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|  | | Betray Me Not
This collection of 17 stories feature women and girls from all walks of life who seek revenge against enemies, whether ex-husbands, former lovers, or colleagues.
span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Revenge. Everyone wants it. Few will attempt it. Even fewer on the scale of the women and girls in this collection of tales that run the gamut from grisly through calculated to justifiable—at least, in their minds. Their reasons are as varied as the perpetrators themselves. You’re bound to have met one or two like them. Take the troubled teenager in “Jedda Summons a Higher Power,” tormented by high-school bullies. Or the Manhattan socialite with a penchant for scamming gullible males in “Paying P | |  | | Burning Girl
Det. Riisa Jones of the Gallion, Rhode Island PD has a tough case on her hands for her first outing as lead investigator: someone reports the body of a girl on fire in a dumpster behind a local tavern.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Detective Riisa Jones is a new detective with her first case as lead investigator for the Gallion, Rhode Island P.D. It’s a bad one: the body of a young woman has been set ablaze in a dumpster behind a local tavern, well known to the cops. Some of her colleagues, including her own partner “Kaz,” a veteran cop nearing retirement, wouldn’t mind seeing her fail. Riisa’s first obstacle is identifying the body. Before long, she’s neck-deep in | |  | | Dangerous Women: Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Mayhem
12 stories, 12 women you do not want to take home to meet mother.
These 12 stories feature women who must have missed the memo saying girls should grow up playing with Barbie dolls and inviting friends to backyard tea parties. Some, like the twins of “The Birthmark,” are sweet—and cunning as Norwegian rats, a truth the boyfriend of one learns too late. “The Gypsy Girl from Bluefield” went to the school of hard knocks, became a lap dancer, and then took her sugar daddy for a long ride—all the way to Rio. Sandy LaFramboise of “Finding Sandy Biggers” thought she could outwit a profession | |  | | Danse Macabre in New Orleans
Two friends in Cincinnati expose an art-theft ring in New Orleans and find themselves on the run from alligators in bayous and bad guys everywhere they turn.
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EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Karissa Scott is a thirty-year-old woman, flamboyant in dress and attitude toward life, but she’s in crisis. Her career in a downtown Cincinnati art gallery is going nowhere. She convinces her friend J.J., a chess prodi | |  | | Dead Cat Bounce
Butchie Parmenter, a Brockton, Mass. housing inspector, discovers a shoebox filled with cash in a house he's about to condemn. It doesn't take long for Butchie to discover he's got partners--some of whom don't mind if he doesn't live long enough to cash in his share.
span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Old Mrs Bello lived above the family grocery store all her life, she worked hard, was frugal and lived an ordinary life. There was one thing that people knew about Mrs B though | |  | | Doggerel for Dead Whores
In this latest Thomas Haftmann outing, the Northeastern private eye encounters the work of a serial killer who dumps his victims, all Cleveland prostitutes, in a rural county in Ohio.
span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Seventeen women had turned up as "dead bodies found." Fifteen in vacant lots on the Clevealnd East Side. All but two were black females between fourteen and forty-one. More | |  | | Easy Money
Wade gets fired from his job in a salvage yard. A moment of anger sends him running from the law--and straight into danger.
span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Wade Cardell is in big trouble. Just minutes after he has been fired from his job at a salvage yard in Northtown, Ohio, he gets into an argument with the boss’s nephew on his way out the door that results in the man’s death. Now he’s a wanted felon and the only one he can call to rescue him so he can get back /span>span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> /span>span style="font-family: "Times Ne | |  | | Fade to Black
Noir Stories of Grifters, Drifters, & Unlovable Losers
Homicide cops talk about the “unholy trinity” behind most murders: greed, lust, revenge. In White’s collection of 22 noir tales you have all three motives on display, sometimes all three working in combination with one another. Take “Gone Fishing,” for example. A man cheats on his best friend with the man’s wife. That man wants to take him fishing in rough weather in a small boat on open water. There’s more than catching yellow perch behind the invitation. Scott Suddeth stops at a roadside greasy spoon in “Marigold’s Diner” w | |  | | Full-Tilt Boogie
In this prequel to "Perfect Killer" (2018), Special Agent Jade Hui discovers from a prison informant than a shipment of a new, deadly drug is being imported to Youngstown, Ohio.
span style="color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Something’s going on in Youngstown, Ohio—and it isn’t pretty. Newly assigned to the field office, Special Agent Jade Hui is stumped by her predecessor’s do-nothing record when there’s every indication something big is going to happen. An Aryan Brotherhood convict tells her a new designer drug from Europe is about to hit the streets of the Midwest and Youngstown will be the launching pad. Next, a female prizefighter winds up dead in a dumpster behind | |  | | Haftmann's Rules
Thomas Haftmann, private eye, is in way over his head; a simple hunt for a wealthy man's runaway daughter has turned into a nightmare of violence. Now he's the object of the hunt.
div>Thomas Haftmann is almost broke--again. He's tired of adultery cases & hunting down rich parents' kids for a living. This time seems no different. At least, he thinks so when a wealthy local businessman contacts him about tracking down his runaway daughter./div>
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div>Haftmann traces her to Boston, rubs a Boston cop the wrong way, gets knocked on the head, but like that blind squirrel who manages to find a nut, he finds the right clues to follow and they lead him to the missing girl. That, however, changes everything for the worse--and it's muc | |  | | Haftmann's Rules
Private investigator Thomas Haftmann takes on a desperate father's case that begins with a search for a missing daughter and finds him in the midst of a conspiracy of racists and one very dangerous killer hiding in their midst.
