Convinced that the American partner of an Albanian mafia organization has murdered her friend, Shy enlists the aid of Ryder to maintain the fragile peace while she delves further into her investigation.
Bestselling author Roy Glenn returns with When It’s Over, his latest Mike Black novel that delivers shocking urban suspense. NYPD Detectives Kirk and Dawkins are pursuing Chet French, aka Big Frenchie, a small-time armed robber who did some time for aggravated assault. He stepped up to the big time when he robbed Mama’s Country Kitchen, one of The Family’s gambling houses, killing the houseman and four civilians in the process. When Mike Black and Bobby Ray take a personal interest and start asking questions, the bodies begin to pile up. When the unthinkable happens, the entire Family is pushed to the brink of a war they didn’t want to fight. The only way to avoid blood in the street is for Kirk and Dawkins to find the people responsible before Black and Rain Robinson do.
In this prelude to Cold Blooded, Mike Black and his wife, Shy, are trying again to put that life behind them, raise their children, and spend the rest of their lives loving one another in peace. That peace is shattered when Elias Colton, a prominent member of the Black Business Association and close associate of New York City gangster Mike Black, is murdered. The detectives assigned to the case believe that they have a suspect, and the motive is sex, money, or both. However, when Black and Shy are spotted at the funeral, the detectives know that it's necessary to eliminate Black and The Family, the criminal organization that he controls, as prime suspects. They soon discover that the murder has international implications. With the war behind them, everybody in The Family has gone back to making money. However, Underboss Rain Robinson is preoccupied with her situation with Carter Garrison, and she needs some space to figure out what to do. So when her cousin, Sapphire Langston, goes missing, Rain uses the disappearance as an excuse to distance herself from Carter. At Sapphire's apartment, someone has ransacked the place and is still there waiting when Rain arrives. Rain fights off her ambusher after a wild shootout, but now, as the search for Sapphire and the investigation of Elias Colton's murder continues, it becomes evident that the two are connected.
Believing that her husband, Chilly, a major player in the drug world, is responsible for the mysterious disappearance of her brother, Gabriel Childers hires private investigator Nick Simmons to find the truth, but Nick becomes too immersed in the case, which leads to his arrest.
After his wife loses her baby and slips into a deep depression, James Robinson becomes involved in an affair with Avonte Sims, a married woman with issues of her own: her rich husband has a new blonde mistress and wants a divorce. James and Avonte meet Qianna Patterson, an unstable woman with a criminal record and a history of violence. Together, the trio plans the murder of Robinson's wife for the insurance money, but each one is involved for selfish reasons unknown to the others.
In this different type of love story, New York City gangster Mike Black has it all. His violent rise to power earned him the nickname "Vicious Black." He has power, money, and the very best of everything. Although he has everything he ever wanted, none of it seems to matter. Black becomes enchanted with Cassandra Sims, a beautiful woman who is involved in the drug business. She has a dual degree in management and marketing and treats the drug game like a Fortune 500 company. In her view, drugs are nothing more than a product to be marketed and distributed. She is on top of the world until an attempt is made on her life. Black rescues her and he becomes her protector. As they hunt for her would-be assassins, their relationship develops, and they fall in love on an intriguing journey through Washington, DC, Miami Beach, and the Bahamas. The pursuit leads them back to New York City, where all the pieces to the puzzle come together.
When a long-time friend is assassinated, Mike Black orders Nick Simmons to find the killers. Nick finds that Rain Robinson has betrayed his trust, and has set up a drug operation behind his back and her dealers are getting robbed and murdered, execution style. Now that the police are on the case, Nick knows that he has to crush this before the cops tie the drugs and the murders to Rain.
When the man who murdered her sister is acquitted, model Carmen Taylor launches her own investigation, with the help of attorney Marcus Douglas, that leads her into a dark underworld of prostitution, money laundering and drugs that the police and District Attorney choose to ignore.
Three notorious players--Carter, a gigolo who has found the perfect woman; Vernon, who is having an affair with his wife's best friend; and Rick, who wants to make it out of the game--must make some tough choices when they discover that love is more important than sex. Reprint.
When she files for divorce after discovering her husband's indiscretion, Panthea Daniels finds her world spiralling out of control when she has an illicit affair with her lawyer and is accused of murdering her husband's mistress. Original.
True story of a boy that grew up poor in the back country of the Western United States in the mid-20th Century. Then, as a man, prospered in exciting ways he never dreamed were possible. The book illustrates his life experiences with pictures and stories, both humorous and serious, as he pursued his passion to succeed in business and in his personal life. The boy is now an octogenarian reflecting, and opining, on changes he has witnessed over the past decades. Roy Glenn Vawter began writing in his retirement years. He decided it was time to put in print, and digital form, the stories of a lifetime involving excitement, sorrow, reflection, success, failure and regrets. He was the first in his family to graduate from college, the Colorado School of Mines and later attended the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. He is a world traveler and energy expert with a passion for understanding volcanos and earthquakes and published a novel on the subject titled Death by Inferno.
In 1904 one of the last train robberies in the United States was pulled off by a gang led by Kid Curry, a notorious Wild Bunch outlaw who killed lawmen and robbed banks with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. According to recorded history, Kid Curry took his own life instead of being captured near Parachute, Colorado. Was another member of the gang misidentified as Kid Curry and buried at the same cemetery in Glenwood Springs where Doc Holliday is interred? Kid Curry may have survived the shoot out with a posse, escaped, and continued his life in Colorado and Utah using the identity of a homesteader. Was he a folk hero, as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid became, or a lawless murderous villain?
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