Southern Crime

Chaos reigns in the streets of Tallahassee, and the community doesn’t trust the police. The reason: police officers Beau Rivers and Dylan Akers are suspected in the recent murders of two child killers although it cannot be proved. Leading the turmoil is a dangerous kingpin building a drug empire with violence and fear. The Chief of Police must act, but traditional police work isn’t getting results. Additional evidence proving Rivers and Akers committed the revenge murders is discovered, and the chief delivers a tough ultimatum. The two must wage a hidden war against the kingpin or face ...

Samson Valentine is the best private eye ever to wear a fedora - or at least he was, before he became a washed-up booze hound. There simply isn't demand for a whiskey-swilling Welsh gumshoe who insists he's living in 1940s Chicago. Everything changes when a massive diamond falls into his lap. Before he's too sure of what's going on, he's swept up in the biggest case of his life. The mob will do anything to get its gemstone back, and they prove it when Sam's friend turns up dead. Now it's personal, and Sam sets out on a one-man mission to take down the Welsh crime syndicate.

When a parish priest, is brutally murdered, Lily Martin needs to know why. Yet, questions aren't always welcome in steamy Acadia Parish--not by her ex-lover, Gitan Boudreaux, an ex-con struggling to make it on the outside, not by her bitter ex-husband Sheriff Hugh Lothiar, and not by the man who murdered Father Dugas.... In At The Kill is a former Doubleday Book Club Selection, and the second book in the Southern Sizzler Romantic Thriller Series. A former Doubleday Book Club Selection. Explicit sex, violence, and language.

Does good overcome evil . . . . . . Or not? Louisiana bayou teen Angelina Delacroix has feelings she's never had before. She yearns for what she knows is wrong. She’s envious of others and anger fuels her soul. Angelina is haunted by sexual desire while other longings frighten her. She wants for things she knows nothing about, and she knows these longings come from another world. Her family is a mess. Her mother is ill, her father unemployed, and her little brother has a deadly leg wound. Bored, depressed, and unimpressed with life in general, Angelina plays on the dark side where she ...

Times are tough as Elliott and Gloria discuss the possibility of taking in a boarder to help make ends meet. Meanwhile Elliott and matt are hot on the case of the missing brother, having been hired by his older sister to find him. Also running through the story is a side bet between Elliott and Matt as to who can drum up the first client of the day. The loser of this contest is surely going to be embarrassed.

South Africa is under attack from all sides when Elanza, a politically connected heiress blinded by disease and looking for love before it is too late, meets a naïve English boy. Ralph, 18 and innocent, has accidentally stumbled upon Elanza - and South Africa’s biggest secret. When Ralph disappears into the darkest part of the continent to walk home overland, a Swazi spy, the only black African agent working for the apartheid-era National Intelligence Service, comes into both of their lives.

Welcome to Carrington, Louisiana, and this deadly romantic comedy series! Three southern-fried comedies with a touch of romance, a side of mystery, a smattering of paranormal, and three crazy sisters…. Freshly Dead, Book 1 All Mitzi Winston wants is enough money to pay this month’s mortgage payment. That is the only reason she even considers the phone sex job. Ever since her husband’s disappearance, she has held things together nicely—until recently. And now, well, she just needs the money. Biting the bullet, she goes for the interview, only to find that the phone sex job isn’t ...

Roberta Taylor has written a bittersweet and ultimately unforgettable memoir of her early life in South London in the 50s. Too Many Mothers is a portrait of an embattled family at war with itself and the outside world. From petty crime to pet monkeys, tender romance to emotional blackmail, illegitimacy, adoption, and even murder. You won't be able to put this book down!