Battling New York traffic is the least of cabbie Simon Jaffe's problems. With a shrewish wife, difficult kids, and the usual middle aged angst, his only escape is reading hard boiled mysteries. Chandler, Hammett, McDonald, Spillane, Parker—they're good, but nothing beats the Red Diamond private eye series for tough guy patter, bedazzling dames and thuggish villains.When Simon is mugged and robbed of his identity, the trauma causes him to become Red Diamond. With the skills he's pic...

This book evolved out of 15 years of doing trainings for individuals struggling with out-of-control people. I worked for decades in community behavioral healthcare, and was certified in two different systems for managing acting out behavior that could range from mild verbal aggression to physical assault. Over the years, I dug down deeper into the research, and also gathered on the experience and expertise of the many dedicated people I worked with. This book is meant to be helpful for any...

Brian Hanson, a crisis counselor in Portland, Oregon is developing a relationship with FBI agent Louise Parker. But someone with much darker intent has a relationship with her too, and is stalking and harassing her.Parker's life is in a downward spiral, worsened after a raid she is leading on a white supremacist compound goes horribly wrong. She's suspended pending investigation of the debacle and her personal struggles deepen. But Hanson knows about downward spirals from his job an...

The second Red Diamond private eye novel sees the detective, actually a delusional New York cab driver, solving a mystery in Las Vegas. Red thinks he's a 1940s private investigator, and is willing to take on organized crime in his quest for his lady love, Fifi La Roche. He believes that arch villain Rocco Rico is behind all the problems. With skills picked up from reading countless pulp detective novels, confidence born of insanity, his cabbie skills, and a dollop of good luck, Red takes o...

Mark Schorr's critically acclaimed 10th novel, a thriller about a Portland, Oregon crisis counselor who battles to uncover a murderous conspiracy after the suspicious death of one of his clients. The title comes from the borderline personality disorder diagnosis, people who are subject to strong impulsivity, emotions, and self destructive behaviors.Hanson is a Vietnam veteran with his own issues, PTSD and recovery from drug addiction. They're what motivated him to work as a therapis...

Being the 26th U.S. president is sometimes more of a burden than an asset for Theodore Roosevelt. Our youngest president investigates a dangerous conspiracy that could alter the course of history while he runs the country, engages in his unique lifestyle, and manages a quirky personal life.In 1903 and the United States is coming into its own as a world power. Ground-breaking inventions, radical new labor unions, corrupt officials, waves of struggling immigrants, and robber barons cr...

In the 3rd novel featuring Red Diamond, the downtrodden N.Y. cabbie turned hardboiled private eye is living in Los Angeles, and gets drawn into the world of rock and roll. Big Band forties meets big hair eighties, with the quest for lady love Fifi La Roche, and the vile machinations of arch villain Rocco Rico. Gritty, sentimental and deftly written, Diamond is back in print after two decades.Battling New York traffic is the least of cabbie Simon Jaffe's problems. With a shrewish wi...

Vietnam vet Brian Hanson is in recovery from drug abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder. He's turned his life around, working as a therapist with some of Portland, Oregon's, most troubled citizens.When one of his clients relays a dramatic, paranoid story, it's easy to be dismissive. But when she dies under suspicious circumstances, Hanson is drawn into her world, the seedy underside of Portland. Was she the target of a serial killer, or of a conspiracy?As he investigates...

“J. I. Baker takes a bold run into Cain and DeLillo territory and scores.” —Barry Gifford, author of Wild at HeartIn the early-morning hours of August 5, 1962, Los Angeles County deputy coroner Ben Fitzgerald arrives at the home of the world’s most famous movie star, now lying dead in her bedroom. There he discovers The Book of Secrets—Marilyn Monroe’s diary—revealing a doomed love affair with a man she refers to only as “The Gene...

Lawrence Block's 17 Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the world—along with a bevy of awards including the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe (Germany), and the Maltese Falcon (Japan). And it's MattScudder who's been largely reponsible for Block's lifetime achievement awards: Grand Master (Mystery Writers of America), The Eye (Private Eye Writers of America), and the Cartier Diamond Dagger (UK Crime Writers Association).But Scudder has starred in sh...

“My favorite Leonard book….He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they sharpened their senses of ironic humor and grew better ears for dialogue.”—Dallas Morning News“The best writer of crime fiction alive.”—NewsweekDangerously eccentric characters, razor-sharp black humor, brilliant dialog, and suspense all rolled into one tight package—that’s The Switch, Elmore Leonard’s classic tale of a kidnapping gone wrong…...

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • This suspenseful novel portrays a community--and a family--under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s.Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who calls Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicl...