Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he's a little slow and maybe boring, but that's the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou...
Nicki Pearl is the perfect daughter — every parent’s dream. And that of strangers, too. Wherever she goes, she’s being watched. Each stalker is different from the last, except for one thing — their alarming obsession with Nicki.
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What was the clue of the lipstick on the dead man’s mouth that started Jerry Burke on the tortuous murder trail through El Paso and Juarez?
The death maze draws together an American oil tycoon; a high official of the State Department; and two...
Twenty stories from the man who created the 87th Precinct. Stories of the street and the city, stories of the cops and their prey. Life in a Chinese lobster-shop, the making of a porn queen, and the agony of being jailed with a non-stop talking...
The Last Call is the first of six completed novels in The Bill Travis Mysteries.Bill Travis, an unmarried, unattached investment counselor rapidly approaching his fortieth birthday, conceives that he may not live the most exciting of lives, yet...
Did you ever want to murder your boss? Well — of all the bosses who should have been murdered Frank Sargent’s was the most deserving. A notorious publisher, Ben O. Chapman was the villain behind many shabby deals. But it was his partner who was...
There was the heat of money. There w as the heat of wanting. There was the heat of the Bahamas and Golden Coast of Florida after the season had ended. Texas money had gone to the Bahamas by pleasure boat for a dirty purpose. Enough unrecorded cash...