Brig Ellis is a new age private investigator with old school values. He gets a call from an old flame seeking protection for her artist husband. What Brig doesn't know, until he makes contact with the couple, is that the artist paints with the cremated ashes of human remains. While the painter's profile is rising, so too is the number of people less than thrilled with his work - and some of them are determined to stop him one way or another. Ellis...

A vicious newspaperman is murdered, and every scribe in the office is a suspect It is winter in London, and the coal is running short. The chill on Fleet Street is so severe that the men who run the presses for Youth's Companion are too cold to work. Despite the freeze, their editor-the vile Mr. Bassett-will not spare a shilling for coal. He is behind on paying his employees, has been accused of stealing his writers' ideas, and refuses to hire any...

Santa comes to town, but crossword editor Belle Graham and her PI husband, Rosco Polycrates, may find this holiday more naughty than nice  With Christmas approaching, Belle Graham and her husband, Rosco Polycrates, are getting into the holiday spirit. While Belle does her part creating a Noel crossword contest, Rosco dons red suit and snowy beard to collect toys for the town's annual children's drive. But his good will starts to dim when he and two...

Laura Mosby is like a lot of young women, working in a job she doesn't like, looking for a way out, and doing her best to enjoy her privacy. When she dies a violent death at the hands of an intruder, it's at first brushed off as a standard homicide. But when Lieutenant Santiago, the supervising detective, comes across evidence linking her death to a local politician, he begins to see the faint threads of a much nastier scheme. Desperate to shield...

A Santa Barbara PI falls in with one of California's most dangerous families Two years ago, Kate Blanchard and her partner failed to stop a tragedy. When a man killed his family and then himself, Kate didn't even fire a shot. Two years later, Kate is divorced, and trying to make it as a private detective.   Young, wealthy Laura Sparks hires Kate to look into the suspicious death of her lover, a marijuana smuggler who committed suicide in jail. As...

In Hunting Spirits, they take on the case of an old moneyed Garden District resident. Something supernatural is creeping around her grand nineteenth-century mansion, and she wants it gone. On the outside, she's the picture of respectability and decorum. Yet within those stately walls lurk generations of dark secrets. Charmaine and Jessi find themselves caught in twisted plots, betrayals, and murder. They'll need every ounce of their paranormal skills...

No one falls as viciously, as painfully or as messily, as lawyers. Jack Nicholas, left-wing barrister, was supposed to have died in an accident. Drunk, said the coroner. Murdered, said his mother. Enter Dave Woolf, ex-solicitor, boozer and down-at-heel private eye. Even before Woolf starts asking questions, he finds that he is investigating not one death, but the wholesale dispatch of Jack Nicholas' erstwhile colleagues. There is very little for Woolf...

It is the summer of 1946, the sinister, Gatsby-like millionaire Cary Morrison is found dead in his Chicago mansion, apparently the victim of a burglary gone hopelessly wrong. Soon after, the burglars themselves are found dead, one by one. Ray Foley, just returned from wartime service in Europe, finds himself embroiled. One of the dead burglars was Ray's boyhood friend Eddy Walsh, and Ray decides to involve himself in the search for the killer. At...

Football is back! For those of us who enjoy seeing twenty-two huge muscular men mash it up on a large field, this time of year is a welcome one. Especially for those of us whose baseball team has not fared as well as we had hoped, the prospect of football, where the agony of a loss comes usually only once a week, is a inspiring. MacFarland, alas, is not a football fan. Several years on the streets, with no access to television or even radio broadcasts,...

Drury Lane investigates a suspicious suicide and a family of mad Hatters A ramshackle trawler, the Lavinia D rumbles into New York harbor with empty nets. When its crew spies something floating in the water, they drag it in, hoping for a profitable catch. Their prize flops on the deck, limp, cold, and bloody: the corpse of a man. His name was York Hatter, and he had disappeared from his house on the fashionable Washington Square several days before....