Booklist, in its starred review, called CHOKE POINT "equal parts classic PI novel, social critique, and psychological drama." The Mysterious Bookshop Newsletter described it as "a fantastic novel."The Dallas Morning News praised a "compelling story of betrayal and death." Publishers Weekly called it "gripping."From the original publisher, St. Martin's Press:"On the streets of Tucson, Arizona, a riot breaks out after a basketball game and a man is shot dead in the st...

Booklist declared LOVERS CROSSING "as satisfying as the debuts of such classic series heroes as Parker's Spenser and Grafton's Kinsey Millhone.... Outstanding."LOVERS CROSSING introduces Brinker, a disillusioned Border Patrol Agent turned private investigator in Tucson.Mo Crain, a rich and powerful car dealer, hires Brinker to solve the inexplicable murder of his wife, Sandra. The police have not succeeded so far and Crain is impatient.While Brinker looks for leads,...

"Fast moving... well written and informative about the illegal scene."J.C. Martin, Arizona Daily StarSomebody is killing immigration lawyer Carla Baca's clients. She hires Brinker to investigate, setting up his most dangerous case ever.From Tucson to Mexico to parts of Los Angeles that tourists seldom see, Brinker follows leads in seemingly-unrelated murders, before stumbling into mass killings in the southwestern desert.Two-time Shamus Award nominee James C....

Since former US Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world's most effective investigation firm - sought out by the famous and the powerful to discreetly handle their most intimate problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world - and they always uncover the truth.When his former lover is found murdered in Jack's bed, he is instantly the number one suspect. While Jack is under police investigation a...

A Cuban detective's quest for vengeance against her father's killer leads her to a mysterious Colorado mountain town in this intense crime thriller.A man is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the town of Fairview, Colorado. He is an illegal immigrant in a rich Hollywood resort community not unlike Telluride. No one is prosecuted for his death and his case is quietly forgotten.Six months later another illegal makes a treacherous run across th...

A gripping new novel in the three-time Shamus Award-winning Amos Walker series.The New York Times calls Amos Walker a "streetwise indestructible tiger with an ethical code that keeps him with the good guys." In a sharp new thriller, Detroit's most savvy private eye is up to his neck in international drug-smuggling, hit squads, double-identities, music-industry gangsters, and a client who's nothing but trouble.Gilia Cristobal is a singer with a complicated past. Her...

He raised the chalice, they prayed and they sang. He was dead the moment he drank the blood.A crowd gathers for a funeral at a downtown New York church. As Father Flores smiles down on his congregation and drinks from the chalice of Christ's blood, he falls down dead. But who would murder a priest?Lieutenant Eve Dallas is convinced there is more to Flores than meets the eye. When an autopsy reveals old combat wounds, and someone begins to destroy every last...

Detective Shane Scully responds to a call in the Hollywood hills at a once-immaculate mansion, the scene of an infamous murder twenty-five years prior. He discovers the remnants of a lavish pool party. The revelers have fled, leaving three dead bodies in their wake, all shot with the same gun. One is an acclaimed film producer. The other two, a pair of gorgeous women.With his new partner, Sumner "Hitch" Hitchens, Scully begins to investigate what looks to be an open-and-shut case: T...

In this electrifying thriller, Lt. Shane Scully finds himself accused of evidence tampering and caught in a web of corruption, betrayal, and illicit affairs.Charged with felony misconduct in a high-profile solicitation of murder case, Lieutenant Shane Scully faces an impossible decision: quietly resign from his beloved job as an LAPD detective or face criminal prosecution. Choosing to protect the department's reputation and his own, Scully leaves, only to be shunne...

A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm.First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of having failed to warn them that the suspect had a huge arsenal of illegal weapons in his house.Soon therea...

A public defender must defend the rarest of clients—someone she believes to be innocentJessica Thompson is training for a marathon, running fifty miles a week not just to stay in shape, but to help her forget that she spends her days in service to some of California's worst criminals. As a public defender in Los Angeles, this is par for the course. But Roberto Salazar is an unusual client: a kind, mild-mannered man with a clean record who has been accused of traffic...

More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juárez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border city of Juárez has been hit hardest of all. And yet, more than a million people still live there. They even love their impoverished city, proudly repeating its mantra: "Amor por Juárez."...