Ohio private investigator Thomas Haftmann is walking into big trouble the day a grieving father shows up in his office and begs him to find his missing daughter. Haftmann soon discovers a sordid trail that winds through Boston's notorious Combat Zone of vice, drugs, and prostitution.
Haftmann doesn't know which way to turn as violence in the form of racists cults, crooked cops, and thugs comes at him from all directions.
One thing he knows for sure: a dapper, smooth-talking FBI agent is using him as a stalking horse to lure a serial kil | |  | | Jersey Girl
"Jersey Girl" is Raina Burke, a woman obsessed and fueled by hatred and revenge, will track her prey from California to the American Midwest.
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span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Raina Burke is a tough woman managing a server farm for a company in Nigeria. When her supervisor orders her back to Silicon Valley, he insists she bring her security team, two violent mercenaries. Raina realizes she’s going to be sacrificed in the scandal brewing over missing and dead workers. But Raina’s time in Africa has transformed her. She identifies with the Yoruban goddess of storms and | |  | | Make Mine Horror: Tales of Madness and Revenge
A collection of 23 stories of psychological, gothic, and supernatural horror.
span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">“The Tick Bite” takes a retired, middle-class couple’s life and upends it completely, whereas the three friends on a fishing trip in “Wolf Lodge” discover their retreat comes with benefits—only not for them./span>
p class="MsoNormal">span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Haunted houses galore: “The Mansion Dwellers” and “The Coal Manager’s House” mix a little humor with a lot of horror. The same might be said for “A House with Good Bones” and &l | |  | | Nocturne for Madness
Here we encounter the controlled madness of two men, one a former cop, the other a misfit and killer of women.
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font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> is about the controlled madness of two men, one a former cop, the other a killer of women. Ohio private investigator Thomas Haftmann is hounded by his twin demons of gambling and drinking when he is thrust into a statewide manhunt for the serial killer sensationalized in the tabloid press | |  | | Northtown Angelus
Ray Jarvi's third outing as Northtown's private investigator
span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Johnny Dillon took his life. His wife Cora wants to know why. The Northtown cops don’t care; they closed the case as a suicide. The M.E. hasn’t got any answers for the discrepancies Ray Jarvi discovered in the autopsy report and from what Johnny’s wife told him about the days leading up to his decision to take his life./span>
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"Times New Roman",serif">This is the beginning of an investigati | |  | | Northtown Blitz
Raimo Jarvi, small-town private investigator, takes a case involving political corruption and murder.
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span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Bella Cinciarelli was the eldest of three of sisters, all of them famous as high school beaut | |  | | Northtown Eclipse
The brutal summer heat seems to have everyone in Northtown, Ohio on edge.
A high-school reunion is the catalyst for long-held grudges to bubble up to the surface but quickly becomes a sideshow as private detective Raimo Jarvi is drawn into a murderous rampage that extends far beyond his usual remit of unfaithful wives and petty personal disputes.
The total eclipse is coming to Northtown, a small port town on Lake Erie. Raimo "Ray" Jarvi and his brother Rick grew up here. Rick, a football star in high school, never found again the glory he once enjoyed and moved to California, whereas his brother Ray stayed behind. Owing to a fire that scarred his face when he was a boy, Ray lives a reclusive life until he decides to break out and do something with hsi life. Becoming a private investigator sounded like a good idea, but soon Ray discovers threre's little to do or solve being a small-town gumshoe.
Then Ric | |  | | One Fat Thief: Annie Cheng Investigates
A seedy academic, who steals valuable books from special collections, attracts the attention of Russian killers.
span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: super;">Tough, linguistically gifted Annie Cheng has just turned 40 and her life and career are going downhill fast./span>span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: super;"> /span>span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: super;">Her husband wants a divorce./span>span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: super;"> /span> | |  | | Out of Breath and Other Stories
A baker's dozen of stories set in the Midwest (with some flash fiction extras) that are based on characters in a moment of crisis.
| |  | | Perfect Killer
A Chinese-American FBI agent whose career is stalled and whose life is beset by personal problems has the only real chance to bring a serial killer crisscrossing the country for his victims to justice.
span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Jade Hui is an FBI agent on the way down—until, that is, her supervising agent assigns her a triple-murder investigation. She soon must overcome bureaucratic obstacles to | |  | | Saraband for a Runaway
Tom Haftmann gets more than he bargained for when he goes after a teenaged Florida runaway--namely, killers and one hungry alligator.
