Collins provides a vivid portrait of college-town life in the Vietnam years as Nolan does a favor for an old-time Mafia friend and tries to find out how his daughter was killed. Was it really a suicide like the police say? Or was she involved...
No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she’d be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that’s precisely what she ends up doing when she responds to Frank...
The Investigating Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Colloquium and donation of the third largest collection of Sherlockiana in the world were supposed to produce a weekend of publicity for St. Benignus college. But when theft and murder come to...
Chicago, September 1964. Beatlemania sweeps the nation, the Vietnam War looms, and the Warren Commission prepares to blame a “lone-nut” assassin for the killing of President John F. Kennedy. But as the post-Camelot era begins, a suspicious...
Lane Parker hadn’t seen her childhood friend, Maggie Donaldson in years, yet when Maggie’s son went missing she knew who to call. Lane and her new best friend, criminal defense attorney, Ben Bellini won’t rest until Maggie’s son is found....
All families have secrets, but some secrets are more dangerous than others. Lane Parker expected an uneventful night when she went to the movies alone to see her daughter, Jess’s debut on the big screen. What Lane got was a killer headache and a...
Just over a month ago, Lane Parker’s fiancé, criminal defense attorney Ben Bellini, told her that he needed some space. She still sees him on a nightly basis … on the news. Ben is making national headlines defending a state Senator who is on...
Lane Parker’s youngest son, Jamie, is about to play in the high school state football championship. But days before the game, Jamie is first on the scene when the starting quarterback gets sacked by an unknown assailant and then again when the...
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a...
Bob Bruce's retirement is settling into an easy rhythm of golf and gardening when a knock at his door brings a stranger with startling news that will change his life. Together they unearth a fraud being conducted by a financial investment firm in...