For decades, boxing fans, fighters, and media have questioned the decisions that define careers and shape the sport. But what if the real problem isn't bad judging, but instead, misunderstood judging?In Judging Pro Boxing, veteran official Tom Schreck takes you inside the most scrutinized seat in sports: ringside with the scorecard in hand.Drawing on over thirty years of experience, Schreck breaks down the science and strategy behind how fights are actually scored,...

Since 2005, Murder & Mayhem in Muskego has welcomed and hosted over 150 authors a thousands of fans of crime fiction to the Milwaukee area. Just in time for the 8th annual benefit, a short story anthology featuring bestselling, Edgar and Shamus award-winning writers who have attended the day-long convention has been created. The collection is edited by Jon and Ruth Jordan.Contributors include: Megan Abbott, Dana Cameron, Reed Farrel Coleman, Hilary Davidson, Sean Doolittle, J.M. Ed...

Fresh out of graduate school, CIA psychologist Trace Curran works his dream job providing trauma-based psychotherapy and researching the threat level of Antifa-based organizations. While domestic terror escalates, Trace's world is rocked when an agent on his caseload commits a murder-suicide. Then, the death of his father and the split with his fiance, leave him dealing with a breakdown.On leave from CIA duties, Trace returns home to bartend at the family's tavern. The daily duties...

When TJ Dunn enlisted in the US Army, she knew the combat and emotional risks. Six years earlier, her father, an Army veteran, killed himself. But TJ is tough, determined to carry her own weight as a soldier, until one day when her team is ambushed during a mission in Iraq. As the only survivor, TJ is left both physically and psychologically traumatized. Yet even as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her friends, she receives another devastating blow: her fiancé, stationed in ...

When Duffy helps a young city girl get treatment for her addiction in a Florida rehab, he thinks he did good, that is until he finds out she's caught up in the shuffle, a diabolical exploitation of addicted women. When she realizes she's not there to get help but to be forced into prostitution, kept on drugs, and coerced into financially exploiting the system for her captors, she splits. When a mass shooting destroys the rehab, and the evidence points to her, Duffy knows she's been set up....

When Mushie, the popular street hustler of counterfeit watches, sneakers, and kitchen gadgets, comes in to Duffy's bar bleeding from a gunshot wound to the stomach, Duffy and the gang are baffled. Everyone loved Mush, who didn't have a mean bone in his body. Sure, he operated on the edges of what's considered proper society, but, hey, so did a lot of Duffy's friends.For Duffy, it's different. Mush was Hymie's, Duff's father-like mentor, grandson and Duff had promised to keep an eye...

Duffy is back!After almost a decade, our social working, pro boxing, Schlitz drinking, Basset Hound loving, bleeding heart tough guy has no idea what he's in store for.His world literally blows up with a new gig, a career shift, another hound, and though he's still spending most of the time in AJ's, now it is from the other side of the bar.Duffy's buddy and the owner of his drinking haunt dies suddenly, and before he knows it, Duffy is in the tavern business. AJ's c...

When Karl, the schizophrenic, ex-GI with post traumatic issues shows up on Duffy's caseload talking about governmental conspiracy predictions Duff takes it in stride. When Karl's terrorist predictions start coming true and he prattles on about the motives of defense contractors, security firms and the profits of war, Duff begins to pay attention. But when Duff suffers his own traumatic brain injury getting knocked out in the ring, Karl doesn't look so crazy any more.With his own sa...

On the eve of Notre Dame's biggest football weekend of the year, the past refuses to stay buried.As Irish fans flood campus for the showdown against Georgia, psychologist and Notre Dame alum Trace Curran is pulled into a nightmare when bodies begin appearing—each murder staged with chilling precision, as if someone is turning the university into a ritual.Trace uncovers a forgotten link between Notre Dame and General William Tecumseh Sherman—the man who burned Atlanta, whose...

JA Konrath is the author of the Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels mysteries, Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, Rusty Nail, Dirty Martini, Fuzzy Navel, and Cherry Bomb. Daniels is a Chicago homicide cop with a wicked sense of humor, and the novels fluctuate between funny business and serious suspense.Tom Schreck is the author of the Duffy Dombrowski mysteries, On the Ropes, TKO, and Out Cold. Duffy is a social wor...

New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization's bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, here are twenty-five brand-new, never-before published, stories packed with murder, mystery, and mayhem.*A cunning criminal thinks he can use a child to take the rap for his crimes.*A hospital intern turned body-snat...

The Year's Best Crime & Mystery Stories contains the best crime and mystery stories that were originally published in 2015 in either print or electronic format as selected by editors Kristine Kathryn Rusch and John Helfers.Reading through thousands of titles and carefully narrowing their favorite reads down to the ultimate list that is presented in this volume, the editors chose their top picks of notable works from hundreds of anthologie...