A multimillion-dollar art heist.A murder suspect on borrowed time.The shocking conspiracy that ties them together.Houston private investigator Malcolm Ly doesn't need dangerous cases. He's still regaining his footing after a recent job cost him his son's life. The only reason he accepts his latest client, a man locked up for a double homicide who says he's been framed, is the paycheck.Tragedy or not, rent is...

Second place winner of the 2025 Short Story competition hosted by the Houston Writer's Guild/ WIVLA.When a fresh body drops with new evidence linking it to a series of cold case murders, semi-retired death investigator Sam Nolan is forced to open old wounds to catch the killer before another girl goes missing. Will he finally be able to put the case to rest, or will this hideous crime simply unravel perplexing new secrets.

A perfect family. A moment that will change everything.Emma wakes up in hospital with no memories of the past 24 hours and no idea why she’s there. And her husband and son refuse to visit her.As she frantically tries to piece together her memories to find out what happened, Emma is desperate to ensure her loved ones are safe. But all she can remember is the last thing she saw before she blacked out: a pair of cold, dark eyes…An ad...

Detective Billy Harney’s reputation as a dirty cop may be the only thing keeping Chicago clean in this thrilling novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author.For Detective Billy Harney, getting shot in the head, stalked by a state’s attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is a normal week on the job. So when a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's west side turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. But Harney's instincts—his father was once chief ...

In this companion to #1 New York Times bestseller The Black Book, Detective Billy Harney chases down a prison escape artist and billionaire crime boss—while a young girl’s life hangs in the balance.As Chicago PD’s special-ops leader, Detective Billy Harney knows well that money is not the only valuable currency. The filthy rich man he’s investigating is down to his last twenty million. He’s also being held in jail.For now.Billy’s u...

Kara needs fast cash to pay her ailing father’s gambling debt.Working as a blackjack dealer at the Billionaire Club is her last resort.Until a one-night-stand with notorious bad boy Cash Westbrook changes her luck.Cash has offered to pay her father’s debt…for a price.I can’t believe my luck when I land a job dealing blackjack at the new Billionaire Club in Las Vegas. And it keeps getting bet...

Friendly, affable Bobby looks like a younger version of Richard Gere, but with even more charm. You'd love to have him for a next door neighbor until he tells you stories of his life as a drug addict. In this article, he talks about robbing a pharmacy at gunpoint to get the drug OxyContin, which is a painkilling opoid. Young men like Bobby are robbing drug stores throughout the United States to get this drug. Bobby also hijacked a van, crashed during a police chase, faked seizures in the h...

Welcome to Red Heights. A town with a killer reputation… Seriously.Monsters. Homicidal maniacs. A killer sock monkey that never stops laughing. A whole gang of nightmares await your arrival with bloody, open arms.With LESSONS V: THE TERRIBLE TOWN AND OTHER MORBID DRABBLES, you'll find forty short tales, each only a hundred words long. Some will make you giggle. Others might make you want to sleep with the lights on.Either way, your stay at Red Heights will be a memo...

When you come out of safe mode, they may just bury you if you're not careful...Deep Six computer guru Dex Buchanan goes to Vegas get his geek on, but runs into his ex-lover getting her freak on. Or is she?No, Dr. Grace Wentworth is in Sin City to find her missing sister who was lured there by a monster. Dex agrees to help her, but will they find her before her final curtain call? Or will he pay the ultimate price for not minding his own business?In ...

A dark tale in every sense of the word. Some actions we take take little to no thought, and then there are those things we do which take more planning than anyone suspected.www.banocanut.com

BOOKS 1-4 OF THE GIRL UNDERCOVER SERIES:LAPD Detective Gabi Longoria returns home one night to a nasty surprise--her husband has been brutally killed. A note next to his body says: "Rats always get what they deserve."Her captain refuses to let her join the murder investigation, so Gabi decides to do her own. Convinced the reason to her husband's death can be found at the New York health club where she met him, she goes undercover as a trainer there.In the process of...

This true story about chasing a burglary suspect through a housing project has an unusual ending for the police officers and the suspect. First in the Nine Lives Series of short stories.