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Speaker Hawke wants things to be better for her than they were for her mother when she grew up on the Tohono Oodham Reservation outside Tucson. That wish leads her to take John Overland for a short walk early one Saturday morning. She smokes a joint just as two pickups race across the valley below them. And that starts everything that follows. The next morning, she goes to visit her friend and discovers a blood bath. Dorindas parents are gruesomely dead and her friend is missing. That spurs John Overland into action, into a mystery where he will meet FBI agents, crooked cops, drug dealers from Nogales, Mexico, and old Indians who live in hovels dug out of hillsides. It all leads to something he suspects might be a drug hit on Dorindas parents. The deeper he digs into the death of her parents, however, the more he is convinced that something hideously heinous is about to happen in southern Arizona. Though it is difficult to accept, he does believe one thing

Follow police Lieutenant James MacDonald (Mac) as he tries to solve The Claw Hammer murder case. While being constantly interrupted with assorted Armed robbers, gang fights, gun fights and domestics.

When Cody, a Texas private investigator, is hired to look into what should be a straightforward missing person case, he soon realizes that hes taken on more than he bargained for. The facts surrounding the disappearance of Fort Worth businessmans daughter, twenty-year-old Mandy Traft, are far from clear. Did she run off with her boyfriend? Or has she been kidnapped? With each step Cody takes, the case becomes increasingly dangerous. Before long, hes been warned off, and bodies are starting to tumble. He knows he should get out while he still can. But he cant. Not until he finds Mandy. TEXAS WIND is James Reasoners debut novel that has achieved a legendary status since its publication in 1980. Considered by many to be one of the best private eye novels ever written, TEXAS WIND is finally back in print. Includes a new introduction by Ed Gorman._,

Dead Secret? presents a view of a grisly homicide investigated by a detective who experiences stress as a single parent coping with a new romance and unexpected help from a flirtatious woman who complicates his investigation with her adventurous inpulsiveness._,

A thoughtful, intricate detective story set in Boston, Massachusetts. Jennifer Eastman, the beautiful twenty four year old daughter of a Boston police detective works as a private investigator for her older brother. Professionally, Jennifer brings hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Eastman Agency as she solves case after case. Personally, she pursues a romantic relationship with her childhood friend, Gary Prescott. You dont love me. You love having sex with me as I do you. Jennifer is forced to deal with the physical and emotional ramifications of a life threatening traumatic experience. Her search for closure challenges her abilities and threatens her relationship with Prescott. Prescott a tough, hardnosed detective and long time friend of the Eastmans leaves the Agency to go to work for a major New England crime boss. His toughness, This is a 9mm at the back of your head. If I were to pull the trigger, not even your own mother would recognize you. enables him to control and legitimize many of the gangsters companies. Certainly an interesting and thought provoking novel._,

In the wealthy suburb of Edina, Minnesota, Peter Kaufman has been a long-time serial wife abuser. He s terrorized four ex-wives and started on his fifth. Occasionally over the years, these women have been getting together for mutual support_,

Ten short stories designed to imitate and mock some of the great fictional detectives of the 20th Century in a unique and entertaining style. This is a surreal but very humorous insight into the crime genre. James Heafield and crime-solving partner Oliver Bradbury are two detectives who investigate murders. Individually neither can admit to being too bright but, with help from each other, they somehow manage to trace the killers and arrest them. Along the way, Heafield and Bradbury come across many sub-plots, unusual situations and recurring characters that will have you laughing for hours at quick-witted one-liners._,

