HEMINGWAY'S WAR
Hemingway says goodbye to his third wife at the Finca Vigia as she leaves
him to cover the war in Europe. She is giving up on the marriage because
of his drinking and philandering.
FICTION SERIES
EASTERN STAR TRILOGY
THE MYNAH'S CALL
Paula was
young, sensuous, beautiful--a woman of strong will and unbreakable spirit.
Restless and eager for adventure, she and her husband struck out for the
Middle East. She wanted a different life for the two of them: a renewed
love for her husband and a renewed sense of self.
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MISTRESS AND THE ROGUE This fascinating and frightening account of a young American woman and her Afghan-born lover takes on new and ominous overtones when Paula suddenly finds herself attacked in her American home by two Iraqi thugs. When she learns that Shadar has disappeared on his way back to her from Hong Kong, she sets out to find him. Along the way, she uncovers a sordid trail of human bondage, gun smuggling, and Al Qaeda terrorists. All nearly ends in a deadly fire-fight with Islamic terrorists. But what about Paula ... and where is Shadar?
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NIGHT AT THE OPERA A cozy night at the opera turns deadly as Paula and Shadar stand by helplessly. Their investigation into the death of Shadar's closest friend soon leads them to Kabul, where Shadar is charged with the task of helping to set up the underground Iraqi Resistance Movement to ferret out and destroy opponents of Coalition Forces and the newly elected Iraqi Free Parliament.
CARLOTTA TRILOGY
DIAL M FOR CARLOTTA When Dean Janus stumbles across an Internet promotion for a professional Domme, his curiosity is piqued. By the time he decides to check it out, he is already ensnared in an ever-widening web of drugs, money laundering, BDSM, and murder. Only the tenacious love of a woman nearly ten years younger can save him. But is that love strong enough to go head-to-head with Mistress Carlotta? And can Dean overcome the prejudice he has against his young, headstrong lover? His very life may depend on it!
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BOUND FOR CARLOTTA When Dean Janus stumbles across an Internet promotion for a professional Domme, his curiosity is piqued. By the time he decides to check it out, he is already ensnared in an ever-widening web of drugs, money laundering, BDSM, and murder. Only the tenacious love of a woman nearly ten years younger can save him. But is that love strong enough to go head-to-head with the cold cruel Mistress Carlotta? And can Dean overcome the prejudice he has against his young, headstrong lover? His very life may depend on it!
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CARLOTTA'S REVENGE When Domme Mistress Carlotta escapes from prison, Dean Janus bears the brunt of her revenge. Taken into bondage to a small adobe outside Ensenada, he is broken of his will and forced to do her bidding. He returns to the states, drugs and kidnaps his own fiance, and returns with her to Carlotta's adobe, where she too is eventually turned into a devoted slave. But when M.C. introduces a young peasant girl to become Lynn's charge, Dean turns the tables on the Domme and sets the stage for a supercharged ending.
HYMIE STIEHL QUARTET
CRAZY AS A LOON When Yiddish Bulldog Hymie Stiehl learns that his friend, center fielder Jungle Jim Rivera of the Chicago White Sox, has disappeared, he knows he has to act fast. Realizing that Rivera is still alive but in great danger, Stiehl and his young, rakish professor sidekick seek to locate him before the Mob does. But when bodies began dropping like flies at a bad delicatessen, Stiehl calls upon the local D.A. and the members of the venerable Twelfth Precinct to step in to help clear the water while Stiehl very nearly ends up a statistic, himself.
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STIEHL STALKINGS
A
Caribbean cruise goes sour when a wealthy German industrialist turns up
dead during an attempted robbery--murdered with his own hand gun. The plot
thickens when Yiddish Bulldog Hymie Stiehl learns that the man's stepson
had lost more than $20 thousand at the tables the night before. The man's
wife, too, stands to gain financially from her husband's death, although
she voluntarily takes a polygraph test and passes with ease.
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MURDER IN THE COURTS
As Hymie Stiehl and sidekick D. J. Tartanian arrive in Trinidad, Colorado,
to ensnare whoever sent Stiehl's close contractor friend to prison, Stiehl
has a revelation. "I'll set you up as a contractor!" But when the "kid"
gets charged with passing bad checks, contractor fraud, and finally
murder, things get ugly.
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MURDER BY DEFAULT Ronald Deus has an ax to grind. In fact, he has several. The sharpest is reserved for his beloved mother—the only person standing between Deus and a fortune in family stocks and bonds. But when he takes aim at committing the perfect crime, little does he realize that it's he, himself, who is standing in his own crosshairs.
NICK AND NORA CAVENDER TRILOGY
BACKSIDE BLUES Meet Nick Cavender, grandson of the famed detective, Nick Charles, The Thin Man. When Nick and Nora set out to invest in a racehorse destined for the Kentucky Derby and the horse's jockey turns up dead—and his jockey friend, and the track steward—they know they're in it but good. The two break into the dead jockey's home only to become the prime suspects in his murder. After narrowly escaping apprehension by the police, social stigmatization by the neighborhood busybody, and a crime-family whacking, Nicky unveils the most preposterous conclusion Nora has ever heard while she prepares for the crime of their lives.
