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In this debut novel, a self-righteous team of vigilantes don luchador (Mexican wrestling) masks and bring their own swift brand of violent justice to anyone who would dare harm a child. Their actions however are quickly misinterpreted by the media and attention-starved online followers&hellip, and what was originally meant to halt the cycle of violence, only perpetuates it.  ,_,

Speak easy. Prohibition-era New York swims in a sea of illegal booze and it seems like the party will never end. Even so, dark deeds and bad men lurk behind the good life. Freshly returned from Europe&rsquo,s conflicts, strong and silent Riley wants to rush back to the farm but smooth-talker Cornelius aspires to a new life. As a crime reporter amidst the city&rsquo,s icons, from the Algonquin Round Table&rsquo,s glitterati to the seedy underbelly where deals get done and so do people, Cornelius takes a deadly ringside seat for the unveiling of plans that will change the future of organized crime. Back in Missouri, the daughter he&rsquo,s never seen and a son whose father has yet to come home give Riley the strength to resist the siren call of adventure, though dark scars from the past threaten to surface. When tragedy strikes close to home and Cornelius falls into the clutches of a criminal mastermind, Riley heads east to settle accounts.The city that never sleeps had better watch out. Riley and Cornelius are back! Still traipsing through the 20th Century, they stumble across the secrets behind three of its great unsolved mysteries along the way. Dorothy Parker, Al Capone, Damon Runyon, Lucky Luciano, Arnold Rothstein, J.P. Morgan, Albert Anastasia, and a Marx brother or two &mdash, any one of them might make the difference between life and death for our duo._,

THE RED SCARF ,Roy Nichols needs to find some quick cash to keep from losing his motel. The new highway was supposed to go through, providing plenty of business, but now it&rsquo,s been delayed. , The bank refuses to help, and his brother turns him down. Desperate and on the way back home, he catches a ride with a bickering couple named Vivian and Teece. They start drinking, then Teece gets spooked, and crashes the car. That&rsquo,s when Nichols discovers that his travelling companions have been carrying a briefcase full of cash. Teece appears to be dead, and Vivian confesses that they have robbed the mob, and begs him to help her escape. But to do that, Nichols will have to lie to his wife Bess&hellip,to the cops&hellip,and ultimately, to a very dangerous man named Radan. ,A KILLER IS LOOSE ,Ex-cop Steve Logan is down on his luck. With a baby on the way, Logan decides to pawn his last pistol to a bartender friend. On his way, he rescues a stranger, Ralph Angers, from being hit by an oncoming bus. Angers is an eye surgeon and a Korean War vet, and he has plans to build a hospital in town. Unfortunately, he is also prepared to kill anyone and everyone who gets in the way of his plans. So when Angers manages to get a hold of Logan&rsquo,s Luger, he also drags his rescuer into a nightmare of murder and insanity. Logan becomes a hostage to Angers&rsquo, plans, and there will be no mercy to anyone who gets in his way. , ,_,

AN UNFAITHFUL HUSBAND, AN AGGRIEVED WIFE, AND A CUNNING PLAN FOR REVENGE THAT&rsquo,S TOO CLEVER BY HALF. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?Becky Miller is stunned to discover that her husband, Walter, is having an affair with a scatter­,brained cocktail waitress. In retaliation, she devises a clever plan that will place her philandering husband squarely in the sights of both the police and the IRS before she divorces him and leaves him to the tender mercies of his dopey girlfriend. But as she sets her scheme into motion, things go tragically wrong and Becky winds up a victim of her own carefully-orchestrated plan. Shortly thereafter, a female torso floats to the surface of a Phoenix canal and the case is assigned to hom­,icide detective Sean Richardson and his partner, Maggie McClinton. DNA tests confirm that the victim is Becky Miller. But what seems at first to be a fairly straight-forward investigation turns out to be much more complicated, and as their case becomes increasingly convoluted, Sean and Maggie must sort through the havoc that Becky Miller has left in her wake and somehow find the solution to an especially gruesome crime before anyone else pays the ultimate price for a scheme that&rsquo,s gotten way out of hand.",FATAL BLOW is a meticulous and engrossing procedural &ndash, from the perspective of both the dogged detective and the surprising, enterprising criminal.",&mdash,Lou Berney, Edgar Award winning author of The Long and Faraway Gone&ldquo,Beautifully written and tautly plotted--one of the best procedurals I&rsquo,ve read in years.&rdquo, &mdash, Christine Carbo, Award-winning author of The Wild InsidePraise for the Sean Richardson Series&ldquo,No Place to Die&rdquo, is a two-in-one treat, a convincing police procedural bolted to a nail-biter suspense novel. A good novel gives y

