In 1942, Pearl Harbor has been bombed and the war is very much in evidence, but it would seem to have little to do with Frank Boyle, a respected Bronx born insurance investigator. He's a man who can keep secrets, and no one suspects that his boyhood friend—local mob boss Nicky Brooks—is his lover. When Brooks accidentally kills Frank's younger brother in a shootout, Frank must choose between his affair with Nicky and revenge for his brother's life.After Frank betrays Nicky, police ...

In the frigid winter of 1891, with the nation still reeling from the Barings bank crisis, Inspector Philemon Raft returns from an involuntary sabbatical, tasked with solving the kidnapping of highly placed peer Miriam Dewberry. Thrust into a sordid underworld where the upper classes indulge in disreputable overseas investments designed to fatten their pocketbooks, Raft finds himself at loose ends without his companion, Constable Freddie Crook. Far from offering their help, the ton use ever...

When Feldwebel Horst Stussel is murdered in Jake Plenty's Moroccan brothel, local police chief Nicolas Renard suspects Jake's involvement in the crime. Renard has loved Jake since their service in the Legion Etrangère during the Great War, but in this era of concentration camps, gas chambers, and the infamous pink triangle, his love for the American dare not speak its name.When sadistic Nazi officer Major Danzig, a fanatic who excels at the arts of torture and interrogation, comes ...

Heartache Café: Books One and TwoThe Second World War touches Newfoundland in unprecedented ways, throwing spies and patriots together inside Jack Stolyes's Heartache Café.Heartache CaféAmerican expatriate Jack Stoyles embarks on a self-imposed exile to St. John's, Newfoundland. With good reason, Jack calls his place "Heartache Café." He's content—until Samual Halim walks into his life.When a constable goes missing, Jack fi...

Jacob van Willingen arrives in a remote Romanian village aiming for a short visit. A member of the highly secretive Society for Psychical Research, Jacob has been charged with exterminating Caleb Donnithorn--but the society's intelligence about the reclusive nobleman is less than complete. As he studies his target, Van Willingen is drawn to Donnithorn, enthralled with the nobleman's alluring brides, three of society's most luminous geniuses gathered from the corners of Europe to create a f...

A Kildevil Cove Murder MysteryThey say trouble comes in threes. Detective Danny Quirke is already mourning his wife and mired in an internal investigation that will likely spell the end of his career. Now he must return to the Newfoundland fishing village of his youth to bury his abusive grandfather. At least his three are up. Right?Then the bones of local boy Llewellyn Single, drowned thirty years before, wash up on the beach, and secrets Danny th...

A Kildevil Cove Murder MysteryThey say it never rains but it pours. Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Inspector Danny Quirke would have to agree.First someone murders a vulnerable Kildevil Cove man and dumps him in an abandoned well. Then the body of a sex-trafficking victim washes up on a nearby beach. Danny has to get to the bottom of both deaths, but with few leads and little support from his superiors, he's spinning his wheels in a mud pit of a c...

They say you shouldn't meet trouble halfway, but Inspector Danny Quirke never has to worry about that. Trouble always finds him.When a house fire rocks his small town of Kildevil Cove, Danny's inquiries into the house's mysterious inhabitants prompt the dispatch of Inspecteur Blaise Pascal from Quebec.Pascal arrives in perpetual ill humor, but he's an expert on this particular family. If anyone can determine whether this is a missing persons case or something more sinister, i...

There's trouble brewing in the cold waters of Kildevil Cove, and this time Danny Quirke may be hard put to stop it.Due to his suspected association with his former boss's human trafficking organization, Danny has been demoted and is no longer in charge. To make matters worse, he's broken up with his partner, Tadhg... who may be in serious hot water himself. But then a faceless killer begins targeting Kildevil Cove's most vulnerable, and Danny can't refuse when his new boss asks him ...

When former Indiana farm boy William Henry Rider goes on a bank robbing spree in Benedict Fouts's corner of Depression Era Illinois, it's up to Ben to bring him in. But Rider is no ordinary criminal. Famed for robberies that happen in the blink of an eye, Rider becomes a folk hero who steals from the rich and burns the mortgage papers of poor farmers teetering on the edge of financial ruin.Intrigued to learn that Fouts has been assigned to his case, Rider approaches him in a darken...

Veteran police chief Eli Gallagher doesn't ask for much, but he does insist that his officers uphold the "serve" part of "serve and protect." Conscientious young Deputy Stan Leach takes Eli's motto to heart, maintaining a high standard of personal accountability.When Eli's long-distance boyfriend, Gilbert Nees, telephones from Philadelphia, Eli thinks he intends to further cement their relationship. Unfortunately, Gilbert's news is anything but good. But Eli doesn't have time to wa...

South Carolina lawyer Calvin Amos is confident he can gain Thomas Basinger his freedom on appeal. Thom was convicted of a murder during an armed robbery gone bad. But Basinger's case proves more difficult than Cal anticipated, and the battle he assumed he'd win turns into a devastating failure. Remorseful over the personal defeat, after Basinger is executed, Cal throws himself out of his office window.Bizarrely, the fall doesn't kill him. Even stranger, Thom Basinger rings Cal's do...