This small town novel begins in Manhattan. Tony Rice is a handsome liar. Actually, as he sees it, working on Madison Avenue he lies for a living. And when his high-powered ad agency decides that Americans are yearning for the simple life and an exit from the rat race, hot-shot Tony and his research team are forced into a secret mission: six weeks of undercover work in sleepy little Maddox, Iowa. Not exactly his dream assignment, but when not one but two pretty women smile at him, Tony soon finds himself romancing both sexy Martina and lovely Laurel, with, of course, a mounting series of wild...

..".both The Obsession and Gone Girl] are pacy, gripping narratives about love grown monstrous and out of control."--Victoria Best, Tales from the Reading Room The Obsession is a dark and edgy stalker romance filled with desire and deception and sparked by an erotic love triangle that shifts between the American Midwest and several legendary Italian locales. When Stan, an American grad student, falls for Lina, a lovely Italian scholar, his unrequited feelings become a perverse passion. When he stalks her from a mid-Michigan college town to Bologna's ancient streets, they are joined by Lina's...

..".an intriguing and cleverly plotted thriller... a complex net of lies, cover-ups and diversions... far from obvious or predictable."-Christoph Fischer, author of The Luck of the Weissensteiners In Book 2 of The Truth Beauty Trilogy, the dark, edgy saga continues. The Disappearance is a transatlantic romance riddled with secrets and deception, a tale that travels from Switzerland to Italy, from Holland to the Bahamas. In Geneva, lovely Italian scholar Lina Lentini is caught up in the shadow world of Swiss banking. Schemes of fraud and murder in cold blood begin to surface when her friend...

In May, 1972, T.V. LoCicero finished a book-length, non-fiction tale of deceit and criminality involving a major American publisher. It was also a memoir that covered the most intense and frustrating period in LoCicero's life. Soon thereafter, he gave his only copy of the manuscript to a University of Michigan professor who had encouraged him to write it. And when LoCicero eventually lost touch with his friend the professor, the manuscript was lost for more than 30 years. Why give away his last copy of a story so important to him, and why make no concerted effort to recover it for such a long...

Detroit's top TV newsman Frank DeFauw hunts down the story of a judge who may be corrupt-and is one of his best friends. Booze, drugs, womanizing and a passion for the news are all part of what makes brilliant, erratic Frank a major player in this deeply troubled city. Plagued by his own dark pleasures and followed by a deadly assassin, Frank is finally forced to decide if digging out the truth about a bribe to his pal the judge is worth risking his career, his family and his life. With supple prose, brilliant dialogue, complex characters and a twisting plot, this opening salvo of The...

A 12-year-old girl is the desperate focus of three men-John, a dedicated young teacher searching for vigilante justice, Charlie, a small-time private detective with a checkered past, and Steven, a top mafia narcotics importer.

Their paths cross when John makes a shocking, vengeful move to save his eighth-grade students from the Detroit's vicious drug wars, Steven's young daughter goes missing, and Charlie, hired to find her, confronts a moral dilemma that will change all their lives.

Tightly plotted and action packed, this second book of The detroit im dyin Trilogy can be...

This is a multifaceted treat: a sparkling collection of T.V. LoCicero's best short fiction and non-fiction penned over the past five decades-14 stories, memoirs, essays and occasional pieces that are by turns brilliant, hilarious, moving and insightful. Together they offer a wonderful array of unlikely but vividly realized characters: --A colorful black caddie who plays one of the strangest rounds in the history of golf. --The mild, unassuming fellow often dubbed the greatest crime writer of our time. --A Hall of Fame athlete whose decades of triumph ended in sudden death on a Manhattan...