"Chop Shop is a wild blend of pulp fiction with dark comedy; its engrossing plot always seems just about to spin out of control." - ForewordAmber Hawthorne and Jolene Morris, roommates and business partners at the Hawthorne Funeral Home, are drowning in debt. Because both young women have trouble keeping their partying habits in line, they start selling body parts on the black market to keep their business alive – and their new buyers seem friendly and trustworthy enough at first. That is until the dead gangster they've recently parted up turns out to have been full of disease. Now Amber and Jolene's buyers want something else to make up for lost profits, leaving the two undertakers to learn sometimes running your own business can cost you an arm and a leg. Literally. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

A detective follows a case from Dublin to Cornwall—but the suspect keeps disappearing into the mist . . .When Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West is called to investigate a murder in a Dublin graveyard, suspicion immediately falls on a local woman, Edel Johnson, whose husband disappeared some months before. But then she vanishes.Evidence leads West to a small village in Cornwall, but when he checks in to an inn, he finds Edel has arrived ahead of him. Her explanation seems to make sense, but just as West begins to think his suspicions of her are unfounded, she disappears again.Is she guilty? West, fighting an unsuitable attraction, doesn't want to believe it. But the case against her is growing. Back in Dublin, his team uncovers evidence of blackmail and illegal drugs connected to Edel's missing husband. When another man is murdered, she once again comes under suspicion. West knows he has to untangle the truth—but it may not be the truth he wants to hear . . .Previously published under the title That One May Smile

The first novel in the addictive USA Today million-selling CSI police procedural series. 'Like Scarpetta? You'll LOVE Steel.' IRISH INDEPENDENT.Forensic investigator Reilly Steel, Quantico-trained and California-born and bred, imagined Dublin to be a far cry from bustling San Francisco, a sleepy backwater where she can lay past ghosts to rest and start anew.But a serial killer soon puts paid to that idea.A young man and woman are found dead in a hotel room, the evidence initially suggesting a suicide pact.But as Reilly and the investigative team dig deeper and more bodies are discovered, they soon realize that each crime has an intriguingly unique element in common.And that a cunning mind is at work, one who seeks to upset society's norms in the most twisted way...'Be warned - you won’t put it down ... ' -- LOVEREADING2nd edition. Originally published in the UK & Ireland as 'TABOO'.

"A gripping story with dramatic twists, and a memorable heroine." —James Patterson, #1 New York Times bestselling authorMcCown County assistant prosecutor Elsie Arnold is prepping an assault case when a girl is found beaten and bloodied at a roadside no-tell motel. Elsie tries to convince the teen to reveal who attacked her, but Mandy is too scared—and stubborn—to cooperate… and then she disappears. Elsie's positive a predator is targeting the Ozark hills, yet the authorities refuse to believe their small town could be plagued by sex trafficking.Then middle school student Desiree Wickham goes missing, but only Elsie suspects it could be connected to Mandy's assault. As she digs deeper into the events leading up to Desiree's disappearance, she stumbles upon an alarming discovery: local girls are falling prey to a dubious online modeling agency, and never seen again. Elsie shares her concerns with Detective Ashlock and the FBI, but they shut her out. She takes matters into her own hands and lands an interview with the head of the modeling agency. But when she meets him face-to-face, she discovers the fate of Desiree and Mandy… and becomes his newest captive. Elsie's desperate to free the girls—and save herself—before the unspeakable happens. And she's in for the fight of her life.

Bag the ENTIRE AWARD-WINNING Jeri Howard murder mystery series for barely a buck a book!Fans of hard-boiled women sleuths and detective novels with a twist will love P.I. Jeri Howard. If you like Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, T.R. Ragan, Laura Lippman, Sara Paretsky, and Alison Gaylin, this intelligent, action-packed anthology is a mega bargain!"Jeri combines V.I.'s social conscience with Kinsey's badass attitude and a snappy narrative voice..."-Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post Book WorldJeri's as savvy as Sam Spade, with something of Spade's seen-it-all outlook. She handles the daily bread and butter without breaking a sweat, and she's got the street smarts to handle the bad guys, always managing somehow to land a well-deserved punch. What she doesn't know, her chic lawyer pal, Cassie, can supply; and her cop ex-husband's on hand to make trouble."Dawson keeps suspense and interest at high pitch." -Publishers WeeklyKINDRED CRIMESA puzzling missing persons case--a wife who disappears with the grocery money--keeps winding backward, revealing brand new secrets as fast as ancient skeletons can fall out of closets.TILL THE OLD MEN DIEThe grisly murder of a sedate, widowed history professor, is written off as a random street crime until a woman turns up at his university, claiming to be his widow and demanding access to his "papers."TAKE A NUMBEROut of loyalty to a former client, Jeri takes on a nasty divorce case. The soon-to-be ex-husband winds up with a bullet in his back, and the prime suspect is Jeri's client.DON'T TURN YOUR BACK ON THE OCEANJeri is looking to catch a respite from the PI life to relax and visit family in lovely Monterey on the California coast. Now, what's the worst thing that could happen on a PI's vacation? A dead body on the beach, most likely.NOBODY'S CHILDIs a Jane Doe uncovered at a construction site the body of her client's long-lost daughter Maureen? If so, what's become of Maureen's two-year-old daughter?A CREDIBLE THREATA UC Berkeley undergrad fears the worst when her shared house receives multiple threats from an unknown antagonizer.WITNESS TO EVILA seventeen-year-old Jeri tracked down when she swiped her mother's credit card and took off for Paris is now a "person of interest" in a murder case--and, once again, in the wind.WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIEDJeri's newest client was about to blow the whistle on a large food manufacturer just before he took a header out his fifth-floor apartment window--but he hadn't yet told her what it was about. Next step: Undercover in the corporate office.A KILLING AT THE TRACKSet in the fascinating and forbidden racetrack backside. Dawson's complex plot is a pleasure--one dead jockey, then two dead jockeys, three exotic poisons, and several possible payoffs.

Lux Bern is not who everyone thinks she is. As her past comes back to haunt her, Lux takes on more responsibility as West Seven Police Department’s newest deputy. When a man named Joshua Fiorello turns up dead, the acting detective rules his death a suicide. Lux isn’t so sure, but no one else believes Joshua was murdered. Meanwhile, Lux works with Detective Chike Nwadike to uncover the identity of the notorious drug lord known only as the Serpent. The pressure is on—will Lux rise to the challenge or crumble beneath it?