One of the most important questions of our previous common volumes about affective, schizoaffective, and schizophrenic disorders was the question of what connects and what separates psychotic disorders (Marneros and Tsuang, Schizo affective Psychoses, Springer-Verlag, 1986; Marneros and Tsuang Affective and Schizoaffective Disorders, Springer-Verlag, 1990; Marneros, Andreasen, and Tsuang, Negative and Positive Schizophrenia, Springer-Verlag 1993). The boundaries between various psychotic d...

This is no ordinary wild animal removal call…In the sleepy panhandle of Florida, Benjamin “Elmo” Simpson has carved out a comfortable niche as the go-to wild animal removal specialist. Life is sweet until a peculiar service request takes him to a local condo and an unexpected scene. Retired lawyer Fran Cohen is missing and in his apartment is a well-fed alligator that appears to have enjoyed a nice breakfast with…or rather, of…Fran.All evidence points toward murder, and loc...

Paradise Springs is buzzing with its first-ever arts and music festival—but a shocking murder threatens to bury the fun.Elmo Simpson, animal removal specialist, resort owner, and festival committee chair, expects a weekend of sandcastles and performances. Instead, there’s a body buried in the sand the morning of the beach sculpture contest. When his friend and business partner, Jordan Selassie, becomes the prime suspect, Elmo is forced into another high-st...

Wild animal removal specialist Elmo Simpson needs to act fast before the good people of Paradise Springs decide to remove him!Halloween has arrived, and all is well in Elmo Simpson’s life until his beloved cat Oscar wanders off and doesn’t return. While searching for Oscar, Elmo discovers a body in a ditch. A body that turns out to be Elmo’s former arch-nemesis, a man who Elmo believes stole intellectual property from him worth millions.When word gets out who the victim is,...

Wild animal removal specialist Elmo Simpson has another murder on his hands. It’s starting to become a habit…When a body is found on the beach near the Paradise Springs marina in the sleepy panhandle of Florida, Elmo’s disinclined to weigh in on it. But the victim is Desiree LaFontaine, former first mate of Elmo’s girlfriend, Nic, who apparently was the last person to see Desiree alive. Which makes Nicola suspect number one.But there are other suspects. Like Craig Abbott, o...

Christmas in Paradise Springs is in full swing—even if it’s shaping up to be a quieter one for Elmo Simpson. Until a little girl asks Santa for the impossible.Wild animal removal specialist Elmo Simpson is spending the holidays playing Santa at the community park—and his girlfriend is about to head out of town to visit family, leaving him to a quieter-than-planned Christmas.Then a child makes one simple wish: bring her father home for Christmas.The ...

The West had its outlaws. She was their reckoning.When the law looks the other way and the frontier bleeds under the hands of cutthroats, one name strikes fear into the hearts of wanted men—Justine Justice.Armed with a Winchester and a Colt Navy, Justine rides alone across the mesas and canyons, chasing Jesse Pike and his pack of killers into the infamous Wolf's Den. For ten long years she has followed their trail of fire and blood, and now the final reckoning waits in the ...

They say Boone Calhoun once ruled the frontier with iron and gunfire.They say men crossed the street when they saw him coming.They say blood followed wherever he rode.Now he's older. Slower. Forgotten by most.But when a young deputy pins a faded wanted poster bearing his name to the saloon wall, the past rides back into town with a vengeance.Boone Calhoun has lived long enough to see his legend twisted into something ugly. Murderer. Butcher. Devil.

When outlaw Fanark brings terror to Dusty Creek, only bounty hunter Clem Canary has the grit—and the nerve—to bring him in. Outnumbered, outgunned, and hunted on the open prairie, Clem faces ambushes, midnight gunfights, and a town too scared to stand up. But justice rides with Clem Canary, and he'll face down the worst the West has to offer—even if it means staring death in the eye at every turn.

When notorious outlaw Silas Boone brings chaos to the Texas frontier, bounty hunter Robert Ricoq rides into the sun-baked town of Fenton, where justice is as scarce as water. Facing ambushes, betrayal, and a town caught between fear and hope, Ricoq must use every ounce of grit and skill to bring Boone in—dead or alive. But as danger closes in and enemies multiply, Ricoq learns that peace in the West is never more than a gunshot away.Gritty, fast-paced, and true to the spirit of the...