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En el corazón de Tasmania, donde los bosques ancestrales susurran secretos y las sombras bailan con el viento, se desarrolla un misterio escalofriante que deja a la comunidad isleña sumida en el miedo y la incertidumbre. Cuando tres jóvenes desaparecen sin dejar rastro de la aparentemente tranquila ciudad de Hobart, las vidas de los habitantes de la isla cambian para siempre. Entra en escena el detective Harry Chin, un investigador experimentado de rostro inescrutable y ojos que han presenciado las profundidades más oscuras de la naturaleza humana. Harry ha pasado su vida navegando por ...

Amidst the enchanting, perpetual twilight of Saint Petersburg's White Nights festival, a darker reality unfolds for Inspectors Dmitri Petrov and Manislov Illich. Their seemingly straightforward assignment--revisiting two long unsolved cold cases, soon uncovers a disturbing sequence of interconnected crimes. What began as routine soon takes a sinister turn, hinting that the truths they seek are far more perilous than they could imagine. An intricate and captivating mystery, it plunges readers into the heart of Saint Petersburg's hidden darkness. "With atmospheric prose and a sinister plot, ...

Haunted by the ghosts of San Francisco's Summer of Love and the blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty he left behind, Clyde Thomas reenlists in the army and goes back to Vietnam as part of the 716th Military Police in Saigon. He arrives back a month before the Tet Offensive, hoping to clear the demons from his soul. But as the Tet Offensive explodes and Saigon crumbles into fiery chaos, he discovers a different kind of darkness—a war spiraling out of control, staining the soul of a nation. Drawn into Saigon's intoxicating underbelly, haunted by visions of Moonbeam and a new, forbidden love with...

History roared with the crack of a gunshot on April 4th, 1968. Locked away, a 16-year-old boy saw his chance and ran. Escaping a Nevada reformatory for possession of drugs. He jumped a freight train, oblivious to the echoes of gunfire changing the nation. One hitch on a desolate highway, a passing Mustang, and a stranger who becomes his lifeline... and his curse. With promises of a new life. His flight from prison is transformed into a twisted journey fueled by lies and manipulation as the young man is lured across the border into Mexico, then back to Los Angeles. His destination: the ...

Honolulu Lulu Honolulu Lulu, la tercera entrega de la serie Big Huna, es divertidísima y la más alocada hasta la fecha, con un elenco de personajes que parecen sacados de Oliver Twist. En el soleado paraíso de Waikiki, una oscura verdad acecha bajo la superficie. Un asesino en serie acecha los hoteles de lujo, dejando a los investigadores desconcertados por la selección aparentemente aleatoria de las víctimas y la terrible publicidad que crece exponencialmente día a día. Mientras tanto, a medida que aumenta el número de muertos, un trío de diminutos ladrones de bancos, con ...

Russian Roulette: A Dmitri Petrov Crime Novel The call to Chief Inspector Dmitri Petrov comes as he is about to retire for the night. The Director of Major Crimes, his voice frantic with the news that four men were executed at one of Saint Petersburg's most upscale restaurants by a group of Chechens wielding AK-47s. But the victims were not well to do business leaders; they were high-ranking vory—powerful leaders of the biggest organized crime groups in the Russian Federation. The Director of Major Crimes, terrified of a brutal gang war erupting in the streets of Saint Petersburg, has a ...

La Comadreja, un nombre que describía a la perfección al hombre. Delgado, con una tez como la tierra quemada por el sol, este hawaiano de unos 40 años era un personaje habitual del lado oscuro de Waikiki. Llevaba una vida transitoria, su camioneta hacía las veces de hogar cuando las olas no llamaban. Los turistas eran su sustento, presa fácil de la marihuana que vendía en las playas bañadas por el sol. Por las noches lo encontraba fumando hielo, fascinado por Bonnie Lim, una chica china que bailaba en un escenario bañado por luces de colores. Conozco a la Comadreja desde hace más ...

¡Aloha se fusiona con el caos en esta escandalosa aventura criminal! Conoce a Comadreja: un enjuto surfista hawaiano de 40 años. De día, surfea las olas turquesas de Waikiki y vende marihuana de primera en la playa, con la ayuda de un colorido loro, el Capitán Morgan, y una majestuosa cacatúa blanca llamada Bolas de nieve. Al caer la noche, el aire salado de la playa se transforma en el ambiente ahumado de un club de striptease de Waikiki. Allí, Comadreja se pierde en el seductor resplandor del escenario, hipnotizado por Bonnie Lim, una bailarina china con una sonrisa que derretía ...

En el húmedo abrazo de una noche de Portland, una confesión tan vil se derrama desde las sombras de la Gruta que el Padre Thomas huye del confesionario. Le pide a otro sacerdote que tome el relevo, pero el destino, al parecer, es una deidad caprichosa. El sacerdote equivocado termina con la garganta cortada, víctima de una identidad equivocada. Atormentado por sus propios demonios, el detective Johnny Walker toma el caso. Luchando contra el hambre insaciable de la adicción, se adentra en el corazón engañoso de Portland, desenterrando una oscuridad que supura debajo de la superficie. ...

En Darwin, Australia, en los Territorios del Noroeste, los cocodrilos no son los únicos depredadores que acechan. El inspector Harry Chin y su compañero, Ash Friday, un fiero detective aborigen de ojos oscuros y melancólicos, son enviados desde Canberra para investigar el asesinato de un oficial de la Policía Federal Australiana, Peter Riggs. Riggs había estado trabajando de forma encubierta en una red internacional de heroína que parece estar llegando a través del puerto de Darwin. El oficial había sido encontrado muerto en su coche por una sobredosis de heroína, la misma droga ...