PI Gary Charboneau made a horrible mistake, and the love of his life nearly paid the ultimate price. She has physically recovered from her injuries, and with the help of two friends, she seems to be coping with the mental trauma. Then she is arrested for murder and she begins planning her final escape. Gary has to rescue her or the guilt eating at him will never go away. Gary plans to stop the prosecution any way he can. Then a dirty cop, a bounty-hunting grandmother and two professional hit men intervene and he finds himself digging his own grave. John Orr, San Jose Mercury News Charboneau, despite his dark whisperings to himself, is a pretty likable guy, [but he] breaks and enters homes to install illegal wiretaps, he . tortures people for information, he gets someone to steal evidence for him. Id have more trouble with Charboneaus work if I hadnt myself seen police detectives find suspects using techniques that would never be heard of in a court of law, then lying about how they broke their cases. Lin Rolens, Santa Barbara News-Press Mr. Murphy has structured Charboneau to make him both attractive and a little creepy. Charboneau is a nationally known private investigator who changes his looks to keep his visibility down, he knows his business, is intelligent and clever and tough. Never hesitant to do what is most expedient to get what he needs, Charboneau plants bugs in phones and tracking devices on cars, he disguises himself and lies where he thinks its appropriate to ferret out the truth. Clever and technologically sophisticated, he does what the police dare not. Bob Behme, Santa Maria Times Gary Charboneau, a flawed and impatient private investigator, is an exciting find. [He] gathers evidence illegally, uses listening devices that may not hold up in court, [and] bullies suspects. Just when you think youve got things figured out, there is another zag. Charboneaus need to find the truth adds up to a fast-paced read. .you might not always e

From crimes of heart and crimes of violence, A CITY EQUAL TO MY DESIRE effortlessly guides you through the narrows of human existence in all its forms. In this selection of new stories, James Sallis, author of the acclaimed Lew Griffin series of detective novels, both entertains and engages the mind with stories that will linger in memory long after theyve been experienced. Sallis wants to take your experience of the world, mutate it to the edge of recognition, and then deliver it back before your eyes like a coin pulled from behind your earlobe. And in this way, he makes you see and feel, all over again, the meaning, the beauty-and, pointedly sometimes, the horror-of being human. Jack OConnell from his introduction_,

A Northern California fishing town. Mysterious activities in the abandoned cannery district late at night. A dead body and a man who can no longer avoid facing his own dark past . When David Jackson returns to Portola Landing to investigate his childhood friend Peter Santangelos untimely death, he rejects the official verdict of suicide and goes deep into the small towns secrets to discover the truth. But the darkest secret lies in his own past-a past he thought dead and buried-and now it threatens to destroy him._,

Buckner looked into the wagon bed at the body, which now lay on its back, one bold onlooker having turned it to facilitate the viewing. He nodded in agreement. His lips twisted in disgust, and he found himself wondering again why he had taken a job that required him to look at the bodies of people dead by violence. James Buckner, the new police chief of Corinth, Missouri, must root out corruption and incompetence in his department, hire new officers, and avoid the pitfalls of small-town politics. When a boy playing hooky from school discovers a womans body under the snow at the train station, Buckner drops everything else to focus on this startling development. During his investigation, he relies on the help of his friends, Dr. Jeff Peck, black saloonkeeper Elroy Dutton, and the attractive vice-principal of Corinth High School, Judith Lee. Buckner discovers the dead woman is a local farmers mother, but he faces red tape when the county sheriff warns him not to go out of his jurisdiction in questioning potential suspects. However, its when Buckner hires two black police officers in the strongly Southern town of Corinth that he faces potential career suicide. Can Buckner find the murderer and save his job before racial tensions explode?_,

On a dangerous trip to his native Iran, Frank Tavana is determined to find his close friend and colleague Jerry Lockwood, an American professor visiting Tehran to study the long-term effects of the 1979 Revolution. Imprisoned on false charges by the tyrannical ruling mullahs, Jerry has been sentenced to death as a CIA spy. All attempts by the U.S. government have failed to get his release or even any news about his fate. Arriving in Tehran, Frank runs head on into the mullahs ruthless rule. With the secret help of old friends, now high-ranking officials, Frank finds out that Jerry is still alive, but only a week from execution. A daring rescue attempt cements the bonds of the small group and creates a secret mission dedicated to opposing the mullahs plans to spread their oppressive rule with the aid of the ultimate weapon._,