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CHAMELEON When Nora's Chicago Daily Tribune editor sends her to the U.K. to cover the Irish Darby, she soon learns that derby day is not without its inherent risks. Within hours of landing, she finds herself the target of a mysterious stalker. Nick lays plans and apprehends the stalker, who turns out to be anything but! When Nora disappears, Nicky faces a blank slate for the first time in his life--why was she kidnapped? Is she unharmed? Where is she being held? What clues can their new Welsh Corgi puppy provide? And are the locals right when they claim that only the Irish moors hold the answer ... and the answer is death!
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STAKEOUT When one-time private eye Nicky Cavender and his reporter wife Nora take a busman's holiday skiing in Banff National Park, they soon find themselves searching for a missing Canadian heiress ... and her jewelry ... and her hotel room suite! All vanished into thin air. As hotel officials struggle to learn what happened to room 432, Nicky devises an ingenious plan for a reverse stakeout of the grottos outside Banff's hot springs to uncork the truth. But before long, he discovers it is he who is being stalked in one of the most creative story lines ever.
FICTION SINGLE TITLES
HEMINGWAY'S WAR
Hemingway says goodbye to his third wife at the Finca Vigia as she leaves
him to cover the war in Europe. She is giving up on the marriage because
of his drinking and philandering.
RABIT ON THE RUN
When
David Lord Rabit decides to make a change in his life, it's bound to be a
beauty. And not particularly well grounded in reality.
REUNITED IN MURDER
When Mark's father, who had abandoned the family upon his son's birth,
learns of his ex-wife's death, he shows up with Mark's estranged sister on
the exotic isle of St. Lucia, masquerading as a stranger to help Mark find
the murderer. A former private investigator in California, the father soon
puts together a package of suspects that leaves Mark reeling.
SEASON OF DREAMS Denise finishes high school and flies down to Miami Beach for a break. When she fails to return, her mother suspects foul play. But for Denise, her play is anything but foul as she finds herself mistaken for a glamorous model and hobnobbing with Miami society. When she auditions for a bit part in a local movie financed by the mob and wakes up a week later with track marks on her arm and a guard outside her door, she knows she's not in Kansas anymore. Slowly she succumbs to indoctrination as a hooker who quickly becomes a top-earning call girl and, eventually, a Hollywood madam. Along the way, she learns that falling in love can be a dangerous pastime when your boyfriend just happens to be the connected murderer of your own sister.
THE DEVIL WITHIN When a man makes a pact with the devil, he does so not in exchange for untold wealth, health, love, or longevity, but in order to stimulate his mind (he loathes boredom and despises boring people). The devil agrees to grant him the intelligence to survive in a hostile world, and soon the man stands in the very shadow of God, presiding over decisions that spell life and death for virtually every human being on earth.
THE GARDENER'S LEFT HAND When young widowed socialite Mimi Fairbanks hires a mysterious stranger to take the place of her recently fired head gardener, she slowly uncovers a hauntingly inexplicable past. As bodies begin turning up all around the estate—bodies of young women, the same age as her own daughter--she is drawn more closely to the man's dark, and possibly even sinister, past.
THE MANN ACT AFFAIR
When Thomas Mann goes to the clinic complaining of inability to sleep, a
computerized analysis reveals that his neuro-receptors have apparently
picked up some illegal information, and his mind is having difficulty
coping with it. He can't process the information because it's
encoded and he doesn't have the code programmed into him. He will
have to undergo a brain sweep to erase his memory.
THE SECRET ARROYO As an Army scout, Wade Hawkins learned his job well—he is the best tracker west of the Missouri. It is a skill that comes in handy, for he'll need all of his wiles to overtake the murderous flesh-traders who abducted his Choctaw wife from their home several days before. As he closes in on her captors, he finds more than he bargained for: a troop of ruthless, bloodthirsty ex-rangers with plenty of fire power and 16 Indian women—captive squaws—on their hands. But was Tantien one of them?
THE UNFAMILIAR
In the
mountains of northern Colorado, a young couple live life to the fullest,
sharing their good fortune, drugs, and mates with their New Age friends.
Shortly after they erect a party tee-pee several hundred yards from their
log home, they take in a tenant who has just suffered a painful divorce.
When his golden retriever trots down through the woods to an all-night
Bachanalian tee-pee fest, Donnelly sets out to retrieve him. But his hosts
insist that he stay and join in the fun.
THREE DAYS OF THE COVENANT When an investigative reporter falls head-over-heels in love, it's a good thing. When the target of his affections is a classy/sassy blonde charged with protecting the world's most valuable book, it's a bad thing. Or, at least, it is if the reporter is determined to steal the book from under her nose.
NONFICTION SINGLE TITLES
BIG BANG BABY BOOMER ELECTRIC SHOCK SEX MACHINE Three of the world's greatest—and most unlikely—authors struggle for their inalienable right to write.
GHOSTS AT THE ROUNDTABLE: A TELLING ALLIANCE Dorothy Parker is the most unlikely of radicals. But the author who pens "Men seldom make passes / at girls who wear glasses" has much more on her mind than clever witticisms when she lobbies fellow Round Tablers to the defense of accused killers Sacco and Vanzetti. For more than six years, she carries the banner against America's paranoia and disgrace. In the end, it is Parker--and not two Italian-born anarchist immigrants--who pays the greatest price of all for her integrity.
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