Western Crime Thrillers

Sons of Jupiter is book three in the Luther LaMotta Series and follows Out of the Frying Pan. Luther and Frankie have settled in Oklahoma City, but trouble follows them where ever they go. Luther starts a Good Samaritan group based on the New York Guardian Angels, however, some of the people he has recruited as his fellow organizers have other, less than legal plans for the SoJ. Luther Unwittingly finds himself locked in a bloody turf war with the biggest crime element in OKC. Someone is going to die a horrible death and lives will be changed forever.

Luther is a darkly humorous mafia book that tells the story of Luther LaMotta, an accidental low-level hitman in the Manchini family mob. Luther wants nothing more from life than to savor music in the solitude of his plant-filled apartment, or to romp in borrowed luxury cars with his girlfriend/stripper Candy Barr, an Amish runaway. Instead, he is forced to clean up after mob hits, feeding victims’ body parts to a crocodile named Bianca who is kept in a pit in a New York City basement.

Tex Waco is the Texas oil billionaire that heads up a group of rich Texas vigilantes known as the Texas 12. A former business partner of Tex is kidnapped and held for ransom by a Mexican drug cartel in Oil Field, Texas. Tex; his two adopted sons, Kale and Ellis Baylock; and The General fly to Oil Field and begin to make their plans to bring the drug cartel to justice and take the cartel's money.

The once star profiler for the FBI, Doug ONeal, who has been able to capture the greatest of serial killers, rapists, and criminals, comes back to San Francisco to find the worst of them. Because of this killer's background, the FBI has never even known he existed. Doug has only suspected that he exists. The FBI puts together a task force with the San Francisco police, Anne Borges, and Jeff Shinn to hunt down this suspect to prevent more deaths. The police are always looking for the suspect, but are they looking in the right place?

Outlaw Wes Cavanaugh knows that crime doesn't always pay - at least not much. That's why he and his partner, Mose, are willing to pay Jimmy Stock for information on a job that's guaranteed to pay off big. Jimmy's made a career of selling tips to bandits, but the job he sells Wes - a payroll train about to leave Omaha - requires more than information.

A rural noir about a woman on a pulse-pounding expedition to deliver a fugitive - and forced to confront her own past on the journey.

Captain Mendoza has a problem. In his effort to stop the Phoenix opioid epidemic he has Detective First Grade Boyce posing as a homeless bag lady, surveilling Cicero Paz and his band of drug dealing killers. But things are getting more and more dangerous and he needs someone who can infiltrate the gang, and protect his best detective. Someone who would be willing to step over any line and break any rule to do it.

Edie Kiglatuk is working as a summer school teacher in the Canadian Arctic. When one of her female students is found dead in nearby Lake Turngaluk, Edie enlists the help of Sergeant Derek Palliser to pursue the case, promising the girl's Inuit family that they will uncover the truth. Meanwhile, lawyer Sonia Gutierrez investigates the toxicity of the lake and suspects that there might be a larger conspiracy involved.

When the body of forty-four-year-old Karen Simmons is found abandoned in remote woodland, journalist Kiki Nunn is determined this will be the big break she so desperately needs. Because she has a head start on all the other reporters. Just a week before Karen was killed, Kiki interviewed her about the highs and lows of mid-life romance. Karen told her all about kissing strangers on the beach under the stars, expensive meals, roses. About the scammers, the creeps, the man who followed her home the other night...

Luis Machi has had enemies for a long time: after all, he's built his success on dirty deals - not to mention his cooperation with the military junta's coup years ago, or his love life, a web of infidelities. What's new is the corpse in the boot of his car. A body with its face blown off, detained by a pair of furry pink handcuffs that Machi knows well. Someone is trying to set him up, but the number of suspects is incalculable. Machi is stuck dredging his guilty past for clues and trying to dispose of the mystery corpse. But time is just another enemy, and it's running out fast.

A late-night attack at her home convinces Cora Walsh that starting over in witness protection is her only choice. What Cora doesn’t know is that the tough, no-nonsense FBI agent who swoops in to protect her is not who he says he is. In fact, he’s the last man she should trust.

Adapted from the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.... Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening – and he knows what question the stranger will ask.

In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street – visitors who bring their troubles to the only man in the world who can help them.