When racktrack owners who have banned prominent race horse owner, Ted Tilley, begin being murdered under strange circumstances, Jack Doyle steps in to tryand solve the crimes. He almost finds more th

When Formula One champion and covert agent Devlin Lucchesi and his HELL Ranger crew return to the Monte Carlo Grand Prix to win big, a rival racer is fatally poisoned at the finish line. Devlin and the HELL Rangers suspect tainted grappa. They investigate Aurora Vineyard, set atop a hotly contested aquifer in the Italian Dolomites. Threatened by extreme water rights activists and cut-throat industry competitors, CEO Erika Aurora, industry-dubbed &ldquo,the Bloodsucker,&rdquo, hires Devlin and his crew to hunt down her company&rsquo,s usurper. The cases intertwine. Devlin deduces that the Aurora siblings may be tangled in a bloody power grab. Things heat up fast when the killer begins targeting the estate&rsquo,s sibling owners one-by-one.Soon it becomes clear that a thirst for control and revenge is quenched only with a poison formula derived from the vineyard&rsquo,s secret family recipe. The stakes soar when the formula&rsquo,s lethal reach extends to the thousands gathered at a Palio horse race in Siena, including Devlin&rsquo,s son, and to the world leaders of a global water summit in Verona. Devlin must risk everything to hunt down the killer in time to halt a poisonous calamity that threatens worldwide ramifications._,

THE MECANA SERIES continues in this action-packed follow-up to WHEN THE NIGHT BIRD SIGNS and HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR TWISTED JUSTICE a Mecana novella by John L. Lansdale Newlywed private detectives Thomas Mecana and Darcie Connors have barely shaken their honeymoon jetlag before taking on another case in the Lone Star State. Dallas Homicide Detective Sunday Verves is looking into the suspicious deaths of local drug runners when she discovers a potential suspect that hits too close to home &ndash, Angela, the daughter of her superior officer, and Angela&rsquo,s lawyer boyfriend. When the trail leads her south of the border, Verves enlists her old friend Mecana and his new wife into tracking down Angela and her boyfriend. What they discover down Mexico way turns the case on its head and sends the group searching for clues to a bigger piece of the puzzle. Ultimately, Sunday Verves finds she must choose between avenging wrongs of the past or righting wrongs of the present. Sometimes the only choice is TWISTED JUSTICE. ### John L. Lansdale was born and raised in East Texas. He has worked as a comic book writer for Tales from the Crypt, IDW and other publications. He co-authored the Shadows West and Hell',s Bounty novels with his brother Joe R. Lansdale. He is the author of Zombie Gold, and with BookVoice Publishing has released Slow Bullet, Horse of a Different Color, When the Night Bird Sings, Long Walk Home and several other titles. ### What Others are Saying about John L. Lansdale ",Mickey Spillane fans will welcome this page-turner...Lansdale effectively delays revealing the novel&rsquo,s big secret until the end. Those who like their thrillers with a heavy dose of violent action will be satisfied.", - Publishers Weekly review of Slow Bullet ",This is an entertaining, science

