The Whammer Jammers: chicks on wheels, dirty deals, and everything you never dared ask about roller derby. Suspended after a "questionable" shooting, Hartford cop Tracy "Trash" Hendrix hires on to protect the local skaters from vandals while they prepare for a match to fund a women's shelter. He suspects a skater's ex-boyfriend, but the guy has an alibi when that shelter gets torched-and an even better one when he turns up dead. Then a skater is killed in a drive-by, and Hendrix knows someone plays rougher than the roller girls. Unless he can figure out who it is before the match begins, the...

On Monday, Principal Peter Galvin welcomes the committee that will evaluate Ribicoff High School for accreditation-just as someone guns down a student outside the main entrance. On Tuesday, homicide cop Abigail Teague tells him she fears that the shooting will incite a gang war. On Wednesday, student teacher Kim Dombrowik finds drugs in a student's locker, and there's a riot in the school cafeteria. Thursday really sucks. And the evaluation committee won't leave until Friday... The novel follows a principal, a student teacher and a female homicide detective on their journeys through the...

Diane Ramsey has a wealthy husband, a beautiful home, two lovely children - and a blackmailer. She turns to Hartford PI Zach Barnes for help, but the damning photographs keep showing up in her mail. All she can tell Barnes is, "That isn't me." Barnes follows a 25-year-old trail of abuse and deceit to the secrets Diane doesn't even know she keeps, and the monster who still pulls her strings...and will kill to keep it that way.

Anywhere else, fifteen will get you twenty. Along the turnpike, fifteen will get you dead. When beautiful fifteen-year-old Stacy Kendall disappears, her wealthy parents hire Hartford PI Zach Barnes to find her. Barnes fears that the girl is dead...until a brunette who looks like her shows up in a security video outside a sleazy motel room. Inside that room, a man lies dead. Overnight, Stacy turns from a kidnap victim to a murder suspect-and her parents' worst nightmare. To save the girl, Barnes invades a thriving trade in teen sex-trafficking, blackmail, and murder. Getting in is easy. Now he...

In 1991, Jeremy Garth and Thunder Lizzard were poised to become Detroit's Next Big Thing. They went into the studio to cut the album that would make it all happen. Then Garth turned up dead in his car and took the unfinished album and the band with him. Now Re-Run Records hires Chris "Woody" Guthrie to find those lost session tapes for a memorial CD, and Guthrie finds that all is not peace and harmony in the Motor City. Three other people from that ill-fated session are also dead. Another is missing. All the cases are still open. Talk about Number One with a bullet...

GROWING UP IS HARD TO DO It's 1965 and the Beatles have turned pop music upside down. In the South, the Civil Rights movement is gathering momentum behind Martin Luther King. In Vietnam, the war is heating up. And in Ojibway, Michigan, cheerleader Susie Porter accuses her algebra teacher of rape. Attorney Joseph Daniels, unaware that his son Robbie has loved Susie since grade school, agrees to defend the teacher. His decision thrusts Robbie into a world he never dreamed existed. Part To Kill a Mockingbird, part American Graffiti, Postcards of the Hanging is the story of a young man...

FINALIST FOR THE SHAMUS AWARD FOR BEST INDIE PI NOVEL 2015 Lying, cheating, stealing, dealing...dying. When guidance counselor Terry Wright dies in a freak accident, he leaves a flash drive for PI Zach Barnes. Barnes finds files showing that someone at Wright's posh private school is lying, some students are cheating, someone may be stealing, and someone else is definitely dealing. Before he can figure out who's doing what, Wright's fiancee dies, too. Coincidence? Yeah, right. Teachers, staff, and students all know Barnes has those files-and one of them has already killed twice. Barnes...

A widow, a car thief, a nanny, a mob boss and a pregnant stripper walk into a bar... The car thief stole a car with the widow's dead husband in the trunk, and the cops found his fingerprints on the rearview mirror. A female homicide cop (whose husband has left her) and a lifeguard join the crew at the bar. The private eye hired to clear the car thief of murder learns that the dead man was embezzling-but where's the money? And why did he buy an expensive electric guitar he never played? The widow was cheating on her husband before he died, so now it looks like she had a motive for wanting him...

Darkness creeps into the motor city... Detroit homicide detective Eleanor "Shoobie" Dube pursues a killer who leaves his victims in abandoned buildings throughout the city. When builders uncover a skeleton, Shoobie tentatively identifies the remains as Megan Traine's long vanished aunt. Meg turns to her long-time companion, Detroit PI Chris "Woody" Guthrie, for help. To help Meg, Guthrie puts the ugly divorce he's investigating on hold. Then the couple's daughter Shannon flees from her parent's warfare and meets a disturbed young man who knows every hiding place in the area. Now, Guthrie,...