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The Finalist for the Derringer Award for Best Novelete!
EX-CON JIMMY CONWAY DOESN'T DO THINGS THE WRONG WAY. HE DOES THEM THE CONWAY!
Meet Jimmy Conway, part-time crook, part-time con man, part-time Daddy's boy, full-time loser. But when his old man kicks the bucket and leaves the family jewelry store to him, Jimmy's sister and her greedy "round-fat" husband have a fit.
Now, with Jimmy in the care of the family's crown jewels so to speak, his immediate...
2) The Remains
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"Editor's Pick!"WHEN THE SECRET TO YOUR LIFE OR DEATH IS BURIED INSIDE A PAINTING...It's been thirty years since the terrifying abduction of twin sisters Rebecca and Molly Underhill by a deranged man who lived in a cabin behind their house in upstate New York. Fearful of retribution against their family, the girls kept the incident secret. Rebecca, now a painter and art teacher, and alone since Molly died of cancer, suddenly begins getting strange...
3) Godchild
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He wanted justice, truth, revenge... whichever came first. Prison-warden-turned-P.I. Jack "Keeper" Marconi understands the criminal mind. And he knows what it takes to break a man. His own life came apart the day a black Buick broadsided his car--and his wife died horrifically in the seat beside him. Years later, on the eve of his second marriage, Marconi catches a split-second glimpse of the driver who killed his wife. Suddenly hurtled back into...
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LOVE STINKS! BUT LOVE CAN ALSO KILL!When Moonlight and his sort of loyal sidekick, 1977 Fat Elvis, come upon a pretty young lady while fishing off of Moonlight's riverside deck, Elvis decides to serenade her with a song and dance. But when he trips and falls into the river it quickly becomes apparent the Faux King can't swim. That sets in motion a rescue by both Moonlight and the girl that will end up landing the head-case PI and Fat Elvis in hot...
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THINK TWICE ABOUT WHO YOU DO NOT MURDER!From a hospital bed, a middle-aged woman recalls taking back her mystery writer husband after twelve years of divorce and how all went swimmingly well. At first, anyway. But soon she began to feel empty inside and her unhappiness led to her cheating on him like she did the first time they were together. Only this time, she and the man she's sleeping with have big plans for the writer. They want the mystery man...
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WILL THE GRAVE SINS FROM YOUR PAST HAUNT YOU TO DEATH?Can you ever really bury the past?On a cold November evening back in 1982, real estate lawyer, Marty Finnegan and socialite, Tracy Reynolds, argued bitterly outside the dining room of the Wolforts Roost Country Club. Unbeknownst to them, three drunken teenage boys who attend the same prep school were witnessing their bitter exchange under the cover of darkness. When the boys decide to head out...
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THERE IS NO MORE DANGEROUS SITUATION FOR A COP THAN A DOMESTIC DISPUTE!When a dispirited Albany Police Detective is called upon to answer a violent domestic dispute complaint going down in the projects, he's made to team up not with a fellow cop, but instead a young, female social worker. Insisting that guns are not required when it comes to domestic disputes but instead, understanding and talk, the detective warns the idealistic social worker that...
8) The Plumber
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It's no secret we need water to survive. But what if the water that's coming from your sink can kill you on the spot?When two men from very different Albany neighborhoods die identical gruesome deaths from drinking their own tap water, the APD become entirely baffled. They're also worried that they're about to have a public panic on their hands. Therefore, they call in PI Steve Jobz to handle the deadly situation, under the radar, and as fast as he...
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Romance...Mystery...Adventure...Renaissance Man and Adventurer Chase Baker rarely visits home in upstate NY. But when his late dad's resting place is about to be interred to make way for a new road, he volunteers to operate the backhoe. It's the least he can do for a father who was always there to help Chase, the young man. But what he doesn't expect is a job offer by the local Albany Police Department to look into a missing elderly couple. Maybe...
10) Autonomous
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN AUTONOMOUSLY CONTROLLED VEHICLE KIDNAPS BOTH DRIVER AND PASSENGER FOR A HIGH SPEED RIDE THAT CAN LEAD TO THEIR DESTRUCTION?!All his life, sci-fi writer, Kenny Donovan hated cars. Turns out he had a phobia about riding in cars.But when his wife suggests they purchase a new autonomously powered Mercedes-Benz, Kenny reluctantly agrees. But when the car's AI controlled driving system hijacks them both, he quickly realizes what a mistake...
