It's 1994, and veteran homicide detective John Bowers teams up with his partner Minola Raye to solve another grisly murder in Babylon-Portland, Oregon's fringe district of losers and forgotten victims. Like hungry sharks, Babylon's riffraff feed on the innocent and vulnerable, and only case-hardened cops like Bowers seek justice in a system that has no heart.During a quiet weekend, a young woman has just drifted to sleep when her first waking sensation is a crushing weight falling ...

It’s a good day to die for lawyers. A deposition is about to begin in a large, metro law firm where the senior partner is breathing his last before a shooter barges into the conference room and redecorates with blood and brains compliments of his Glock nine.The shooter seems like a nice guy. Admits everything, asks for his lawyer and the only question unanswered by the Central Precinct detectives is the motive. Lots of folks have grudges against lawyers, but this killer’s reaction ...

Detective John Bowers is a wily veteran with the Portland Police Bureau. The only mystery Bowers hasn't solved in 23 years behind the badge is blonde and comes in all flavors. The last split cost him his house, his furniture, his drift boat and his motivation. John blames it all on bloodsucking divorce lawyers.Tracking a call girl's killer through Portland's sleazy sex trade, John and his new partner Minola Raye (Betty Boop with a nine mm on her hip) discover aBureau cover-upandunr...

Mad, immortal stories now surfaced from the literary underground.This collection of stories was once part of the 1972 City Lights classic, *Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.*That book was later split into two volumes and republished:Tales of Ordinary Madness and, this book, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town.These stories have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establ...

One huge book of jokes that takes around 15 seconds to say...Some examples:A cop saw a young blonde woman down on her knees under a streetlight. "Can I help you?" he asked. Replied the womanˏ "I dropped my diamond ring and I'm looking for it."Asked the cop "did you drop it right here?""Noˏ" she respondedˏ "I dropped it about a block awayˏ but the light's better here."Wanting to surprise her husbandˏ Michelle Obama stopped by the Oval Office. She found ...

True biography of a madam known throughout the west in the 1930s, 1940s and up through the 1960s.This biography of Vickie Star was transcribed and pulled together by R. B. Griffith in Vickie Star's home. It was a year-long process. Star wanted her story told. While pulling the first draft together, Griffith's agent arranged for publication by Ballentine Books. An advance of $25,000 was offered but Vickie Starr had just read where Lee Iaccoca had received a million dollar advance fo...

Five mysteries spanning more than four decades in the life of career police officer Sam Jenkins.THE BOAT TO PRISON — set in 1963 when a teenaged Jenkins and his friends attempt to foil a plot to kill a Long Island union leader and keep Sam's shop steward father from doing hard time.FAVORS drops readers into a New York of 1985 when Lieutenant Sam Jenkins mounts an unofficial investigation to learn why one of his civilian employees isn't overjoyed about her promotion to polic...

Roy James, is an ex-boxer who now runs a debt-collecting business. One day, a beautiful woman appears at his office and asks for his help. Her husband is a violent brute and she asks Roy to change his habits. Although a seemingly simple job at first, there seems to be a lot more going on behind the scenes than Roy first expected. The police get involved and the chase leads all the way to Vegas so Roy can clear his name and keep his business clean.

Only Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, can imagine the horror of a good and angry man who fights back against bureaucracy when it threatens to destroy his vitality, home, and memories. “Under any name King mesmerizes the reader” (Chicago Sun-Times).Barton Dawes is standing in the way of progress when his unremarkable but comfortable existence suddenly takes a turn for the worst. A new highway extension is being built right over the laundry plant wh...

The author of BLOOD BROTHER returns with a psychological thriller featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers – his brother’s one.TV evangelist Reverend Scaler made his fortune from firebrand rhetoric on the sins of modern America. But Scaler has preached his last sermon after being bound and beaten to death in an apparent S&M session.Detective Carson Ryder has his own problems. He's edgy and unpredictable, the crime scene barely seemin...

New York Times–Bestselling Author: A novel of a cop on the edge that "capture[s] the excitement, terror, pity, and occasional tedium of police work" ( The Boston Globe).Twenty and two. Those are the numbers turning in the mind of William "Bumper" Morgan: twenty years on the job, two days before he pulls the pin and walks away from it forever. But on the streets of L.A., people look at Bumper like some kind of knight in armor—they've plied him with ...

**Originally published in the RIDING DESIRE: Alpha Bad Boy Bikers boxed set**My name is Eve Parker, and I'm as normal as can be. Well, at least I was.His name is Ash, and he's the enforcer for the Savage Legion motorcycle club. I never imagined a man like him would even look at me, let alone pursue me relentlessly. One touch of his hand leaves me melting, but I know he is bad news. I almost let things go too far the very first time we met, then he disappeared on me....