From the award-winning author of the Art Hardin series—Private Heat, Dying Embers, and Dead Bang—comes a compelling new mystery, Déjà Noir.Ray Kerze hasn’t been having the best time of it. His closest friends are the guys in line with him at the liquor store before breakfast. He lives in his office in the decaying heart of Detroit, and that’s only because the building is so far gone, no one shows up to collect rent. An ex-cop turned private inves...

Private Detective and retired counterintelligence officer Art Hardin usually stays away from the flashy kind of PI work, paying his bills by doing surveillance, checking up on false disability claims, and the like. So when the senior partner one of the premier legal firms in Grand Rapids approaches Hardin about a job protecting his niece from her soon-to-be ex-husband for a couple of days, Hardin isn't exactly eager to take on the job, not the least because the niece herself is under house...

This book provides the background, knowledge, and tools to model and assess the health of freshwater ecosystems. For more than 100 years, freshwater scientists have used the biota living in an ecosystem to assess the effects of human activity (bioassessment), and in the last 50 years, in jurisdictions around the world, bioassessment of freshwater ecosystems has been embedded in legislation. In the 1990s, there was general acceptance of the so-called “Reference Condition Approach" to bioass...

This book is a first-person autobiographical account of sustained psychological pressure, displacement, and survival experienced across multiple countries and institutions 2012-25 , also between 2001 and 2025.Written from lived experience rather than theory, it documents whistleblowing, retaliation, systemic failure, and the long-term psychological effects of prolonged exposure to threat, isolation, and coercion. The narrative follows a chronological path, examining how hostile env...

This is the raw, unfiltered account of a life lived under sustained pressure across multiple countries, systems, and institutions between 2001 and 2025.Written as lived experience rather than theory, this book documents survival, retaliation, institutional failure, and the psychological toll of prolonged exposure to threat, isolation, and coercion. It does not offer self-help techniques or clinical instruction. It records events as they occurred, from the author's perspective, with...

Then:Leo Graham knows nothing new ever happens in the small town of Pacific Shores. That is, until he runs into his new neighbor. Golden haired, honey-eyed, and sharp-tongued, Darby Andrews. As Leo and Darby's budding friendship turns into a burning love that neither of them could've expected, Leo is determined to protect it at all costs. Until he finds the girl of his teenage dreams ran away in the middle of the night without so much as a goodbye.Now:Darby Andrews ...

This study provides a new interpretation of art after modernism by foregrounding the importance of conceptual thinking as a pervasive force for change in art and art history since 1950.Robert Bailey shows how distinctions between art and art history gave way as conceptual thinking provided artists and art historians with a common means to reassess what art could be and do in the world. Bailey assesses the results of artful and scholarly inquiries combining creative activity with in...

The Making of A1 – Who Dares Wins: The Formation of MR39-7 and the Path to TRSR-7This is not a conventional memoir.It is the consolidation of lived experience under sustained pressure, structured into a working system.Across a timeline spanning from early life through to 2026, this book documents the formation of identity, discipline and operational mindset within environments that required constant adaptation. What began as exposure to instability, ...

From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Robert Bailey comes a compelling legal thriller about a lawyer who takes on his sister’s case—and confronts small-town secrets and family skeletons.Attorney Jason Rich has made a fortune off other people’s bad luck. His billboard slogan—“In an accident? Get Rich!”—accosts motorists on highways from Alabama to Florida. As ambulance chasers go, he’s exceptional.But after a recent divorce and a stint in reha...

Aquatic ecosystem assessment is a rapidly developing field, and one of the newer approaches to assessing the condition of rivers and lakes is the Reference Condition Approach. This is a significant advancement in biomonitoring because it solves the problem of trying to locate nearby control or reference sites when studying an ecosystem that may be degraded, a problem that bedevils traditional approaches. Rather than using upstream reference sites in a river system or next-bay-over referenc...

In Art & Language International Robert Bailey reconstructs the history of the conceptual art collective Art & Language, situating it in a geographical context to rethink its implications for the broader histories of contemporary art. Focusing on its international collaborations with dozens of artists and critics in and outside the collective between 1969 and 1977, Bailey positions Art & Language at the center of a historical shift from Euro-American modernism to a global contempor...

"Keeng"The blood-stained dinner knife fell to the marble floor, the sound of metal resounded coldly, in the middle of the magnificent room was a thin, small girl with scattered black hair, her shoulders shaking. Lying on the floor, in front of her eyes was a human body, blood from the stab wounds in the abdomen poured out, dyeing her white evening dress red, forming a large puddle on the floor.- AAA! Kill people… kill people! – The maid who had just opened the door shouted ...