**Nominated for the Edgar® Award for Best First NovelOne of Booklist's "Year's Best Crime Novels"**After two years in federal prison, Jason Stafford is no longer welcome on Wall Street. But due to his financial crime expertise, one firm wants him to quietly look for irregularities in the books of one of their junior traders, whose body was just pulled from the Long Island Sound.Raising an autistic five-year-old alone, Stafford can’t refuse the lucrative off...

Shamus Award–winning author Michael Sears brings Queens, New York, to literary life in this crime series debut featuring a somewhat seedy lawyer with a heart of gold (or at least gold plate).Queens, New York—the most diverse place on earth. Native son Ted Molloy knows these streets like the back of his hand. Ted was once a high-powered Manhattan lawyer, but after a spectacular fall from grace, he has found himself back on his home turf, scraping by as a foreclosure...

Ex-Wall Street trader, ex-con, and devoted father to an autistic son, Jason Stafford first appeared in Black Fridays, “one of the year’s finest crime debuts” (Booklist). Now, in Mortal Bonds, he goes to work for the wealthy family of a financial criminal…William von Becker’s multibillion-dollar fund was limited to only the luckiest investors. Or so they thought.After the house of cards collapses and the disgraced von Becker commit...

As humanity pushes beyond Mars, it discovers an alien terror that destroys civilizations and now has them in its sights. Entire worlds have already fallen under its absolute judgment.To survive, they must ally with a dangerous being that offers the means to resist annihilation, but at what cost? Forced to flee their home, humanity must fight for the privilege to exist. (266 Pages, 6x9)

The latest Jason Stafford novel from Michael Sears, author of the highly acclaimed Long Way Down and Black FridaysJason Stafford used to be a hot Wall Street trader, went too far, and paid for it in prison. Now a financial investigator, he’s been asked to look into rumors of a hostile takeover of his firm, but he has no idea it will turn his whole life upside down. Suddenly embroiled in a grand jury investigation of Mob-related activities on Wall ...

From the author of the acclaimed, award-winning debut novel Black Fridays, comes a story of murder, greed, and corruption—and the lengths to which one man will go for his family.He approached me in the street—bone-thin, gray-bearded, holding out a small envelope. “The man said you’d give me five bucks for it.” Inside was a one-word message: RUN.Two years in a federal prison has changed Jason Stafford, is still changing him, but one thing i...

Ted Molloy, a Queens attorney with a troublesome penchant for noble causes, investigates the murder of a corrupt immigration lawyer in the sharply observed follow-up to the 2022 Nero Award winner Tower of Babel.Ted Molloy has hit his stride with a foreclosure investment scheme that brings him into contact with a cast of shady characters across New York’s most diverse borough, from Hollis to Howard Beach. On the side, he helps his activist girlfriend, Kenzi...

This is a fun story cowritten by a mother and daughter. This hand illustrated book will put a smile on your face as you follow a little girl through her day at home with her mom. It is a lighthearted easy read for little ones and is sure to become a bedtime favorite!

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Sometimes a man can be redeemed. But not in the way he expects.Jason Stafford is a former Wall Street hotshot who made some bad moves, paid the price with two years in prison, and is now trying to put his life back together. He’s unemployable, until an investment firm asks him to look into possible problems left by a junior trader who died recently in an accident. What he discovers is big – there are problems, all right, the kind that get you killed.But it’s not hi...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.“This is more than a guide to running a profitable agency. It’s a blueprint for running one that earns respect.” Phil Spencer, Channel 4 presenter (Location, Location, Location), author and founder of Move iQ.Do you feel as though you are constantly working in your business, with no time to work on it? Are you struggling to take your business to the next level, despite working really hard? Or are you seeking guidance as a new en...

From the author of the acclaimed, award-winning debut novel Black Fridays, comes a story of murder, greed, and corruption-and the lengths to which one man will go for his family. He approached me in the street-bone-thin, gray-bearded, holding out a small envelope. "The man said you'd give me five bucks for it." Inside was a one-word message: RUN. Two years in a federal prison has changed Jason Stafford, is still changing him, but one thing it has taught him as a financial investigator is h...