Detective and mystery stories. Played out in the worlds of gambling, publishing and the film industry, Merlyn and his brother Artie obey their own code of honour in the ferment of contemporary America, where law and organized crime are one and the same. Follow the action from New York to Las Vegas.
“I promise you—she's good at what she does.” “She doesn't seem to want gang work.” “She does. She's just...like that.” He gestured toward the door helplessly. “She's wanted to do something like this for months. I'm finally giving in.
His talent for writing saves Merlyn from a life behind bars, and opens the doors of New York and Hollywood to the young man.
But fate cannot so easily be defied. Praise for Robin Hobb and Fool’s Fate “[Robin] Hobb’s rich, vibrant and unique world [is] filled with sentient ships, magical beasts, and fascinating characters. . .
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Mario Puzo won international acclaim for The Godfather and his other Mafia novels.
"About the best of the series... perhaps since the very first." — Raymond Chandler Private investigators Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, stars of five of Hard Case Crime’s most popular novels, return to solve their toughest case yet.
Bella Rossi may be nearing thirty, but her life is just starting to get interesting.
Henry Lightcap, a man facing a terminal illness, sets out on a trip across America accompanied only by his dog, Solstice, and discovers the beauty and majesty of the Southwest
Follows one family of Italian immigrants who settle in New York in the late 1920s through World War II, a family dominated by a defiant matriarch who struggles to raise six children and preserve Old World values in a new land.
In fact, the Philadelphia Inquirer says Bandits “may well be his best.” Read it and decide for yourself. Bandits assembles an unlikely crew: an ex-nun, an ex-cop, and an ex-con.