Thomas Haftmann, Northern Ohio private eye, is not looking forward to yet another brutal ohio winter, so when a distraught father asks him to find his daughter, he accepts. He's looking forward to a little time in the sunshine state on a case that doesn't appear to be too difficult. However, he's not there long enough to get a sunburn before he's beaten up, threatened, and hounded by two large goons working for a secretive Florida millionaire who has the girl and doesn't intend to let her go. | |  | | Saraband for a Runaway
Series private eye Thomas Haftmann takes on a case of a missing girl, a runaway to Florida.
| |  | | Special Collections
A woman FBI agent tracks a book thief who targets special collections and rare manuscripts across the Midwest. The thief, an aging former academic, is "managed" by two dangerous Russian thugs.
Tough, linguistically gifted Annie Cheng has just turned 40 and her life and career are going downhill fast. Her husband wants a divorce. Her latest partner wants a transfer, and her bosses at the FBI headquarters in Manhattan have grown weary of her. Despite solving cases in Brighton Beach (nexus of Russian mafiya), she’s been posted to Cleveland, Ohio, and given a low-level case—or so she thinks at first. Someone has been stealing priceless books and illustrations from rare book collections in public and university libraries all across the Midwest. With millions of dollars of the world’s | |  | | The Dearborn Terrorist Plot
In this prequel to the Haftmann, p.i. series, a young, restless Tom Haftmann is working in his uncle's private investigation office, but he's bored stiff--until the unimaginable happens.
span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">How does a 27-year-old, restless bachelor trying to make it as a private eye intersect with a /span>span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;"> /span>span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">social misfit, who happens to be a Great Lakes sailor, with serious anger management problems? That is the subject of an unreleased FBI report about an attempted terrorist act aboard | |  | | The Dearborn Terrorist Plot
A young Tom Haftmann is looking for a career while working as a glorified clerk in his uncle's private-investigation office. He won't be bored for long.
span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">How does a 27-year-old, restless bachelor trying to make it as a private eye intersect with a /span>span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;"> /span>span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">social misfit, who happens to be a Great Lakes sailor, with serious anger management problems? That is the subject of an unreleased FBI report about an attempted terrorist act aboard | |  | | The Ghost in the Tunnel
This collection includes some of the common types of horror stories—namely, psychological, gothic, occult, splatter, supernatural, and vampire, but also a number of crime-horror tales.
span style="color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Murder being traditionally crime/noir’s domain, many of these horror tales poach on that territory based on the reasoning that, while murder is almost always attributed to sex, greed, or revenge (workplace violence has an obvious motive), few kinds of horror terrify as much as that random, motiveless murderer lurking among us. Even spree killers have reasons that make “sense” in their warped psyches. But to comprehend an amoral sadist operating out of a di | |  | | The Russian Heist
Millions of dollars are stolen from a county airport in rural Ohio. The thieves soon find themselves at the mercy of the biggest thief in their midst.
span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">A Russian mobster stumbles onto a plot to rob a county airport where millions in small denominations sit shrink-wrapped on pallets waiting for military transport planes to deliver the | |  | | Thomas Haftmann, Private Eye: The Short Stories
15 hardboiled stories featuring Robb White's series character: not for the faint of heart nor the cozy mystery lover
Ex-cop Thomas Haftmann, formerly of Cleveland Homicide, works as a private investigator in the resort town of Jefferson-on-the-Lake. You will follow his cases in these 15 short neo-noirs. Among them are “The Kneeling Woman,” “No Escape, No Turning Back,” “The Riding Boy,” “The Slave Master’s Dungeon,” “Archangel’s Daughter,” “A Woman With Tea-Colored Eyes,” and “The Dog Returneth to His Vomit.” These have been collected from a variety of outstanding publications and blog sites, ranging from | |  | | Waiting on a Bridge of Maggots
One man's personal tragedy brings him to a cliff's edge of realization when he succumbs to the forces of darkness.
Waiting for You on a Bridge of Maggots centers on a professional man in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a hardware store manager, whose family—wife, two children—are killed in a plane crash. Coming from the Midwest and a working-class background, he has found the American Dream in a stable life, good salary, “loving” wife and two healthy children. But this good, solid, respectable, middle-class life ends in the opening sentence of the novel. Unable to handle the shock—not just the death of his entire family but knowing his wife was unfaithful and his love for her | |  | | When You Run with Wolves
A bank heist in a small Northeastern Ohio town succeeds, but the perpetrators didn't count on one thing: the man coerced into helping the robbers out isn't turning over the money until his conditions are met.
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Killer With Three Heads
by James Hill
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 Killer With Three Heads is the second book in the Killer series. Bulletproof Morris ‘Mojo’ Johnson returns to New York as John Morrison after a 10 years’ absence to find the people responsible for kidnapping his daughter, Maria. |
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