In pursuit of new challenges and dealing with the roller coaster of the eighties, Ambulance chasing jet-setter Mario Luna is a survivor, a lover, and a man of his time. With his crew of lovely girls, he works from Pasadena, flying where planes crash, helping families survive disaster. At his side, we find numbers whiz Jo, former corner girl Pixie, quiet Niley, versatile private eye Tricia, and his partner in pleasure Letty.  ,Riding the wings of ambition, Mario has turned his gift of gab into a lucrative life. He cannot resist the lure of easy cash. Colombians Pepe, Camila and Olga run the Camacho empire, and with their money to burn, they entice Mario to use his gifts to further the Camacho empire known as LAI, Latin American Enterprises. ,Not everyone jumps aboard the Camacho gravy train. Mario&rsquo,s girlfriend Melina Marron, an entrepreneur in her own right, warns Mario  ,he may be getting caught up in dirty money. Not that Mario is good at listening to advice, especially when he sniffs profits to be made. What is he getting into? One thing is for sure. Mario has come a long way from his two bedroom childhood apartment facing Hollenbeck Park in East Los Angeles._,

Sailor Home From Sea from the journals of T.R. Macdonald

A Murderer Stalks Music Row",Go with the flow,", Jill always said. ",Get swept up in it. Let it take you where it will. That',s the excitement of this business.",Jill Edgerton',s eye for talent and Sarah Ann Boswell',s nose for business have made Edgerton Group one of the fastest growing talent management firms on Nashville',s fabled Music Row. With a stable of artists that includes rising stars Stella Wayne, a blue-eyed beauty from Oklahoma with an angelic face and seductive, devilish voice, and Jared Parson, a brash, young singer from Texas whose sultry voice and rugged good looks rocket him to the top of the charts, Edgerton Group is the envy of the country music industry.Success breeds passion.Passion breeds obsession.Obsession breeds homicide._,

A WW2 spy story. 1943. Kurt Muller and a young colleague parachute into southern Germany to rescue a British-Canadian agent. The Allies have won the battle of the Atlantic, and German forces are retreating on all major fronts. The war in Europe is effectively over, but the Nazis will never accept defeat. An Abwehr deserter and member of the German resistance -- the Black Orchestra -- with a price on his head, Kurt quickly finds himself in a deadly race to prevent the Nazis from developing the first atomic bomb and changing the outcome of the Second World War._,

Kennel club show week in New York City is a special time for dog lovers. Kate Killoy is here for the first fashion show of her designs for dog lovers and to exhibit her champion Samoyed Dillon. When mistaken identity involving international intrigue threatens Kate',s life, Harry Foyle, a former math geek for the FBI, comes to her rescue. But Harry finds going undercover to keep this sassy dog nut alive is an equation where the solution leads to the unexpected variable--love. Referred to by a reviewer as ",Die Hard", meets ",Best in Show,", this fast paced adventure is a dog lover',s delight. Between the wild adventures of Kate',s crew of highly trained precission obedience team, to the performance of owners and dogs in the fashion show, to the breath taking flight from gunmen determined to kill Kate, to the final standoff at the country',s most famous dog show, the story will keep you involved and entertained up to the final minutes. The author',s more than forty-five years breeding and showing Samoyeds, gives you a view from the inside of this exciting an challenging world and her years creating picture knit designs and knitting books for dog lovers brings the world of fashions with a very doggy twist to life. , This is the perfect read for an evening with your own member of the ",man',s best friend", club at your side._,

Fly Diamonds is a brilliant gemstone. It is a complex narrative and fascinating story that follows the fate of young Mexican Juan Merlo, who escapes the slums of Tijuana only to disappear in Mexico City. It is a sophisticated book in which jewels, insurance money, law enforcement, and art are woven into an unusual story. In Fly Diamonds the fate of a slum dweller, his aviary full of homing pigeons, and his widowed mother living among the gangs of Mexico portrays the encounter of the two cultures, American and Mexican, through Juan&rsquo,s struggle to avenge his father&rsquo,s death. His ingenious plot to steal diamonds crisscrosses the border and puts into action US law enforcement. Two narratives are intertwined here

