Old Crime

Jamaica Biltmore: Old Masters After his last action-packed case tracking down missing money from his son Joe’s college, private investigator Jamaica Biltmore is looking forward to some much-needed time off in Florida with family and friends close by. But house-hunting with Julie and leisurely days on the boat will have to wait. Jamaica’s friend Gino, a Mafia don, has died, leaving Jamaica a mysterious notebook in a safety deposit box. As rumors of Gino’s connection to certain Russians swirl, someone is determined to get their hands on the notebook, and they’ll stop at nothing to get...

When Donavan Partekin moves into a Victorian house, he is drawn to Jake Talamantes, a street-smart neighbor who knows too much. Cultural and class differences divide the two men, who struggle to understand each other. Donavan works as a research clerk for the court, while Jake is caught-up in a group which believes in a strange mixture of spirituality and Aztec rituals. As Donovan searches for his identity, he must decide where his loyalties lie.

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Peter Montrose, a 73 year old retired attorney, wakes up on August 27, 2020 in the body of a much younger married man in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, Paul Skelding wakes up that same morning in a dumpy Syracuse hotel sporting the body of an old man. The two thoroughly confused men have limited time in order to figure out why their bodies were switched. Their strange dilemma makes for a fascinating adventure for both of them. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lance Majestik is a pen name of retired Canadian lawyer Donald W. Desaulniers who has written more than 100 novels. That author has published some of ...

’Tis normally the season to be jolly. But with someone trying to wreck the winter wonderland, can she dig up a suspect in a mistletoe mystery? Carter Cash can’t wait to experience her first small-town Christmas. And with the local billionaire suddenly announcing his engagement to a Hollywood celeb, there’ll be glitter aplenty atop the tree. But when the parade float warehouse is vandalized and the A-lister is blamed for a shocking theft, the eagle-eyed amateur sleuth fears the community is hiding a vengeful Grinch. As the attacks expand to include Claire's intimate wedding, she and ...

Nolbeloir House...the home that Jeremy Delahass built for his family in the heart of America...now 200 years later his family still calls it home...the Delahass Legacy lives on...and the search for justice continues...Barb Delahass has always admired the life Jeremy Delahass chose to live. In many ways her ancestor had shaped the course of her own life long before she was born. But lately she’s come to realize it was her turn to make some of the big decisions. With the help of Grayson Radcliffe, a long time family friend, she begins her research into questions she’s always had and ...

DCI Michael Yorke and Emma Gardner are still plagued by guilt over their failure to catch the murderous psychiatrist known as the Conduit, and the loss of their former colleague to insanity. On Christmas Day, following a brutal massacre in Leeds, Yorke and Gardner find themselves once again chasing the ruthless puppeteer, believing that they have the initiative.

Lady Jacqueline invades the Old West. In 1870, the world’s largest diamond field is discovered in American Indian country. London financier Nathan Rothschild joins forces with San Francisco entrepreneur Asbury Harpending to control the new wealth. To protect his investment, Rothschild dispatches consulting detective, and sometime spy, Lady Jacqueline Bennett to shadow Harpending. Jacqueline’s adventures stretch from London to San Francisco. Through the desert and chased by Indians, she finally scales Diamond Mountain to find the secret of the treasure. As with many of my books, this one...

Jerry Smith, an 81 year old retired lawyer, foolishly believes that his only problem is the competency hearing coming up tomorrow in which his spendthrift step-daughter, Diane is seeking to gain control of Jerry's finances. Jerry realizes that Diane will squander his savings in short order if the court approves her application, but Jerry is blissfully unaware that if the judge denies the motion, then Jerry's life will quickly be immersed in mortal danger. Some old men just refuse to die soon enough to satisfy their relatives. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian ...

In his decades as an insurance investigator, Dave Brandstetter has never shied away from violence, and he’s had more than his share of close calls. Time's catching up with him, his body's slowing down, and his wit isn't as sharp as it used to be. But he will forgo retirement once more for the sake of a puzzle no detective could resist. Walking on the beach, a friend finds a bedraggled child who claims he's witnessed a murder. The victim is a drug-addicted pop star, and the obvious suspect is the dead man’s ex-girlfriend - a junkie whom the child saw standing over the body.

“Everyone, at some point, wants a second chance…” Everyone except Edie Black, Edie wanted nothing more than to check herself into hospice care, and check out of her life. It was all going according to plan, but then she woke up in 1986. She was young and healthy, and her young daughter was alive and well. Was it a dying dream? Or had she been given a second chance at life? Could she change the future and keep her daughter alive? Or was she destined to repeat the mistakes of her past?

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Humphrey Bogart, Shirley Temple, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, and many more.

Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks’ greatest nightmare just also happened to be his grandfather’s newest business venture. Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees. But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother. How dangerous could it be? Ethan Hendricks wasn’t quite as confident about his grandfather’s new hobby, or that the supposedly straight-forward case of a missing ...

She is my sworn enemy. She is the love of my life. I run the Margarelli crime family with an iron fist. But when the girl I used to love starts a bloody mob war, I can't stand the thought of fighting back. So I do the only thing I can do. I seduce her. I protect her. I fight for her. I want her and I want to save her. But having her in my bed is dangerous for both of us. I can handle that. The real danger is letting her into my heart. Black Hearted is a stand alone novel with no cheating and a guaranteed HEA! It exists in the same world as the Untouchables MC and the Devil's Riders series.

While tracking down his tormentor, the author encounters an improbable cast of characters that includes an elocution teacher with ill-fitting dentures, a gang of faux-royal swindlers, a crime investigator with "paper in his blood", and a monocled grand master of the Knights of Malta. Yet for all its global exoticism and comic exuberance, Kurzweil's riveting account is, at its core, a heartfelt and suspenseful narrative about the "parallel lives" of a victim and his abuser.

Life after the State Department was supposed to be a peaceful respite for Mike Lacondeguy, but an unlikely friend and the Russian mob surfaced with other plans. In FISHING WITH TOLSTOY, the exhilarating introduction to The New Americans trilogy, ex-diplomat Mike Lacondeguy snaps out of his retirement blues and into a world of deception and betrayal. This time, the fight is on his turf. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine draws two Cold War adversaries back into the game to stop the hostilities from escalating. Mike worked with the State Department for three decades in and around Russia, while ...

Tales of the West: A Western Anthology is a collection of six western short storied filled with action and adventure, including Little Dodge, The Bounty Hunter, The Driver, The Stable Boy, The Orphan and The Road to Laramie.

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, where he lives alongside his widowed mother—opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey—and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda. When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in the church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village.

Thrift shop til someone drops... After a family friend dies under suspicious circumstances, Jessica Braun agrees to hold the estate sale for the deceased. She’s prepared for the job and bringing some help—her neighbor, her mother, and a new pup too. All is not as it seems, however, when drama erupts around the will. Selling off priceless heirlooms places Jess right in the middle of the conflict—and in the middle of the danger. When family feuds turn deadly—and the clues are pointing to murder—where will the Secondhand Sleuth find the answers she needs to bring the killer to justice?

Thrift shop til someone drops... A mysterious mansion, an island lost in the fog… And a wedding filled with recycled decor. Jessica Braun is leaving her thrift store in her teen neighbor’s care and heading to Lake Superior for the weekend. Even a trip down memory lane with her ex-husband can’t ruin this Fourth of July. Until tragedy strikes the happy couple, and the bridge is closed—trapping Jess and the other guests on the island with a murderer. How will Jess work through the clues, and her past, before the coming storm?