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Hard-hitting crime fiction from the author of Tin Men: "Fans of Charlie Huston and Chuck Palahniuk will probably enjoy Darwin's Nightmare" (Sacramento Book Review).
Wilson spent his entire life under the radar. Few people knew who he was or how to find him. Only two people even knew what he really did-working jobs for one very bad man, illegal jobs no one could ever know about.
Wilson was invisible-until the day he crossed the line and risked...
2) Hell's Bay
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When the matriarch of a powerful and wealthy Florida family is found drowned and her son and granddaughter show up, claiming Thorn as a long-lost relative, Thorn becomes embroiled with a family he never knew he had as he attempts to solve the murder.
3) Grinder
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Two years ago Wilson left his old boss alive in exchange for a clean slate, keeping up his end of the bargain and staying off the grid. Then, thousands of miles from the city he once escaped, a man comes calling on Wilson with a gun in hand and a woman in his trunk. Wilson is pulled back into his old life as a "grinder" to work under the radar to quietly find out who is responsible for a dangerous mobster's missing nephews and this time all bets are...
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Wilson has tried to put his criminal past behind him-but now a random car accident has interfered with his plans and pushed him back in the crosshairs. Dirty cops have gotten their hooks in him and want to use him as bait, telling him the only way to stay out of cuffs is to put someone worse in them.
Knowing that justice isn't blind in the city, Wilson picks a fight with the Russian mob to lure both the corrupt cops and brutal robbers into a trap,...
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Full of gory conflict, these three whodunits offer nonstop action, savage violence, and an unforgettable cast of characters
The Wilson Mystery Omnibus brings together Mike Knowles's first three critically acclaimed novels just as the fourth gritty Wilson mystery, Never Play Another Man's Game (May 2012), hits shelves. In Darwin's Nightmare, we meet the reluctant mob enforcer Wilson who has spent his life under the radar. A simple job - steal a bag...
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"Fans of Donald E. Westlake's Parker novels (written under his Richard Stark pseudonym) will be on familiar ground. . . . A very good entry in a very good series" (Booklist).
Wilson should have just walked away when three men came looking for a way to boost a valuable piece of art. The art came off the wall, the alarm screamed thief, and Wilson walked away clean. But it turned out that job was an interview for an even bigger heist. A dangerous...
8) Shear Murder
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In this exciting prequel to Bad Loyalty we first meet hairdresser, Trudy Wilson.
Trapped in a marriage to a drunk for a husband she faces a failing business and a dead woman, Sharon Carstairs, she's suspected of murdering
To clear herself and find the real murderer Trudy joins forces with Sharon's biker brother, Bruce. Join them on a terrifying ride to a highway of fear, murder and conspiracy to discover the terrible truth. A truth they both fear....
9) Bad Loyalty
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A politcally charged murder in Canada thrusts hairdresser, Trudy Wilson into the middle of a web of conspiracy that threatens to send her friend, biker Bruce Carstairs, to prison forever.
Loyalty drives her to rush to his side to discover the truth and the identity of the real murderer.
But loyalty can be deadly...bad loyalty can be worse.
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A pleasant night in Bay Head, New Jersey turns dangerous as Scarlet Wilson heads for home after a delightful weekend at the beach with boyfriend Kenny "Captain Peacock" Tolliver. A terrified teenager, chased by a homicidal maniac, clings to her car. What do you do when a determined killer comes at the girl attached to your windshield, knife in hand? If you're "Miz Scarlet", you get creative and put the pedal to the metal, even as the cars pile up...
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How challenging can it be for the owners of this small bed-and-breakfast establishment to prepare for a wedding with a guest list of twelve? It hardly seems like a difficult task.
When Scarlet Wilson is asked to host Annalee Pinault and Gunnar Magnusdotter's nuptials at the Four Acorns Inn, she never expects it to start a war of matrimonial madness. Three senior citizens want Scarlet to get into the wedding business and they aren't willing to take...
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Divorced parents who won't stop bickering, a sassy teenager, and a killer stalking her are just what homicide investigator Laurencia "Larry" Rivera doesn't need for Christmas! The short-handed state police investigator can't get a handle on the latest murder case...things just keep going wrong. Is someone trying to intimidate Larry and her team, to protect the killer and prevent him from being caught?
Innkeeper Scarlet Wilson is a good friend. That's...
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A financial Ponzi-style fraud costs the Wilsons everything but the old family manse. Turning it into the Four Acorns Inn sounds like a good idea, except for one thing -- someone is out to ruin them anyway possible, and that includes murder.
The elderly ladies at the inn have a better romantic life than "Miz Scarlet", the forty-something innkeeper. Is she cursed when it comes to men, or is there something more sinister going on? What does it have...
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When innkeeper Scarlet Wilson is asked to accompany her wheelchair-bound mother on a five-night cruise to Bermuda, she expects to have a trip to remember. Boy, will she remember this one!
Accompanied by Laurel Googins Wilson's new beau and Scarlet's old high school flame, the women set sail for paradise. While Scarlet loses herself in a good book on the balcony of their stateroom, poor Laurel witnesses the deadly plunge of a fellow passenger into...
15) Rocks beat paper
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A phone call brought Wilson and nine other men to a job in New York. At first, he couldn't see a way to make the heist work, but the score -- millions of dollars in diamonds -- kept him looking. Wilson came up with a plan he knew would work...until the inside man got killed and took the job with him. With no way inside, the crew walks away without the diamonds. Alone, Wilson is free to execute the job his way. Wilson sets a con in motion that should...
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Scarlet Wilson made a mistake when she quoted Shakespeare. "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Less than an hour later, a lawyer was murdered in a parking garage in Hartford, Connecticut. Not just any lawyer, her lawyer!
When she discovers C. Philip Grimshaw's dead body shortly after their meeting, she's stunned. But while she's on the phone with the 9-1-1 dispatcher, she unexpectedly comes face-to-face with his killer. Connecticut State...
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