Entertainment critic and film noir author Carroll Quint gets a panicky call from his mother, former movie starlet Karen Kaas. Vicky Vandamn, a roommate of Karen's some thirty years ago when they worked at Talbot Studios, disappeared from Hollywood under mysterious circumstances. Now she's been found dead on her houseboat in nearby Sausalito, a reported suicide victim. Quint's mother is certain that Vicky, who was involved with a rough Hollywood crowd, was murdered. "Act like one of those private eyes in your book, dear, and find out who killed her." Quint tries to do just that, and soon finds...

THE UNSTOPPABLE ASSASSIN Mary Ariza, a beautiful, savvy lawyer, knows all the ins and outs of the law and the lawless. Nothing that anyone can do and try to get away with can make her blink. But now, as she stops to help a man having a heart attack on the street, she unknowingly marks herself for death. Police Inspector Jack Kordic, a cops cop, has handled every rough assignment from rape and murder to blazing shoot-outs. But when he discovers that the headless, handless corpse floating in the icy Pacific is somehow linked to Mary Ariza, he is thrust into the same nightmare. What neither...

REVENGE WILL BE HIS MASTERPIECE When insurance investigator Robert Duran's wife, world-famous artist Anona Stack, succumbs to a terminal disease, his world is shattered. But when her body is stolen from the family crypt and the rosary beads she was buried with turn up in Duran's car, the nightmare really begins. Now suspected of murdering her, Duran is hounded by the police, rejected by Anona's family, and even subjected to violent attacks. If he doesn't find out who is behind these bizarre events he knows he will be destroyed. The secret must lie somewhere in his own work as a specialist in...

EVERYONE KNOWS YOU KILLED YOUR WIFE... DIDN'T YOU? Your name is Robert Duran. You are an insurance investigator specializing in art fraud. You live with your beautiful, fabulously-wealthy wife in a magnificent house in San Francisco. Now your wife has vanished, believed to be dead. The police suspect you're involved. Your wife's family hopes you'll be arrested and found guilty. And the madman who has begun terrorizing you with threats and bizarre messages won't rest until he has executed his final, perfect moment of revenge... Filled with authentic detail and gritty, non-stop action, The...

A master of suspense, Jerry Kennealy delivers a riveting thriller set on the dark side of the San Francisco streets, where innocence is bought and sold-and a young girl's life can slip through the cracks... Wanted by both sides of the law-and nowhere to run. THE HUNTED A bloody triple murder gives Maureen Connah her first taste of being a homicide inspector. It's up to her to track down a witness to the crime: a thirteen-year-old illegal Russian immigrant named Janna. But Janna is on the run-from powerful men who want what she unknowingly possesses: the secrets of an illicit international...

From the author of The Hunted and The Suspect comes a thrilling new novel set in the high-stakes world of art smuggling-where one man's past comes back to haunt him... THE OTHER EYE Ex-art thief Mark Martel is a new man. He has a great girlfriend, a new name, and a new life among the upper crust of San Francisco-thanks to the Witness Protection Program. But things are far from comfortable... Because Mark Martel is about to rediscover his roots. The New York mobster he testified against wants him to pay for his performance on the witness stand. He's offering half a million to whoever finds...

Nick Polo-San Francisco-based, smart and slick private eye-sometimes bends the rules to get what he wants. But now he's in prison for bending the rules a bit too far, and he is given an ultimatum: The mayor of San Francisco is being blackmailed and no one can help her because even the cops may be involved. If Polo wants to get out of jail-and get his P.I. license back-he's got to find out who's behind the scam, stop it, and tell no one. His investigation takes him from the luxurious resort areas of Sonoma County to the dangerous drug-and-pornography underworld of San Francisco's inner city....

Nick Polo-San Francisco-based, smart and slick private eye-has never been known to work strictly within the bounds of the law. So when Ron Dettman-president and owner of a powerful Silicon Valley corporation-is suspected of cheating his friends in a high-stakes poker game, Polo, who has had a few aces up his own sleeve at times, is called in to set up a sting operation. But Dettman's game is much larger than simple embezzlement, and the stakes much higher than those on any poker table. And by the time Polo figures that out, and realizes that he's in way over his head-it's too late to turn...