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"A love for sex and poetry were the only things my daughter got out of college," an elderly lady says. Now, she runs an escort service. One of her girls was murdered last year. Did my daughter have anything to do with it? Scott Kaven, a former Houston homicide detective turned private eye, takes on the case involving a Green Bay, Wisconsin, escort service and its striking owner. With the confidence and experience of a successful cop, a smart ass attitude, and a sharp sense of humor of his own, Kaven gets things done.

Karl LaRosa is living the good life as a Hollywood agent. He's got the best clients, the finest car and home, plenty of lovers, and the world by the tail. Then someone starts stalking him, running him off the road, vandalizing his house, and so much more. Why was his life crumbling right before his eyes? What had he done to deserve such an enemy? What he doesn't know is that the events in his life follow the script of a murder movie being filmed, a film he's involved in. Can Karl solve the mystery?

When 12-year-old Freeman Mills arrives at Wendover, a group home for troubled children, it's a chance for a fresh start. But second chances aren't easy for Freeman, the victim of painful childhood experiments that gave him the ability to read other people's minds. Little does Freeman know that his transfer was made at the request of Dr. Richard Kracowski, whose research into the brain's electrical properties is revealing new powers of the human mind.

War is hell, but coming home is worse. Jason Smiley, a cop in Chicago before he joined the Army after 9/11 came back from the wars knowing all the real heroes were dead. Now he's a private detective following trophy wives around LA. A call from his Iraq battle buddy, an undercover FBI agent is the first thing he remembers when he wakes up next to a dead man.

Tanner and Sammy go on a quest for revenge. "Tanner fired three silenced shots at the punk playing video games and watched him tumble off the side of the bed and onto the floor. The man's two companions were in the living room at the end of the hall. They were oblivious to their friend's death, because one of them was asleep with the aid of whiskey, and the other had his eyes closed while wearing headphones. The man who was asleep died without ever waking...."

Tanner's war with The Conglomerate heats up but also grows more complicated as he becomes embroiled in a power struggle within the Calvino crime family. Sophia Verona, daughter of slain mobster Jackie Verona, is in the middle of the conflict; only Tanner can save her but, first, he has to keep himself alive.

Left to rot in the king's jail, and nearly forgotten, Captain Rob and his crew seize an offer to deliver Yuletide cargo to the Town of Dryden by Christmas Eve, in exchange for their release. But to reach their destination in time, earn the king's pardon, and ensure their freedom, they will have to chart a course straight through pirate-infested waters - a fool's errand while sailing under the king's colors.

Clay just wants to get home. Six years ago, he moved to New York City after his wife and daughters were killed in a horrible automobile accident, and now, the day after Hurricane Sandy devastates the city and the tri-state area, Clay sets out on foot to escape both the city, and the prison of his old life there. What Clay discovers on his epic walk to freedom, will change everything... for everyone... forever. The Cold War is about to get Hot, and sometimes just saying 'NO' is a revolutionary act...

In Book 2 of the World of Murder series, Detectives O'Roarke and Garcia are chasing a serial killer and time is running out. Strippers have been found with their throats cut and the killer's rage is escalating. To make things worse they have over 100 potential suspects. Is the killer an ex-boyfriend? An Internet stalker? A tattoo artist? Or the neighborhood priest? A cook, a cabbie, or one of the many customers who frequent the strip joints?

Tanner runs into a complication while fulfilling a contract. The complication is a 10-year-old boy named Henry, who saw too much.

While a storm rages, Tanner faces off with Sara Blake in the small town of Ridge Creek, and neither one will quit until the other is dead.

A former intelligence agent and commando in WWII, Reese - who is also a Christian - repeatedly must extricate himself from dangerous situations, both at home and abroad, in each of the stories in this mystery series. In the first title, Ben is called away from a sabbatical in Oxford, England, to investigate the death of an eccentric, conservative professor who dies of a heart attack in Ohio moments after reporting that he has uncovered a terrible act of treachery.

Sara Blake offers Tanner a no-win proposition.

Tanner Returns and the conglomerate wants him dead. With their resources and vast troops of lethal thugs, the conglomerate assumed that killing one man would be easy. They were wrong! While Tanner is just one man, he is the last man you want to go to war wit. And when he teams up with another target of the conglomerate, he doubles his chances at surviving.

In Book 3 of The World of Murder series, Detectives O'Roarke and Garcia are called when a famous Broadway director dies. It appears that everyone hated this man, making the murder cops' job just that much harder. They have their pick of suspects as everyone within a five mile radius of Broadway had a reason to want this guy dead. From the jealous stage manager, to the resentful actors, to a disappointed and hurt lover.

Monty is a struggling, unknown artist, living in a loft in Soho. From his third floor walk up, he watches his beautiful neighbor as she comes and goes. Too shy and reclusive to ask her out, he paints her again and again. Suddenly the police are at his door. His goddess, his dream woman, is dead, and the police like him for the crime.As time passes, several other suspects come to the attention of the detective, Roarke, and the case is now not so open and shut. As the detective immerses himself in her life, it turns out that she has more than one secret.

Five years after his sister, Katie, was murdered, Father Michael Jerome has moved on with his life, but he has never forgotten that terrible time. And he has never stopped wondering who killed her. And why. When a dying criminal's confession points Michael toward answers to these questions, he embarks on a journey of discovery.

Detectives O'Roarke and Garcia have a cold case dumped on their desk. Despite their objections that they don't do cold cases, their commander tells them that they do now, since the new mayor has asked for them. Three years earlier, a relative of the mayor's was murdered and the case was never solved. The cold case plunges the murder cops into the world of television and cooking.

"Ethical Perspectives on History" seemed like an innocuous enough elective...until the teens taking it discovered that the genetic engineering that created the Alliance's alien races wasn't as sanitized and perfect as they were told as children. And that their new teacher, Kellen Grove, might have his own reasons for his passions. This is a senior year they'll never forget, especially one girl in particular.

As lead investigator of the Indiana State Police Major Crimes Unit, Detective Virgil Jones tackles only the toughest cases in the state, and the one he faces this time has the city of Indianapolis on edge, near the brink of panic. A team of serial snipers are on the loose. Their killing ground is the city. Their victims are chosen at random. Or are they? With no witnesses and very little evidence, it's up to Virgil Jones and his team to find out who is behind the on-going massacre and stop them once and for all...if they can.