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ken-kuhlken's picture
Apr.17.2009
THE VAGABOND VIRGINS, Baja California, 1979A Holy Virgin, or a convincing fraud, appears in Mexico, dedicating herself to the overthrow of the corrupt and tyrannical Partido Revolucionario Institutional. And a woman who claims to be the Virgin’s sister brings San Diego law student and private...
ken-kuhlken's picture
Apr.17.2009
THE DO-RE-MI, a Northern California folk festival, 1972Evergreen is a different town than the last time Clifford Hickey visited, only a year ago. Then it was an Eden, a garden of peace and delights, of music and lovely hippies sharing all they had. Now it's the site of a range war. Bikers have...
ken-kuhlken's picture
Apr.17.2009
THE DO-RE-MI, a Northern California folk festival, 1972Evergreen is a different town than the last time Clifford Hickey visited, only a year ago. Then it was an Eden, a garden of peace and delights, of music and lovely hippies sharing all they had. Now it's the site of a range war. Bikers have...
ken-kuhlken's picture
Apr.12.2009
The Loud Adios, San Diego, 1943 Private Investigator Tom Hickey, now an army corporal military assigned to the U.S./Mexico border, accompanies Private Clifford Rose to a Tijuana nightclub where Clifford claims they will find his sister Wendy. The nightclub is aptly named Hell. Wendy, dancing naked...
heywood-gould's picture
Sep.27.2008
To a hired killer a “double bang” means two hits for the price of one. This is a hard-edged novel about cops and killers, wise guys and not-so-straight straight-shooters. At the center of it all is Dr. Karen Winterman - a beautiful psychoanalyst who falls for a seductive psychopath, who just...
simon-wood's picture
Sep.09.2008
Criminals aren't the only ones with prices on their heads. Everyone is worth more dead than alive. Josh Michaels discovers that he's simply a dollar figure when his car is forced into the Sacramento River. The person who caused the accident doesn't help, but instead flashes him a "thumbs down...
simon-wood's picture
Sep.09.2008
Hayden Duke is a young man on the fast track. He's just signed on with Marin Design Engineering to work on a very high-level project. But before Hayden started, one of MDE's employee's committed suicide. And he's not the only one. Is it the pressure? Or is there some other connection? Has Hayden...
ja-konrath's picture
Sep.09.2008
Jack's back, and once again she's up to her Armani in murder. Someone is sending Jack snuff videos. The victims are people she knows, and they share a common trait---each was involved in one of Jack's previous cases. With her stalwart partner, Herb, hospitalized and unable to help, Jack follows a...
alexandra-sokoloff's picture
Aug.17.2008
An illustrated collection of noir superhero tales from award-winning mystery, suspense and horror authors such as Walter Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Tannarive Due and Alexandra Sokoloff.
bill-cameron's picture
Jul.17.2008
Portland homicide detective Skin Kadash just wants to survive cancer treatment so he can get back to work he loves. But when his partner tries to drag him into an unofficial investigation of a series of deaths, he’s not interested — he’s dead-dog sick and doesn’t need the grief — until she reveals...