh twists into his tale that amp up the excitement and suspense all the more. -Wayne D. Dundee, author of the Joe Hannibal PI series. Taut, clever and gritty, under the sure hand of Robert Randisi, The Souls of the Dead is an unputdownable crime story with a rough-hewn charm. Bring me more Sangster. -Gary Phillips, author of Treacherous

The girl has gone missing. Again. But this time people are trying to kill her. Trying to burn down everything she has touched or left behind. The girls surrogate father feels responsible and to assuage his guilt, he hires Richard Dean Buckner, former Saint Ansgar homicide detective turned private eye to ferret her out. Buckner was doing fine as a bare-knuckles detective for the PD until he was rendered unserviceable by a hit attempt. Early retirement doesnt sit well with that type of man, half predator and half savior. He takes the case, and from two ex-boyfriends who ruined their lives for the girl, her rapist dad, drug dealers she burned for thousands, an uncomfortable meeting at the local Incest Survivors group to whoever is setting fire to her life, Buckner is going to need all his guts, instinct and .44 Magnum to finish the job. Because in Saint Ansgar, what doesnt kill you only makes you wish it did. Praise for The Subtle Art of Brutality Richard Dean Buckner is just the hero for our modern world

When the body of a fast-living young stockbroker is found in a shallow grave, suspicion first falls on a cuckolded policeman. Lt. Joe Gunther investigates the increasingly bizarre details of the crime, but finds that hes too far behind events to prevent a second murder. Indeed, whoever is responsible always seems to be a few steps ahead, as if theres a leak on the force. Sweltering August heat does nothing to calm the increasingly agitated town selectmen, who demand results._,

When a reclusive market gardeners death proves to stem from a 20 year-old bullet wound, Lt. Joe Gunther is presented with a very cold homicide to solve. But who was the victim exactly? A deeply private man eking out an ascetic existence from a hardscrabble mountain field, Abraham Fuller was virtually unknown to his neighbors, in the manner of someone pursuing more than mere solitude. The discovery of a duffle of unmarked bills and a body buried in the garden patch suggests that Fuller had motives beyond misanthropy. Nor is it such a cold case either, as someone seems willing to kill to ensure that old secrets remain buried._,

Joe Gunther, a Brattleboro, Vermont, cop, is the head of the new Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI), a joint task force charged with statewide responsibility for major crimes. In The Marble Mask, the VBIs first case takes the force north to Stowe, where a 50-year-old corpse has turned up in a crevasse on Mt. Mansfield. Some of the more interesting minor characters in author Archer Mayors long-running series about the amiable elder sleuth make return appearances here as Joes teammates--like one-armed Willy, a former wife-beater whos now playing footsie with Sammie Martens, one of Joes favorite colleagues. When the frozen stiff turns out to be a (formerly) big-time Canadian crime boss named Jean Deschamps, who disappeared after World War II, Joe and his gang cross the border to work with the Mounties, the Surete, and the local cops in Sherbrooke, where Deschampss son Marcel is involved in a turf war with the Hells Angels and a rival gang of thugs. Old secrets and intrigues come to light while an intricate plan to frame a dying man for a crime half a century old forms an interesting puzzle thats not fully revealed until the last couple of pages._,

Brattleboro is the epitome of scenic Vermont. Quaint in its architecture and plainspoken in its politics, it dominates the states southeast corner as both an employment hub and an election year powerhouse-all while looking like a genteel, postindustrial New England mill town. And yet there is darkness here, too, and nobody knows it better than Joe Gunther. Over the years he has battled drug pushers and corporate swindlers, grappled with environmental conspirators, and foiled gangs and home invaders. But while usually successful in his fight for the towns future, Gunther hasnt always come out on top... Thirty years earlier store owner Klaus Ober-feldt was robbed and beaten senseless. When Klaus died six months later, a case of assault and battery became first degree murder. The guilty man eventually appeared to be a well-known, small-time crook, but enough time had elapsed for him to vanish. Gunther, distracted by his wifes losing struggle with cancer in the same hospital where Klaus was slipping from life, did something that would plague him for the rest of his career

