When private investigator Dick Hardesty is hired by businessman Stuart Anderson to conduct routine background checks on potential store managers, he becomes reacquainted with a former trick, Phil Stark, who has undergone an amazing transformation from bar hustler to professional escort.
Exhausted from her first year on a new job, Capri Olindo (Pree) returns to Laughlin, Nevada, to spend the holidays with family and old friends and to become better acquainted with Bonnie Hall, her son Jimmy's fiance, a young woman who grew up on the streets of Las Vegas, whose mother had been killed during a drug buy.
Ellie Quicke has her work cut out when past wrongdoings put the future of a child she's grown to love at stakeEllie opens the door to a man who is a stranger but instantly recognisable as the father of her housekeeper's brilliant but difficult young son.
For a long time, the authorities around the Bay Area were unaware that a serial killer had found a unique way to dispose of his victims' remains-at least, some of the remains.
With Marcus and Grace helping close the bodies in the barrels case, Detective Superintendent Declan Macdonald offers Grace continuing development in the detective ranks, but her declaration of interest in Marcus sees her teamed up with Detective Adam McAddam and front line on the sexual assault and torture pack investigation.
DCI Henry Christie, taken off an anonymous murder case and transferred into a dead-end desk job, leaps at the chance to investigate the brutal killing of an ex-cop turned sleazy private eye.
The culmination of a life long dream leads Dan Stark on misadventures and near death experiences as a Patrolman in the New York City Police Department.
The long-awaited second novel in Todd Robinson's Anthony Award-nominated Boo and Junior seriesThe long-awaited second novel in Todd Robinson's Anthony Award-nominated Boo and Junior seriesThe long-awaited second novel in Todd Robinsons Anthony Award-nominated Boo and Junior seriesWhen a waitress at The Cellar asks Boo and Junior to scare her roommate Danas harassing ex-boyfriend, Byron, Boos white knight impulses kick in and they perform the job with gusto, leaving Byron bloodied but very much alive.
