The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, with Ray Liotta and Chris EvansHe was smart, merciless, and deadly. And it took someone just as tough to bring him down.A mob contract killer known as “The Iceman” for hiding a body in an ice-cream truck freezer, Richard Kuklinski boasted a personal body count of more than a hundred victims. Using guns, knives, poison, ice picks, tire irons, baseball bats, ...

A crime thriller starring two FBI agents up against the mob: "This series dazzles with fast, intricate plotting, terrific characters, and humor" ( Publishers Weekly).Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons were once odd-couple partners in crimesolving. But Gibbons has gone into retirement—and Tozzi has just gone renegade.After hot-headed Tozzi leaves a trail of bodies in his wake, Gibbons heads back to work to stop him. Instead, the two of them team up—and...

A rollicking coming-of-age comedy set in 1970s New Jersey, from a multiple award–nominated author.In this hilarious and biting novel, seventeen-year-old Frank Grimaldi wants one thing more than anything else—to have sex before he graduates. Too bad his crazy teachers, his insane parents, the Catholic Church, and the Mafia are all standing in the way . . .From the author of Bad Apple and the Anthony Award finalist Devil's Food, this is an i...

An FBI profiler plays a dangerous game with her mother's murderer in this chilling thriller by the author of Seven.FBI profiler Trisha McCleery has been on a twenty-year personal search for the person who brutally murdered her mother. At the same time, serial killer Gene Lassiter has been on an obsessive twenty-year search for the daughter of his first kill.If she finds him, justice can at last be served. If he finds her, one man's reign of terror ...

Anthony Award Finalist: A skip tracer chases an embezzler to Florida—and finds herself entangled with bikers and the IRS—in this thriller "packed with humor" ( Booklist).With her low-level law-enforcement career on the rocks, it's make-it-or-break-it time for zaftig Loretta Kovacs. She's been assigned to the ragtag Parole Violators Search Unit, a.k.a. the Jump Squad. All her buttons are pushed when she goes undercover as a desperate dieter at a Florida fat...

Two FBI agents investigate a shady real-estate mogul and the mob in Atlantic City in this "hilarious adventure" ( Publishers Weekly).A celebrity real estate tycoon wants to open the biggest casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey—the only problem being that he still owes millions to the mob, and he's not quite as rich as he seems to be . . .As FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons investigate, the story soon involves an oversexed trophy wife, a Ma...

"A cast of kooky, dangerous characters worthy of Elmore Leonard or Carl Hiaasen . . . A funny, often harrowing crime novel" ( Booklist).In this follow-up to the Anthony Award finalist Devil's Food, fugitive-hunter Loretta Kovacs races to keep one hitman from killing another. The intended victim is a valuable government witness against the mob, and a dirty FBI agent is helping the bad guys.Now, while she struggles to kick her caffeine habit...

A cops-and-mobsters crime thriller that "keeps us entertained with razzle-dazzle style" (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times).When an undercover FBI agent is murdered, the mob and the bureau race to nab the triggerman. The prime suspect takes agent Mike Tozzi hostage—and handcuffs him to the Mafia princess they both desire. Meanwhile, the big boss captures Tozzi's partner, Gibbons, intent on seeing justice served his way . . .From an Edgar and Antho...

"[A] tautly paced stunner . . . [Anthony Bruno] leavens the suspense with dark humor and builds to a slam-bang finale" ( Publishers Weekly).After two bodies—each of them hacked in half—are found in the Hudson River, FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons begin to investigate a deadly partnership between the Mafia and the Japanese yakuza.But they're in for a fight. After Gibbons takes a severe beating from a deranged assassin who believes he's t...

"Fans of comic mysteries should add Bruno to their must-read list, alongside Laurence Shames and Janet Evanovich" ( Booklist).The plus-size parole officer returns in this new novel by the author of Anthony Award finalist Devil's Food and Double Espresso. This time around, a sexy colleague "borrows" Loretta Kovacs's partner—and paramour—Frank Marvelli for an assignment in San Francisco, and jealous Loretta tails them.Then Marvelli ...

A fast, funny crime thriller featuring "the best fictional cop duo around" ( People).FBI Special Agents Cuthbert Gibbons and Mike Tozzi get into hot water when the turncoat mobster they were assigned to protect is found murdered—and Tozzi is the prime suspect.At the center of the crime is a dirty assistant US attorney who's been ordered to throw a major drug case to pay off a debt to a Sicilian gangster. But Gibbons and Tozzi are determined to brin...

A gangster runs his empire from behind the walls of an asylum in this witty crime thriller: "Bruno's novels have been total pleasure" ( People).Mobster or mental case? That's the question at the heart of FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons's latest case. Sal Immordino, incarcerated in a psychiatric institution, is actually plotting his comeback with the help of his sister (the nun) and a serial-killer-in-training. Bodies are piling up—and Gibbons an...