A friendly poker game leads Henry Swann out to Hollywood where he tries to find the man, Rusty Jacobs, responsible for embezzling $1,000,000 from his client, and then bring back the dough. Swann finds Jacobs, but the mercurial wannabe film producer is involved in a surefire movie project aimed at the growing Christian market. And the money? Well, it seems to have vanished into thin air. At the same time, thanks to his irrepressible partner, Goldblatt, Swann finds himself knee-deep in the New York City art world, as he tries to get justice for another client whos possibly been defrauded on the purchase of a valuable painting that may or may not be a fake. As if this isnt enough to keep him busy, in the midst of these two troubling cases, Swann finds that the teenage son whom he hasnt seen in a dozen years has run away from his grandparents Minnesota home and, chasing after a girl, has possibly become involved with a cult. And so, a guilt-ridden Swann has to take time out from his paying cases to find his son._,

Is Jack Reacher a serial killer? Make some coffee. Youll read all night. Lee Child, #1 World-Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers A serial killer returns after years of inactivity in this gripping new suspense thriller. The green paint bathtub killer had Reacher Running Blind back in the day. The New York FBI team says Reacher was the serial killer then and is still the serial killer. But FBI Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar believe a copycat may be on the loose.... Five powerful players are determined to win at all costs. The sixth only wants to stay alive. Not all can win. None plan to fail. But when Reacher is judge, jury, and executioner, Otto knows that collateral damage is inevitable. Authorized and Recommended by Lee Child, creator of the Jack Reacher thrillers, including The Midnight Line and Past Tense. Diane Capris Award-winning and Bestselling Hunt for Jack Reacher Series continues! Lee Child Gives Diane Capri Two Thumbs Up! Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character - I love her. Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers The Hunt for Jack Reacher series enthralls fans of John Grisham, Lee Child, Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, and more

Voller Nervenkitzel und Spannung, aber auch klug und menschlich. Kim Otto ist eine groartige Figur. Ich liebe sie. - Lee Child, Autor der Jack-Reacher-Krimis Wenn man es sich mit den Freunden eines Mannes verdirbt, sollte man anfangen, seine Feinde auszuquetschen ... Keine schlechte Logik, wenn man einen Mann wie Jack Reacher jagt. Die FBI Special Agents Kim Otto und Carlos Gaspar haben das Gluck, dass genau so ein Feind plotzlich in Tampa, Florida auftaucht. Colonel Thomas Weston gehort nicht zu den Guten. Vor sechzehn Jahren ermittelte Reacher gegen Weston, weil dieser seine eigene Familie getotet haben soll. Jetzt ist Weston, gegen den wegen zahlreicher Verbrechen ermittelt wird, wieder im Land und er hegt einen Groll, wie es nur ein wahrer Psychopath vermag. Als Otto und Gaspar in Reachers und Westons gemeinsamer Vergangenheit stobern, entdecken sie, dass die beiden nicht die Einzigen sind, die an diesem Spiel beteiligt sind. Westons Verbrechen haben in Tampa fur viel Unmut gesorgt, auch bei drei sehr vertrauten Gesichtern ... Die Reihe Jagd auf Jack Reacher trifft in dieser lang erwarteten Fortsetzung auf die Jagd nach Gerechtigkeit, Diane Capris andere Krimireihe (im Original

At the turn of the century nature became man',s greatest enemy and threatened the survival of mankind and especially of the Emperor',s bloodline. Earth became inhabitable at night and nature unleashed it',s fury. A special team from all over the world is sent on a rescue mission. It is not what it seems as a rescue mission became a quest for survival. It is a story of strong love, betrayal, honor and death. When you are all destined to die what does it take to survive. Who will rescue the rescuers?_,