It wasn't easy growing up in lower Alabama for Elmo King. Being tall and butt-ugly with kids picking on you just because you prefer being a girl. Somewhere along the way as a cruel joke, Elmo picked up the nickname Too-Sweet. Yearning for a life as vibrant as her spirit, she set her sights on the colorful chaos of San Francisco At the heart of San Francisco's infamous Tenderloin district beats Divas, a transgender bar unlike any other. Owned by the charismatic Abdul, Divas is less a club and more a raucous, resilient family--think Cheers, but with a cast of unforgettable queens whose lives ...

Too-Sweet's adventures continue in this outrageous fourth installment of the Too-Sweet Saga. Our heroine, Too-Sweet, along with Speedy Gonzales, have fled London by train to Liverpool. They take a ferry to Belfast, in Northern Ireland, along with ten kilos of cocaine that Speedy had stashed in a storage locker back in Soho. Upon arriving they rent a nasty old, boarded up bar, built out on a wharf called The Black Irish. They get help from their IRA friends to get things going. Too-Sweet decides to build a big mud pit in the center of the bar and feature nude wrestling with four fierce ...

Too-Sweet's adventures continue in English Rose, the third installment of the Too-Sweet Saga. After narrowly escaping Tijuana, she finds herself in the heart of London, where she establishes the Gay Paddy, a unique Irish Leather Bar and Spank Emporium. But chaos follows her, as Speedy Gonzales smuggles a massive cocaine shipment hidden in frozen burritos. Join Too-Sweet and her quirky new crew for a hilarious and action-packed journey through London's vibrant underworld. Fans of DIVAS and Tijuana Taxi won't want to miss this outrageous installment!

It's 1970 in the glamorous heart of Paris. Moonlight, music, and murder collide in smoky backstreets, shimmering on champagne flutes like a soft, French kiss tainted with danger. Clyde thought he'd finally escaped his violent past, building a sanctuary with his love, Moonbeam--their jazz club a beacon fueled by the rhythm of a new life, not the echoes of old bloodshed. Paris was meant to be Clyde's escape, a chance to build a new life. But enemies resurface like ghosts, shattering the fragile peace. As the Red Liberation Front unleashes its deadly agenda, the man who craves the quiet melody...

The Bunkers Picking up where Spam Sushi left off, this outrageous crime caper follows the adventures of the Bunkers, a mischievous crew of seven, ten-year-old boys who are back in business. Peddling dried seaweed as pot to tourists in Waikiki is their usual hustle, but when a purse-snatching escapade turns up a kilo of crystal meth instead of cash, their lives take a hilarious and dangerous turn. Selling seaweed as pot is easy, but offloading a kilo of ice? That's a whole other can of worms, especially when you're only ten years old. Enter the Weasel, a colorful forty-year-old surfer with a...

Honolulu Lulu Honolulu Lulu--the third in the Big Huna Series, is outrageously funny and the wildest yet--with a cast of characters right out of Oliver Twist. In the sun-drenched paradise of Waikiki, a darker truth lurks beneath the surface. A serial killer stalks the luxury hotels, leaving investigators baffled by the victims' seemingly random selection and the horrid publicity that is growing exponentially by the day. Meanwhile, as the body count rises, a trio of pint-sized bank robbers, wearing black pygmy masks, pull off a daring heist and get away clean. Enter Big Huna, Chief Inspector...

Too-Sweet, a southern girl with a yen for adventure, flees Japan and lands in the sun-kissed embrace of Queensland, Australia. Ten miles north of Cairns, she stumbles into a wild business venture with her Yakuza partner and an endearingly shady Japanese counterfeiter. Their shopping list? A crocodile farm, a jungle boat, a twenty-unit motel, and—wait a giant bar. But this isn’t just any bar. Too-Sweet christens it, The Naked Pygmy, because apparently, in Australia, dwarf tossing at bars is a national sport. And why not? It’s a land where kangaroos box, wombats moonwalk, and emus have ...

Tijuana Taxi This is the second book in the Too-Sweet Saga Series. Too-Sweet, after escaping from jail in San Francisco, has relocated to Tijuana, Mexico, where she buys a rundown bar, and turns it into a gay nightclub called Tweety Pies. She decides that a change is in order, and gets rid of her blonde wig, and replaces it with a red one--which Too-Sweet feels gives her a striking resemblance to Lucile Ball. Well, okay, maybe if Lucy had been up smoking crack for a week. Unbeknown to Too-Sweet, the serial killer, Lewis Beasom (aka Pee-Baby) has also relocated to Tijuana, and takes up where...

Aloha meets mayhem in this outrageous crime caper! Meet the Weasel: a wiry 40-year-old native Hawaiian surfer. By day, he rides the turquoise waves of Waikiki, and sells primo bud on the beach--with the help of a colorful parrot, Captain Morgan and a majestic white cockatoo named Snowballs. Come nightfall, the salty air of the beach trades places with the smoky ambience of a Waikiki strip club. There, the Weasel loses himself in the seductive glow of the stage, mesmerized by Bonnie Lim, a Chinese dancer with a smile that could melt coconuts and a tongue sharper than a coral reef. One ...

Amidst the crumbling facades of a once vibrant city, the line between hunter and hunted blurs as private detective Johnny Walker plunges into a deadly game. Hired by a distraught Russian oligarch whose youngest daughter has vanished, Johnny soon discovers that the missing girl is merely a pawn in a much larger conspiracy. Her two stunning sisters, entwined in a web of family lies and secrets, become instrumental in unraveling a plot that stretches far beyond Portland's borders. Meanwhile, Detective Sandy Jenkins, Johnny's girlfriend, wages a relentless war against the city's escalating ...