 ,It&rsquo,s the swinging seventies. Free love has swept across California, and gangs are wrangling their share of the East LA pie. Political correctness does not exist. Mario Luna is not only up to his neck in hip, hot California girls, he has pulled out all the stops, and is well on the way to becoming the top ambulance chaser in the county. At least, that&rsquo,s the way it looks until his life turns upside down.Mario&rsquo,s line of work could be making him a little paranoid. At first he thinks someone is following him, then thebodies start dropping. Is a gang thug out of his past after him, or a rival ambulance chaser, or even a rival law firm? Who wants Mario out of the way--and why?Follow the life of Mario Luna, conceived in Ambulance Chaser Book I, Woman in Jeopardy, Growing up in Ambulance Chaser Book 2, ,Coming of Age.  ,All grown up in Ambulance Chaser Book III

In a city loved by many while understood by few, Sarah finds her New Orleans office in the center of a terrorist threat just weeks away from the national championship football game. As game day approaches and more clues point to the mastermind behind the operation, she works with a variety of interesting players to find out who is trying to carry out the threat - and why.  ,  , Using technology that could be employed in domestic security today, the author has created a modern page-turning thriller.  ,What could easily be a realistic historical account is in fact a novel flavored with excitement yet balanced with enough eye-opening reality to entertain readers.  ,Enjoy this page-turner while vacationing on the beach or nestled in front of the fire - it&rsquo,s sure to keep you interested._,

WW2, 1943. Kurt Mü,ller, fugitive member of the German resistance, is working for British Intelligence in London, when he learns that Gudrun, the love of his life, has been abducted from their home in Ireland. He goes AWOL and accompanies his colleague, Erika, to France. Erika is on a mission for SOE. The two stories diverge before coming ,together in a climactic ending. ,The third thriller in the Black Orchestra series._,

After surviving another attempt on his life, ,Mario Luna sold off ,the case sources he had for car accidents ,and personal injury cases in Los Angeles. Having no idea what he wants to do in the future, he goes on a tour of Europe, and along the way, meets Sami and Jason who will change his life. Sami is a sexy, wealthy doctor, and her friend Jason ,is ,an aviation insurance lawyer. What he learns from them will change his life, and the lives of his team.Mario was conceived in Mario 1

Meet Preston &ldquo,Presto&rdquo, Kane &hellip, freelance writer, former newspaper reporter, part-time researcher for a Pacific Grove private investigator. When Presto is assigned to ferret out background information on the upcoming auction of a legendary gem, it all seems part of a normal day&rsquo,s work&mdash,until a young woman turns up dead in Presto&rsquo,s shower and he&rsquo,s the prime suspect. Suddenly Presto is a man with a target on his back, the grand prize in a cat-and-mouse game played out in renowned locales throughout the Monterey Peninsula, from Pacific Grove&rsquo,s quaint cottages to the mansions in Carmel Highlands and beyond. Even though Presto&rsquo,s favorite weapon is his wry wit, he is forced to learn to shoot straight and drive like Mario Andretti as he eludes his pursuers and digs for the truth. The stakes ratchet up with players ranging from old money families to a crooked cop, Hollywood wannabes and a feuding pair of high-tech moguls&mdash,all against the fog-shrouded backdrop of the world famous Monterey Peninsula.  , Fans of mysteries with a fast-thinking, wise-cracking amateur sleuth will take an instant liking to Preston Kane &hellip, &hellip, while anyone who has fallen in love with the beauty and heritage of the Monterey Peninsula won&rsquo,t want to miss A Quaint Town for a Killing_,

A German secret agent threatens the D-Day landings.February 1944. British Intelligence is using German double agents to deceive the German high command about Operation Overlord &ndash, the location chosen for the D-Day landings.When they pick up an unauthorized transmission from near London, the whole deception plan is thrown into jeopardy.And Kurt Mü,ller is the main suspect. , ,To save Operation Overlord and clear his name, Kurt must find the rogue agent and silence him._,