Jimmy Spain is back. After the events of the first book, THE PICASSO FLOP, Jimmy and his protégé, Kat Landrigan, are competing in another World Poker Tour event in Niagara Falls. Among all the bizarre and crazy gamblers who will literally bet on anything, as well as poker players—such as a puppet, a woman who recites poetry between hands, and a Marilyn Monroe impersonator—Jimmy finds himself once again involved in a murder plot. Attempting to find a killer while concentrating on his cards ...

NYPD Detective Sergeant Dennis McQueen has his hands full with a very bizarre case. A series of dead bodies have been found, all frozen -- killed by various methods, but disposed of in the same manner. Just a coincidence, or is there a serial killer at work?Things heat up when McQueen is sent to investigate a body found in the rubble of a fire and meets FDNY Fire Marshal Mason Willis. Willis is investigating it as an arson, but the medical examiner's report makes it obvious that th...

From some of the hottest names in crime fiction today come original stories written expressly for this collection.These taut tales, loaded with tension and charged with uncertainty, bring each victim—the unsuspecting, the hunted, the fearful—into the deadly sights of a hired killer’s gun.From New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors come these stories:“Keller’s Karma” by Lawrence Block, read by Stefan Rudnicki“A Trip Home” by Ed Gorman, ...

A notorious gunslinger challenges Liz Archer to the showdown of her life… or death.Liz Archer steps in to protect innocent ranchers from a crooked banker in Wyoming who is grabbing up all their land. Liz falls hard for widowed Andrew Carter after saving his family from fire, threats and an attempted kidnapping.In a final showdown, she comes face to face with Griff Taylor, a hired gunfighter who is more animal than man. In this duel to the death, Liz must prove, once again, ...

A ROUGH LIFE BREEDS HARD MEN… AND THEY DON'T GET ANY HARDER THAN MOUNTAIN JACK PIKE!big, brawling bear of a man, Jack Pike is the king of a vanishing breed of mountain men, and the best beaver trapper in the Rockies! Loud and lusty, rough and randy, he's got all the right tools to survive in the heartless wilderness... and the ones to keep the ladies satisfied! At the annual mountain man "Rendezvous," Jack Pike goes hand-to-hand with an old enemy—the jamboree's "booshway" Dan Fitzs...

MOUNTAINEERING BREEDS HARD MEN—AND THEY DON’T COME ANY HARDER THAN... MOUNTAIN JACK PIKEA bold and brawny trapper hungry for beaver, he's rough and ready mountain Jack Pike!A steel-fisted, bear of a man. Jack Pike is the toughest hunk of man-flesh the Rockies ever spawned. Men want to best him, women need to love him, and he always meets their challenges head on.When falling fur prices threaten to undo the trappers, hot-blooded Jack Pike and Skins McConnell head for...

RANDY AND ROUGH, HE'S A MEAN MOUNTAIN MAN WITH A NOSE FOR TROUBLE AND HANKERIN’ FOR HOT BEAVER!After a spell of setting traps and livin' off the rough mountain country, Jack Pike got hungry for the fleshpots most men call home. Meetin' up with his trail pard Skins McConnell, Pike aimed to sample himself something warm and willin' at the local post when he ran into trouble.Father Smets and his missionaries were on the trail of a lost band of their compadres when their guides...

"JUST TRACKER, MA'AM"It took just one hard-drinking, high-rolling poker game to make Tracker the owner of one of the fanciest hotels in San Francisco. With his buddy Duke Farrell, one of the West's slickest con men, Tracker took off to see his new merchandise.Tracker barely had time to get used to San Francisco's city ways before he was caught up in a boxing match, a couple of gunfights, too many fistfights, and more pretty women then even he could keep track of.But...

TRACKER’S SEARCH FOR A MISSING GIRL DRIVES HIM DEEP INTO THE HEART OF SAN FRANCISCO’S WHITE SLAVE TRADE!"JUST FIND MY DAUGHTER!!... AND/OR HER DIAMOND RING!"Tracker's line of work didn't usually include finding missing persons, but this one had a 25,000 ring on her finger. So for half the price of the ring and the gratitude of a powerful San Francisco politico... he'd just give it a try.His womanhunt takes him down to the teeming streets of Chinatown's waterfront in...

WITH A VENGEANCELiz Archer had an ache inside after the Nolan clan slaughtered her fiance and family. An ache only revenge could heal. She got help from Tate Gilmore who taught her how to shoot like a man and make love like a woman. He called her Angel Eyes because those huge baby blues would be the last thing the Nolans would ever see before she blew them all the way to hell!

Liz Archer—defying her nickname—is a devil of a shot.La Isla Bonita, a Mexican town of only women. Montalva, a ruthless bandit leader who wants to set up his revolutionary headquarters in that town.Liz Archer, aka "Angel Eyes," and Tate Gilmore, who share a contract to protect La Isla Bonita, as well as the same marksman skills, drives and bed.Add these up and throw in a few gunmen (who are happy to give the Bonita women training and a good dose of loving) and you'v...

ROCK HARD AND MOUNTAIN MEAN, THEY DON’T COME ANY TOUGHER THAN... MOUNTAIN JACK PIKE.RANDY AND ROUGH, HE’S A MEAN MOUNTAIN MAN WITH A NOSE FOR TROUBLE AND HANKERIN' FOR HOT BEAVER!With the big thaw spreading through Gallatin Fork, Montana, Jack Pike and his pard Skins McConnell aim to take their winter cache of new fur to post. But along the trail, they meet up with Joe Gall and his ragtail camp of green horn trappers, starvin' to death and under attack by a savage war party...