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¡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 ...

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!

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...

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 ...

In Darwin, Australia in the Northwest Territories, crocodiles aren't the only predators lurking about. Inspector Harry Chin, and his partner, Ash Friday, a fierce Aboriginal detective with dark brooding eyes, are sent from Canberra to investigate the murder of an Australian Federal Police Officer, Peter Riggs. Riggs had been working undercover on an international heroin ring that seems to be coming in through the Port of Darwin. The officer had been found in his car dead from an overdose of heroin--the very drug that he had been investigating. Everything seems to be pointing to a heroin ...

Senator Barnes, pillar of Canberra's polished facade, found his final thrill at Sydney's hottest after-hours den, Lady Chatterley’s. While getting a lap dance the senator suddenly dropped dead. To make matters worse, the club manager just thought the senator had a heart attack and sent for an ambulance. It wasn’t until he was taken to ER that they realized that it was not natural causes. But by then, the private room that the senator had been using was sanitized leaving little in the way of forensic evidence. The motive? Tangled in a web of political intrigue and illicit desires; as ...

Un informe sobre cómo el gobernador Cuomo dio la orden de volver a colocar a los pacientes infectados por covid en centros de atención a largo plazo en la misma semana en que aprobó la legislación para otorgar inmunidad a la industria de la salud, cuyo apoyo es esencial para su administración corrupta.

Rock & Roll Detective: Un caso que se convirtió en platino (Novela de Johnny Walker 2) El ex inspector de homicidios Johnny Walker pensó que había dejado atrás la brutalidad cuando se retiró de la policía de Portland. Ahora, como investigador privado, Johnny se ve arrastrado nuevamente a las zonas más oscuras de la ciudad cuando un famoso artista de hip-hop lo contrata para encontrar a su hermanastro desaparecido. El caso toma un giro siniestro cuando el hermanastro es encontrado muerto y todos los dedos apuntan al rapero. Resulta que el hermanastro no solo estaba perdido, sino que ...

El Casa de Mono de Ralph Griffith es una autobiografía de su condena en el Centro Médico Federal (FMC) de Butner, en Carolina del Norte. Pasó los últimos siete años de su condena con Bernie Madoff, Jonathan Pollard, Nicky Scarfo, Carmine Persico y otros criminales conocidos. FMC Butner es una prisión de alta seguridad que alberga a reclusos con graves problemas médicos y de salud mental. La prisión también tiene una designación para criminales de alto perfil. Griffith describe la prisión como una "caso de mono gigante para criminales dementes". El Casa de Mono es un relato ...

Es el año 1970 en el glamoroso corazón de París. La luz de la luna, la música y el asesinato se entremezclan en callejones llenos de humo, brillando en las copas de champán como un suave beso francés teñido de peligro. Clyde pensó que finalmente había escapado de su violento pasado y había construido un santuario con su amor, Rayo de Luna; su club de jazz era un faro alimentado por el ritmo de una nueva vida, no por los ecos de un antiguo derramamiento de sangre. París estaba destinado a ser el escape de Clyde, una oportunidad para construir una nueva vida. Pero los enemigos ...

El mundo de una estrella de rock se hace añicos cuando su preciosa novia, Terri Richardson, desaparece sin dejar rastro. Desesperado, Johnny recurre a Johnny Walker, un detective privado de vida dura con un don para descubrir secretos y sed de justicia. Con la ayuda de su novia, la detective de homicidios Sandra Jenkins, Johnny se adentra en la cruda escena musical de Portland, un mundo de traiciones tras bambalinas, rivalidades amargas y obsesiones peligrosas. Pero cuanto más se acerca Johnny a la verdad, más enredada se vuelve la red de engaños y más se da cuenta de que cualquiera de...