Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled

Tough, smart, and struggling to stay alive, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African-American father and a Mexican-American mother, August grew up in the city's Mexicantown and joined the police force only to be drummed out by a conspiracy of corrupt cops and politicians. But August fought back; he took on the city and got himself a $12 million wrongful dismissal...

At a Luxury Resort, Dead Customers are Bad for Business...

Valerie Inglewood just landed her dream job. She's the second woman ever selected to the elite Strikeforce Investigation Team out of Denver, Colorado. Can Val crack her first case before she becomes the next victim? Is her new love interest a calculating killer after all?

She's partnered with the legendary Charlene Brockworth, the first woman ever selected to the team. Can Val live up to Charlene's exacting standards and reputation, or will she fall flat on her face and wind up scrubbing...

Murder and peaceful spirituality don't mix.... or at least, they shouldn't.

Valerie Inglewood and her partner Charlene Brockworth travel deep into the Northern New Mexico mountains to investigate a mysterious murder at the EdenCloud spiritual retreat center.

But all is not as it appears in this idyllic place, and the free souls dwelling in the heavenly bliss of the spirit world aren't as holy as they'd like the investigators to think they are.

From the moment they walk in the front door, the center's leaders thwart their...

When a struggling author with a secret government past is hired by a wealthy philanthropist to investigate a cold murder case, he has no choice but to expose the dark and buried secrets of a powerful political family in Chicago.

Sebastian Drake is a novelist working out of a dilapidated apartment in the city who's trying to come up with his next story idea. But he's stuck.

Drake receives an unexpected visit from a man interested in hiring him for a project and who thinks he has just the solution to Drake's writing challenges. He also thinks that...

To be dead, or not to be dead...

In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancers sell black-market trinkets to tourists, and the dead rise up--to work the night shift. But zombie detective Dan Shamble is no ordinary working stiff. When a local senator and his goons picket a ghostly production of Shakespeare in the Dark--condemning the troupe's "unnatural" lifestyles--Dan smells something rotten. And if something smells rotten to a zombie, you're in serious trouble....

Before his way of life, er, death is destroyed, Dan wants answers....

In this timely novel, Clark McKay, a retired Army Special Forces Colonel, has developed a drinking problem after losing his wife and son in a car accident, as well as from the nightmares of his Vietnam days. And he's not getting any younger. In spite of his problems, he is determined to find out who murdered his best friend and his friend's wife.

McKay meets a multitude of characters who come to life in Slow Bullet. From his kind-hearted godson and his friend's spitfire daughter, to the beautiful Brazilian prostitute he befriends - both good and bad are...

Eddie falls...

Elaine was a star of sorts, though her pictures were B-movies and never up for major awards. Encroaching middle age meant her leading-lady days were numbered, and she worked with a lot of jealous wannabes. Did one of...

"Burnsworth nails the voice of new Southern noir. This talented author will win you over with his engaging and multi-faceted hero, then keep you turning pages with his suspense." - Hank Phillippi Ryan, Mary Higgins Clark Award-Winning Author of The Other Woman

Lowcountry Private Investigator Blu Carraway needs a new client. He's broke and the tax man is coming for his little slice of paradise. But not everyone appreciates his skills. Some call him a loose cannon. Others say he's a liability. All the ex-Desert Storm Ranger knows is his phone hasn't rung in quite a while. Of course,...

"Burnsworth nails the voice of new Southern noir. This talented author will win you over with his engaging and multi-faceted hero, then keep you turning pages with his suspense." - Hank Phillippi Ryan, Mary Higgins Clark Award-Winning Author of The Other Woman

Lowcountry Private Investigator Blu Carraway needs a new client. He's broke and the tax man is coming for his little slice of paradise. But not everyone appreciates his skills. Some call him a loose cannon. Others say he's a liability. All the ex-Desert Storm Ranger knows is his phone hasn't rung in quite a while. Of course,...