This murder mystery and psychological novel tells of the tangled lives and loves of powerful figures in 1970s post-Watergate Washington. Catherine Lafitte has made peace with her past and with her husband, Hamilton Hap Lafitte, the philandering, hard-drinking US Senator from Lake City, Florida. She has a big house in the country and a lover in town, and has pushed herself to the top level of Washington society. Arthur Bernardi, Catherines lover and famous sculptor, lives in an old house that overlooks Rock Creek Park with his alcoholic musician friend Cal Canoun. At a raucous party featuring the music of 91-year-old jazz musician Benny King, we meet Harold Smith-Green, Catherines former lover, known in the media as The Shadow Tycoon, Niki, the beautiful spoiled brat from horse country, Chloe the scheming left-wing columnist, Abilene Dooley, Washingtons favorite courtesan, and Buck Reston, psychiatrist to the rich and famous. Two days later their world is blown apart by the by the early morning discovery of two dead men in Rock Creek Park. Agents Richard Kuprovic and Joe Geraghty, the Mutt & Jeff of the FBI, conduct a frustrating murder investigation lightened by Kuprovics bantering relationship with girlfriend Cass Alexander, society girl turned fashion photographer. Two mysterious poisoning deaths occur, a delightful May afternoon drive to Marylands Eastern Shore ends tragically and streetwalker Willa Hodges tells a frightening story. The solution of the mystery, inadvertently given away but unnoticed in the middle of the book, is bizarre and completely unexpected._,

Here are twelve stories from thriller writer Howard Losness, beginning with the tale of a man who refuses to act his age. Youll read about the deal he makes with a Mr. Sattan in return for his youth and the consequences thereof. Then there is Harm, who is living the good life with his wife and family, until the arrival of a letter announcing an additional member that he hadnt counted on, or even knew about. Charlie finds his dream girl and marries her, only to give everyone at the wedding reception the surprise of their lives. And then there is Paddy OToole, a gangster wannabe. Wait until you read what fate has in store for this fool. No collection of short stories would be complete without a Who done it. In The Butler Did It, youll discover Howard Losness version of not one butler, but a plane full of them. In each of Howard Losness short stories you will find yourself drawn into the lives and dilemmas that his characters create for themselves._,

A novel about the disappearance of an enigmatic poet/prodigy, Roland Paradise, as told through the words of Paradise and the testimony of those who knew him and those he knew. In a nonlinear structure, it unravels the story of Paradise from boy genius to watchmaker, to wartime codebreaker, to writer, to teacher, to hermetic genius. Roland Paradise the father, the son, the prodigy, the epicist, the enigmatist. The rumors, the stories, the accusations. Where is he? Is he? Was he ever.? His mind was a cryptish place, an enigma, a harmless cipher machine knocked senseless by the insane attempts of others to decode it as though it held an inherent truth while driving him to another time, to anytime. Roland Paradise was ultimately a sad and lonely figure, a possibly delusional reclusive intellectual for whom life held little joy. For all his brilliance, he never learned lifes simplest lessons. A compulsive fabulist whose life and disappearance was more fantastic than any of the stories he invented or the lies he couldnt help telling._,

When newly married millionaire heiress Arleen Parker discovers a letter in her husbands coat, she doesnt know her world is about to collapse. She is soon confronted to distressing questions

In an age of technology, of reason and certainly intelligence, one would not expect someones life to follow the path that it does, in which unexpectedly horrific acts are perpetrated by family and ot

After an intense winter storm, Homicide Detective Martin Kellermen is wakened suddenly by a phone call from his partner, Detective Jack Gibson. A murder has been reported in a penthouse suite at a hotel. The two detectives are dispatched to the crime scene, where they discover the slain body of a wealthy teen celebrity. A note left behind by the killer is found, in which he vows to murder four other individuals. Many questions are asked, but the answers are few. And the killers true face remains in the dark. As the killer, simply known as Matthew, moves from individual to individual, the detectives discover that his motives are buried within the notes he leaves behind and in the past that he has not forgotten. Winter of Red Demise is the fifth in a seven-book series involving the detectives of the 26th Precinct._,