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After waking up from a coma - as a result of two slugs in a shootout - Private Detective Kaiser Wrench becomes embroiled in a deadly search for billions of dollars of missing mob money.

Kaiser is a dangerous tiger to call friend. But, if you're murdered, he will avenge your death. Join him for his last four cases.

Southern Brooklyn, July 1996. Fire hydrants are open and spraying water on the sizzling blacktop. Punk kids have to make their own fun. Bobby Santovasco and his pal Zeke like to throw rocks at cars getting off the Belt Parkway. They think it's dumb and harmless until it's too late to think otherwise. Then there's Jack Cornacchia, a widower who lives with his high school age daughter Amelia and reads meters for Con Ed but also has a secret life as a vigilante, righting neighbourhood wrongs through acts of violence.

Some of his enemies think Kaiser Wrench has softened with age, but he leaps into action when he finds his secretary severely beaten and a mutilated tiger in his desk chair. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Carnage Male, and experience the compelling world of detective fiction.

Alex Devlin’s life changed forever 15 years ago when her sister's two small children were snatched in broad daylight. Little Harry’s body was found a few days later, but Millie’s remains were never discovered. Now Jackie Wood, jailed as an accessory to the twins’ murder, has been released, her conviction quashed by the Appeal Court. Convinced Jackie can reveal where Millie is buried, Alex goes to meet her. But the unexpected information Wood reveals shocks Alex to the core and threatens to uncover the dark secret she has managed to keep under wraps for the past 15 years.

Private Detective Kaiser Wrench slugs it out with a two-timing, still-luscious ex-Hollywood cougar, who’s using everything she’s got, to block the trail of a vicious killer.

En oväntad julklapp har gjort privatdetektiven Kinsey Millhone misstänksam. Från ingenstans har hon med ens blivit femtusen dollar rikare. Men vem är det egentligen som har satt in pengarna på hennes bankkonto? Mysteriet tätnar då hon plötsligt står anklagad för att ha anlagt en mordbrand på beställning.

A kidnapping case leads Kaiser Wrench into a 14-year-old mystery and the sights of the most diabolical killer the clawed private eye has ever faced.

Kaiser Wrench’s voluptuous, long-lost love and lynx is alive and targeted by the infamous assassin known as the Chimera.

Auf dem Gelände eines Beachclubs am Ufer des Essener Baldeneysees wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau entdeckt. Wer ist die Tote, die niemand zu vermissen scheint? Ihre Identität gibt den Ermittlern ein zunächst unlösbares Rätsel auf. Das Team des K3 steht vor einer mehr als kniffeligen Aufgabe. Nicht nur, dass die jüngsten Ereignisse in seinem privaten Umfeld Hauptkommissar Karrenberg alles abverlangen - zu allem Überfluss wird er nach dem Ausfall seines Chefs zum kommissarischen Leiter der Ermittlungseinheit ernannt.

Tiny Wallace’s one claim to fame was knowing Kaiser Wrench. Was that reason enough for someone to gag, torture, and kill the mule? Or was it the five wallets found in his garbage? Bodies pile up while Kaiser returns the wallets, trying to find the killer while Duke and the feds are busy searching for a biological terrorist.

Private Detective Kaiser Wrench finds a dead vixen who has been beaten to death. He tries to stay out of it until he gets a note from someone he put in prison asking him to take the case. A reporter friend has stumbled onto a clue, but dies with a handkerchief in his hand trying to get the information to him. So begins a complicated and baffling case involving the sadistic deaths of other females trying to break into the fashion industry. Can Kaiser, with the help of his beloved Velvet, break the ring that is crushing the lives of vulnerable females?

Tom Keeler finds himself in the town of Promise, Indiana. He just needs to drop off a package, then he can get back to the Florida sunshine. But nothing’s ever that simple. The package gets stolen; things get complicated. Linda Cartwright’s a happily married woman, and then someone tried to kill her on her own front lawn. Why would they do that? Good question. Keeler’s interested, but Cartwright won’t talk about it. When Cartwright’s attacked a second time, Keeler begins to suspect that she’s in over her head. She’s a tough lady, but even tough nuts crack.

In this pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last minute, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger finds himself in a deadly game with an elusive killer who has given a young lawyer a chance to save his next victim.

Danger finds comedian Biff Kincaid once again in this novella set in the high-stakes world of late-night talk shows. For years, Biff’s friend Lonnie Udall has been the sidekick to Doug Easton, host of "Last Laughs", television’s top-rated late-night talk show. When Biff accepts a gig as Lonnie’s opening act at a Palm Springs casino, he thinks he’s in for a lucrative week of sold-out stand-up shows. The first night goes well, but the next morning, Lonnie is nowhere to be found.

SOCO Maya Barton is called to a canal where a heavily decomposed male body has been discovered. A bank card belonging to Trevor Dawlish is found in the cadaver's pocket, and the name matches that of a missing person. All seems straightforward - until Trevor's wife phones the police to say that Trevor has returned home, leaving Maya and the team wondering who the unknown male is. When it's revealed that the male was dead before he entered the water, Maya finds herself with a murder on her hands.

2006: Doc er involveret i et amerikansk tophemmeligt psykologisk eksperiment kaldet NASDAF. Lavfrekvent støj og stoffer gør folk vanvittige, og med hjælp fra psykologer bliver deres adfærd gradvist mere som robotter end mennesker. Da Doc indser, at hans overordnede misbruger såvel forsøgspersoner som eksperimentets formål, bliver konfrontationen mildest talt dramatisk, og han er tvunget til at flygte.

Christmastime in London: a period of joy and togetherness. Not for Metropolitan Police Commander Austin Grant, though. Three dead bodies have turned up on his patch, and the only thing they have in common is a number carved into their foreheads. A professor of ancient mythology, a sculptor of curious idols, frontman of The Blasphemers. It seems the killer is meting out their own justice, Biblically, punishing those who transgress the Ten Commandments. With seven commandments left, Grant sets the Met's best detectives to the case, scouring the capital before the zealot can strike again.

Private Detective Kaiser Wrench is on the prowl for international spies, on the lookout for military secrets, and on the make with a treacherous society mink too tempting for her own good.

He was a nice cheetah. Now he's dead. Kaiser Wrench suspects murder, while the cops are calling it a suicide. Without a license or a gun, Wrench is pushing his way through a swirl of sex-and-game clubs, high priced models, and not just a little blackmail. Someone is working hard to frame Wrench and he’s working hard to find out why. Everywhere he turns, he keeps coming up against a beautiful tigress named Viola. She holds the key to the crime wave that could unlock the mystery behind the nice cheetah’s murder...