When a teenager disappears from an elite boarding school, local police throw the seemingly innocuous case to their neighborhood PI. Enter Jack Dixon: college dropout, ex-cop, and ex-cook. What should be a simple case quickly turns sour, pushing Jack into the path of Nordic biker cultists and vicious drug dealers. But the houseboat-dwelling PI is determined to find the truth—and the missing kid—even though his persistence leads him into a thorny tangle of drugs and violence that could rip h...

Jack accompanies the self-styled "U.S. Grant"—an old college buddy—and his regional wrestling promotion on their fall tour in hopes of sniffing out the mystery and escaping his troubled past...and to avoid any more harrowing run-ins with the deadly Aesir gang. Struggling with a budding romance, the specter of his college-era mistakes, and the undercurrents of a fanatic pro wrestling fandom, some of whom may just be willing to kill, Jack soon finds himself dragged into the limelight—and squ...

A Recommended Reading List Pick for Locus and a Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Editors' Pick for AmazonA Reactor Magazine Best of the Year Pick**"Omigosh! I've just found an author to put on my list of I've got to read everything they ever wrote! The Warden is a gem of the first order. Aelis is my hero."****—****Glen Cook, author of The Black CompanyFor fans who have always wanted their

**"Omigosh! I've just found an author to put on my list of I've got to read everything they ever wrote! The Warden is a gem of the first order. Aelis is my hero."****—**Glen Cook, author of The Black Company"These books are addictive and I can’t wait to see what Aelis and the gang get up to next.”—C.L. Clark, author of The UnbrokenWineshops on every corner.Assassins in ever...

"These books are addictive and I can’t wait to see what Aelis and the gang get up to next.”—C. L. Clark, author of The UnbrokenHundreds of skeletons.One Necromancer.No wine in sight.Aelis de Lenti, Lone Pine's newly assigned Warden, is in deep trouble. She has just opened the crypts of Mahlgren, releasing an army of the undead into the unprotected backwoods of Ystain.To protec...