Nolan Bishop has felt like an outsider in the Savage Kings MC, ever since he gave up the nomad lifestyle to try and put down some roots. He’s a convicted felon, searching for his place in the world without screwing up his probation. The last thing Nolan needs is a giant oaf from a rival biker gang showing up at the MC’s clubhouse, threatening to kill Nolan if he doesn’t give his estranged wife, Rita, a divorce.

Rookie FBI Special Agent Elias Tucker is the son of Liberian immigrants and he's living his American Dream. He graduated from Brown and turned his attention to the law. His first assignment with the Bureau is the Phoenix satellite office in Cochise County, Arizona, just a short drive from the Mexican border. His work involves the cross-border drug trade, missing persons, and tracking foreign nationals who have entered the country illegally. He's a cultural fish out of water. Adjusting to his new life will take time, but time isn't something he has. A string of mysterious disappearances ...

Maverick lawyer, Nick Sanchez would rather be sailing than lawyering. He has a cushy job in a big downtown law firm. His boss gives him free rein because Nick seldom loses a case. But the boss has a sinister secret. He’s in cahoots with the top guy at a big insurance company to create phony cases and skim millions of dollars. In the past few months, a couple of sleazy Tampa ambulance chasers have disappeared. Everyone figures they must have just absconded with the funds from recent case settlements. Nick and his girlfriend, Joulie Crane have been nosing around. They are getting much too ...

A missing father. A desperate daughter. A terrible discovery. A new case is the last thing DS Pete Gayle needs right now, but when it falls right into his lap, he has no choice. Justice is crying out to be served. With a career-making trial about to begin and his son in imminent danger from a pair of psychopathic brothers, Pete goes on the hunt in what could turn out to be the biggest case of his life.

Im kalt-stürmischen Februar 1990 wird in Dresden ein junger Mann, ein ehemaliger Grenzsoldat, vermisst gemeldet. Zeitgleich ermittelt das KDD-Team um Tobias Falck, Edgar Schmidt und Stefanie Bach in einem Fall von Kunstraub. In der Dresdner Galerie der Alten Meister ist ein wertvolles Gemälde durch eine Fälschung ersetzt worden. Kurz darauf wird der Fälscher ermordet. Handelt es sich womöglich um alte Stasi-Machenschaften? Die westdeutsche Ex-Kommissarin Sybille Suderberg, die mittlerweile Privatdetektivin im Osten ist, spielt dabei eine undurchsichtige Rolle.

Life got you down? Like literally on the ground and kicking you? Welcome to the club, my club that is. Savanna Everyone wanted something from me, and he was no different, but he wanted to make my nightmares and his fantasies my new reality. It didn’t matter if I was bought, sold, or given as a gift. I had no say in my future, or so they thought. I did the unthinkable, I killed my guard and disappeared into the night. I knew one person who could help me, save me, and keep me from the hell that awaited me. Ronnie, as she likes to be called now. My first act of rebellion, as I hit the road, ...

Nach dem Fall der Mauer im November 1989 wechselt der junge Polizeiwachtmeister Tobias Falck zum Kriminaldauerdienst nach Dresden. Dort bildet er zusammen mit Stefanie Bach, einer der wenigen Polizistinnen in Ostdeutschland, und dem erfahrenen Eddi Schmidt, Hauptmann der Volkspolizei, das frisch gegründete KDD-Ermittler-Team. Doch das neue Leben birgt ungeahnte zwischenmenschliche und kriminalistische Herausforderungen. Und dann ist da noch die Kollegin aus Frankfurt am Main, die nicht nur Westwind in das Dresdner Team, sondern auch ein gefährliches Geheimnis mit sich bringt.

Nothing much happens in Peaceful Valley, Montana. And that's just how Sheriff Lucas Monk likes it. Aside from the occasional drunken brawl or minor disturbance out on the reservation, he hasn't had to resort to his fists or sidearm in years. That is, until mid-October, 1914, when the theft of a wooden cigar store Indian sets off a crime wave like nothing Lucas has ever seen. Teenager Charity Axthelm goes missing, Reba Purvis' housekeeper is poisoned with cyanide Reba is sure was meant for her, and Lucas' gut tells him that this is only the beginning.