Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defence attorney. He's good at it, and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked. His cut is 40%. A high-profile crime boss who has heard o[...]

Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the city's Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local teenager named Asa whose body has been found in a local community garden.The murder unearths intense memories of a case Ramone work[...]

The time is 1976. Captain Beefheart's on the eight-track. The hot new superfly flick King Suckerman is coming to neighborhood theaters. And Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of drugs and racial tension--an easy place to turn a wrong corner and land in a whole lot of trouble.

That's what [...]

From "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world" ("Esquire") comes this powerful early novel, now available in paperback for the first time--the noirish story of how a Washington, D.C., liquor store heist shows a drifter named Constantine what it means to be a shoedog. Martin's Press.[...]

Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of investigators who made their bestselling debut in Right As Rain, are hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who's run away from her home in the suburbs. It's easy for Strange and Quinn to learn that the girl is now working as a prostitute in one of D.C.'s m[...]

Lorenzo Brown is fresh out of the clink. The former drug enforcer has vowed to go straight and found himself a job as an officer for the Humane Society. He patrols downtown DC looking for ill-treated pets - but in the course of his day repeatedly comes face-to-face with his old life. Rachel Lopez is[...]

They never found the killer. All they knew, back in the winter of 1985, was that someone was taking teenagers, killing them and leaving their abused bodies in public parks. Three victims in all, with no link between them except a oddity of their names. They read the same back-to-front - Otto, Ava an[...]

Hidden beneath the floorboards in a house he's remodeling, Christopher Flynn discovers something very tempting-and troubling. Summoning every bit of maturity and every lesson he's learned the hard way, Chris leaves what he found where he found it and tells his job partner to forget it, too. Knowing [...]

This is the third novel in the DC Quartet, the most explosive contribution to crime fiction since Ellroy's LA Quartet. 'King Suckerman', the previous volume, was short-listed for the 1998 CWA Golden Dagger Award.

It's 1986 and Washington DC is being torn apart by the cocaine trade. Th[...]

Svarta själar fortsätter där Ett djävulskt pris (2003) slutade. Derek Strange och Terry Quinn åtar sig nya uppdrag, men dras denna gång in i fall som får ödesdigra konsekvenser även för dem personligen. Derek Strange anlitas av den inflytelserika gangstern Granville Oliver för att finna [...]

djävulskt pris (2003) slutade. Derek Strange och Terry Quinn åtar sig nyauppdrag, men dras denna gång in i fall som får ödesdigra konsekvenser även för dem personligen. Derek Strange anlitas av den inflytelserika gangstern Granville Oliver för att finna en[...]

En mördad tonåring som hittas i en av Washingtons koloniträdgårdar väcker ett gammalt fal till liv i kriminalinspektör Gus Ramones minne. Som nyutexaminerad polis arbetade han och hans kollega Doc Holiday tillsammans med den legendariska kriminalaren T.C. Cook i en ut[...]

Svarta själar fortsätter där Ett djävulskt pris (2003) slutade.

Derek Strange och Terry Quinn åtar sig nya uppdrag, men dras denna gång in i fall som får ödesdigra konsekvenser även för dem personligen. Derek Strange anlitas av den inflytelserika gangstern Granville Oliver fö[...]