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"Mike Taggart has always been willing to take a gamble. But these stakes are just way too high - there's no way he's prepared to become a legal guardian to his five-year-old niece. His only option is to head from Las Vegas to Last Chance to sort things out as quickly as possible. Problem is, he arrives to find an inconsolable little girl, her sick cat, and a gorgeous veterinarian he can't get out of his mind. Charlene Polk has two talents: healing...

"Even better than his Shamus-finalist debut, Spiked." ---Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Speak Ill of the Living Highly praised by both reviewers and mystery writers, Mark Arsenault introduces a stunning new suspense series with his courtroom drama, Gravewriter. Billy Povich used to be a journalist. He lost his wife because of his gambling habit, and then she died in a car crash. Now he finds himself writing obituaries and living with his...

"Ray Parisi is in trouble. Fired from his anchor job at ESPN after one too many public humiliations, he is holed up in a motel and in desperate need of a break. His ex-wife is shacking up with another guy in his old house, a Cambodian bookie wants to kill him, and he's wanted by the New York State Police. A few days before the Fourth of July, he unexpectedly receives an inheritance from his long-lost father, and it seems like all of his problems might...

Despite its name, Sunrise is a wicked town. The only wide open town in the Crazy Butte country, it attracts gamblers to saloons like the Red Arrow. The most prosperous saloon in town, the Red Arrow is owned by Big Tom Lester, who runs Sunrise if anyone does. Sheriff Mills rarely comes to town, in part because of a tacit agreement with outlaw leader Ed Lawson. But now the sheriff shows up and warns Big Tom that a man named Bovert is heading for town...

"Mississippi charmer Abner Mason is a professional gambler and a regular on the Delta Jack, a luxurious riverboat. But luck hasn?t exactly been going Mason?s way. After a disastrous loss at the tables, he owes an impossible debt to the most powerful man on the ship: mysterious, ruthless Cam Greeley. And Greeley?s willing to do whatever it takes to get his fortune back - even threaten Mason's life. Now Mason has a single night to raise all the funds...

Some men gambling for the money, some for thrill... He's gambling for his life.

Miranda Clifford, who leads a life of rigid respectability, turns to Neville Roscoe, ruler of London's gambling underworld, for help in finding her missing brother, only to find herself attracted to this disreputable man.

Men and their rackets, fools and their money, power and it's corruption, sex and gambling.

"Twas the night before Christmas... It takes guts and good luck to pull off an armored car robbery, and Walter and Eddie have both. But getting the money and getting away with it are two different things, especially with a blizzard coming down, the cops in hot pursuit, and a double-crossing gambler and a sadistic park ranger threatening to turn this white Christmas blood red"--Page [4] of cover.

Determined to marry into a respectable family, gambler Lewton Paterson, sets his sights on Emily McMurray, one of the McMurray sisters. Unfortunately, Emily has no intention of ever getting married, especially to a man like Lewt.