Stephen J. Cannell

When it comes to creating unforgettable criminal characters, nobody does it better than Emmy Award winner Stephen J. Cannell, the force behind such acclaimed TV hits as "The Rockford Files," "The Commish," "Wiseguy," and "The A-Team." Now come Cannell's most engaging characters yet—a spirited assortment of clever con artists.King Con vs. The Don

Raised in a world of flimflams, come-ons and con-jobs, Beano Bates has done so well he's

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Lita Mendez was a thorn in the LAPD's side. An aggressive police critic and gang activist, she'd filed countless complaints against the department. So when she's found dead in her home, Detective Scully and his partner Hitchens fear the worst: that there's a killer in their ranks. Outside the crime scene, Nixon Nash and his television crew have set up shop. Nash is the charismatic host of a hit reality show called Vigilante TV, dedicated to beating...

A genius, hairless, seven-foot-tall psychopath, Leonard Land is many people wired into the cyber-subculture of Satanism and Death Metal. He is smart and cunning. He is quick, brutal and deadly. And he is everywhere. A renegade U.S. customs agent, a brilliant and beautiful forensic phychologist and a streetwise convict master hacker are on the trail of the maniac who is methodically slaughtering innocent women -- a hunt that is leading a trio of...

This Shane Scully Double Pack is two novels in one--Vertical Coffin plus The Tin Collectors, Stephen J. Cannell's first Shane Scully novel! A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau...

On the heels of Three Shirt Deal, a New York Times bestseller, comes an electrifying new thriller from Stephen J. Cannell in which Lt. Shane Scully is accused of evidence tampering and his wife, Alexa, discovers Shane's been having an affair with a beautiful movie star. Charged with felony misconduct in a high-profile solicitation of murder case, Lieutenant Scully is faced with an impossible decision: either quietly resign from his job as a detective...

Cannell delivers non-stop action and intrigue in the latest installment of his New York Times bestselling Shane Scully series… Shane Scully and his partner are assigned to the case of "the Fingertip Killer"-a serial murderer preying on homeless veterans in Los Angeles. Every two weeks he strikes: he beats his victims, then shoots them in the back of the head. Once they're dead, he cuts off their fingertips, closes their eyes, and tosses them in...

In the aftermath of his son's death, TV reporter Ryan Bolt agrees to film a documentary about a lesser-known presidential contender. The assignment could salvage his damaged life and career, but soon he uncovers the candidate' s mafia connections. Bolt doesn't know whom he truly serves, and by the time he finds out, it may already be too late- as the Mafia attempts to put a puppet leader in the White House. This political thriller...

Reno goes after Dixon, the man who is wanted for the murder of his partner, Woody Bickford, but his plans go awry when he is lured into a trap.

Reno pursues Enrique Vilas, a South American "death squad" fugitive.

After nearly dying, Reno is possessed by a spirit.