11) After Life
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AFTER YOU DIE, YOU WILL BE MORE ALIVE IN THE METAVERSE THAN YOU WERE ON EARTH!
The year is 2054. Writer Casey Smith is dead. He died when his car crashed into the back of a semi just moments after running over an innocent person who got in his way immediately after he robbed a bank.
But now, instead of going to heaven or hell, Casey finds himself alive again in the Metaverse. He also finds himself still on the run from the police for the crimes...
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It's One Thing Going Back in Time and Coming Face to Face with Jesus Christ. But it's Another to Be Crucified Along Side of HimWhen Casey Smith opens his eyes, he expects to be dead. Instead, he finds himself trapped in a prison cell in Jerusalem on Passover in AD 31. Outside his cell, riots are festering. A man who calls himself Jesus of Nazareth is about to be crucified by Pontious Pilot. Or, they can release Jesus and crucify Casey instead.From...
13) The Killer
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Dear God, Forgive Me, for I am About to Kill Again!When a hired assassin and ex-priest, is asked to kill the wife of his Russian gangster boss, he swears this will be his final job. Not only is he sick and tired of all the killing, but he's never before killed a woman. But what the killer doesn't realize is that his boss has something nefarious in store for him.A trap is being set that will get the assassin killed at worst or put in prison at best....
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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. ESEPCIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THE END OF THE WORLD!Inspired by the Twilight Zone, this story is about a writer, Lynn Meredith, who just wants to be left alone. That said, he moves to a remote mountaintop in far upstate New York. When a war breaks out between Russian and NATO, and nuclear war seems a certainty, the writer is almost giddy about it. Until the nuclear war actually happens and Meredith truly finds himself all...
15) Bingo Night
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DON'T MESS WITH BINGO NIGHT!!!!When two losers working for a floral supply outfit get it into their heads that they can rob the creepy old home for the elderly which is located directly across the street from their place of employment on Bingo Night, it sounds like an easy score. Too easy. Because what they don't realize is that just because people are old, doesn't mean they still don't have some fight left in them. In fact, in the case of Bingo Night,...
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"SOMETIMES BEING BEHIND BARS IS BETTER THAN BREAKING OUT!"When two murderous cop killing cons doing life sentences at New York's Dannemora Maximum Security Prison decide to make dramatic, almost Hollywood style prison break, Jack Marconi, a private investigator and former prison warden, is called in to locate the two killers.But during the course of their investigation in Upstate New York's thick woodlands, what Marconi and his trusted sidekick, Blood,...
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The ITW International Thriller Award & PWA Shamus Award Winning Dick Moonlight PI Series!
And...One of Suspense Magazine's Best Books of 2014! Hopeless romantic PI Dick Moonlight goes on the trail of a rabble rousing bestselling author and ends up neck deep in a whole lot of life, death, and love trouble... Renaissance Man, Chase Baker, is hired to search for an archaeology professor who's flown the coop to volatile post-revolutionary Egypt, but...
18) Moonlight Mafia
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WHEN A USED CAR SALESMAN CONNECTED TO THE MOB OFFERS DICK MOONLIGHT AN OFFER HE CAN'T REFUSE, THE PI WITH A PIECE OF BULLET IN HIS BRAIN WONDERS IF HE'LL LIVE TO SEE ANOTHER DAY!In this novelette, the too often unemployed private detective is hired by an anonymous client ('John Smith') to bring down a Mafia wise guy who's using a used car lot as a front for illegal gambling activity. At least, that's what Moonlight is led to believe. According to...
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Travel to Mars is Becoming a Reality! But there are Dangerous Alien Creatures Who Will Kill Us if We Try!
When Casey Smith wakes up from the dead, he finds himself aboard a spacecraft that's bound for Mars. This new metaverse play has him cast in the role of the Security Officer. Soon he finds himself battling an evil force that's a cross between The Thing and the Alien. A nail biter of a serial thriller by New York Times bestselling Thriller Award...
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HOW DO ALL NIGHTMARES BEGIN? BY SOMETHING THAT GOES BUMP IN THE NIGHT!It's the restless summer of 2020...When a gang of ruthless black clad thugs systematically terrorize a suburban neighborhood, a wife and husband team decide to take the law in their own hands and fight back.Two thugs in particular will wish they never broke into a home with the intention to destroy it and terrify its occupants.From New York Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus...