Southern Noir

Niall Howell's Only Pretty Damned is a taut noir that takes you behind the big top, revealing rough and tumble characters, murderous plots, and crooked schemes designed to keep Rowland’s World Class Circus afloat for another season. When Toby, former trapeze artist turned disgruntled clown, begins seeing Gloria, a young and beautiful dancer longing for a bigger role under the spotlight, his hardboiled past resurfaces.

NEVER ONE TO HOLD A GRUDGE, ALTON RHODE DECIDES TO HELP OUT A FORMER HOOKER WHO ONCE PLOTTED TO HAVE HIM KILLED. SHE WANTS HIM TO FIND OUT WHO MURDERED HER GRANDFATHER WITH AN ICE PICK! LORENE ROBILLARD BETRAYED ALTON RHODE AND ALMOST GOT HIM KILLED. NOW, SHE WANTS HIS HELP! ***The private investigator soon finds himself in a Southern town that has more secrets than pigeons on Confederate statues. But with two brutish killers straight out of “Deliverance” on his tail, Rhode is forced to call for backup. The new ally, making his own contributions to a rising body count, helps uncover a ...

In this first installment of the Miami Crime Trilogy, Don Donovan spins a sprawling noir tale of three hardened individuals whose lives are woven together in a web of money, betrayal, and murder.

Private Investigator James Benoit Heatley, "Heat" to those few he calls friends, has a reputation for being a bit rough around the edges. Heat's reputation for doing what he believes is just is well deserved, even if his brand of justice happens to be illegal. His reputation for not taking women as clients is equally well deserved. Some say there is a woman to blame and they would be right to do so. It is with great reluctance that Heat takes the case of a wife desperate to find her kidnapped husband, a case that forces Heat to confront his bitter past. Murder, kidnapping, and broken hearts...

A team of con artists travel the country, marrying rich, unsought women, only to clean them out on their wedding night. The only problem is their last mark's father happens to be a secret underworld kingpin now bent on avenging his homely daughter's broken heart. After Angie Robertson’s new husband disappears with over $200,000 in wedding gifts and a brand new 911 Porsche convertible, her gangster father makes it his mission to seek retribution. Alongside him is Angie’s brother and heir to the Robertson empire, Sebastian, who, like his father, is eager to enact a swift revenge. ...

Someone is about to make a killing in the music industry. Why would songwriting legend Gideon Pike disappear just as his 30-year career turns a multimillion-dollar profit Music columnist Mick Sever goes looking for his missing friend Gideon in the gritty backrooms of Miami's nightclubs, dodging suicide speedboats and running from sniper fire. What surfaces is how the major players in the music industry are not making the headlines, but just pulling the strings that create them.

In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running back. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Then Billy's abuser is found murdered in the Lowe family trailer, and all evidence points toward Billy. Now nothing can stop an explosive chain of violence that could tear the whole town apart on the eve of the playoffs.

“I didn't want to put it down after I got into the thick of the action!” - 5-star review A faraway land. A famous soccer player. And a missing necklace. No ordinary piece of jewelry, this rhodochrosite had belonged to his birth mother, a woman he has never met. She had disappeared during the Argentine dirty war of the nineteen-seventies. This superstar really wants it back, and he refuses to play soccer again until someone finds it. It’s shaping up to be a national tragedy. Until the arrival of... AINSLEY WALKER Fresh off her amethyst adventure, she plunges into the brash heart of ...

For fans of Stephen King, Nick Cutter, and Thomas Heuvelt, this breathtaking supernatural ghost thriller is a masterfully crafted novel about what horrors might exist on the other side—whether we believe they are there or not. "An expertly layered work of impressive scope, The Jilted will leave you pondering the real-life differences between good and evil.” ~Bestselling Author Kristen Mae A vanished loved one. An ancient evil. And only one woman knows the two are connected. It’s been two weeks since Chloe Anderson’s fiancé, Victor, disappeared with his daughter, and each night ...

Life had taught Heat many valuable lessons. Things like have a code to live by, the simpler the better. Simple rules a man could live by. Rules like whoever killed a man’s partner had to pay for that sin. Rules like never take the rap for something you didn’t do. And most important of all, never let somebody else do your dirty work for you. Introducing P.I. James Benoit “Heat” Heatley in A Matter of Vengeance, a tale of Southern Noir. What readers have to say about A Matter of Vengeance: “All I can say is WOW! A Matter on Vengeance: Introducing P.I. James Benoit Heatley, my second...

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.

Fegan Broussard’s world is filled with daily reminders of his sister’s murder, something he’d rather forget. So, when another young girl is killed and dumped in the swamp, Fegan doesn’t welcome the attention it brings to his doorstep… especially when it’s Clairee’ Sumner, a long-legged beauty and the daughter of his sister’s killer, asking the questions. Don’t Tell A Soul is the first book in the Southern Sizzlers Romantic Thriller Series.

Having left Texarkana for the safety of the West Coast, reporter Charlie Yates finds himself drawn back to the South, to Hot Springs, Arkansas, as an old acquaintance asks for his help investigating the mysterious deaths of three women. On arrival, he discovers that his contact has perished in a hotel fire and that nobody in the place seems to know anything about the murders. Can Charlie to do the right thing before it's too late?