GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR LEGAL THRILLERS, GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS Who strangled Jimmy Lyons at the Pink Pony? The world-class Port Huron to Mackinac sailboat race has just finished at Mackinac Island. As soon as the boats dock, the sailors head for the legendary Pink Pony, including Jimmy Lyons and his crew. But the night takes a grisly turn. Jimmy is found dead the next morning in the bar, strangled by a string of Christmas tree lights. Murdo Halverson, Jimmy's former partner and one of the crew, is arrested for the murder. But each of the crew, had a reason to kill him. As did his wife, Jane. Burr Lafayette, recently divorced and the deposed head of the litigation department of a major Detroit law firm, is recruited to defend Murdo. A man at loose ends, Burr is a brilliant but troubled lawyer. He prefers boats over courtrooms, dogs over clients, and martinis over just about everything else. He’s also not a criminal lawyer, but he takes the case because he’s nearly bankrupt, and he desperately needs the money. The prosecutor has damning evidence and witnesses that make Murdo look guilty. Unless Burr can find a suspect, Murdo is going to be convicted of first-degree murder. • • • "Cutter cranks the excitement up a notch in The Pink Pony, a first rate murder mystery where nothing is as it seems." — Bill Castanier, Lansing City Pulse FIRST PRIZE WINNER at The Global Book Awards If you like C. J. Box and Joseph Heywood, you'll love The Pink Pony . The Pink Pony is the first book in the award-winning Burr Lafayette mystery series.

An innocent man doesn’t run. He fights. After two combat tours in Afghanistan, Adam Cash returns to small-town Pinyon, Texas, hoping for peace and a steady job as deputy sheriff. But his high school nemesis, Sheriff Griff Turner, has other plans and makes it clear Cash isn’t welcome. Still haunted by war—and by the heartbreak of walking away from his high school sweetheart, Edie—Cash launches a longshot campaign to unseat Turner and loses. When Turner turns up dead the next day, all signs point to Cash. Now on the run and desperate to clear his name, Cash uncovers a conspiracy far more dangerous than he imagined—one that could destroy countless lives. To stop it, he will have to risk everything, including the one chance he has left with Edie. Blunt Force Trauma is the gripping first book in the Adam Cash Mystery Series, perfect for fans of Craig Johnson, C.J. Box, and modern Western crime thrillers. Award-winning author Jeff Kerr brings his deep Texas roots and passion for the Western tradition to this explosive, character-driven series packed with suspense, heart, and justice. ___________________________________________________________________ Praise for the Adam Cash Mystery Series: ? ? ? ? ? A Texas-style, twisty whodunit ? ? ? ? ? Adam Cash is a true-to-life hero—flawed, determined, and unforgettable ? ? ? ? ? Run Cash, run!... Very well written. I highly recommend it. ? ? ? ? ? Awesome storytelling! I couldn’t put the book down, and looking forward to the sequel and many more! ? ? ? ? ? Very entertaining and well-written. I hope there are more Adam Cash thriller/mystery stories by Jeff Kerr. We sure need them.

From "one of the unsung legends of crime fiction" ( Chicago Tribune ), a novel about justice, character and fate, set in an American city at war with itself. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist A Prix du Roman Noir d'Etranger Winner Oakland, California, 1983: a city churning with violent crime and racial conflict. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with the demons that followed him home from the war. But Hanson knows that justice requires more than simply enforcing the penal code. He believes in becoming a part of the community he serves—which is why, unlike most officers, he chooses to live in the same town where he works. This strategy serves him well . . . to a point. He forges a precarious friendship with Felix Maxwell, the drug king of East Oakland, based on their shared sense of fairness and honor. He falls in love with Libya the moment he sees her, a confident and outspoken black woman. He is befriended by Weegee, a streetwise eleven-year-old who is primed to become a dope dealer. Every day, every shift, tests a cop's boundaries between the man he wants to be and the officer of the law he's required to be. At last, an off-duty shooting forces Hanson to finally face who he is, and which side of the law he belongs on.

Is there anything more unsettling than the inability to trust your own senses? Dwayne Morrow is about to find out… Recent events in West Virginia have left Dwayne in a fragile state of mind. His recollections of those final hours are blurry at best, and while he knows what he wants to believe, he’s bound by a promise not to investigate any further. Despite the patience and support from friends and family, he finds himself hobbled by despair, unable to fully confide in anyone. When Boggs Investigations is invited to join a trial mystery weekend on a private island in Lake Erie, Dwayne is pressured by his boss to rejoin the living and participate in what is supposed to be an exercise in teamwork. But the island has a haunted history, and for Dwayne, the line quickly blurs between what is real and what isn’t. Time is running out, and Dwayne must decide whether the real danger is to his friends or to his own sanity. Isolation is the fifth heart-stopping adventure in the Dwayne Morrow Mystery series.

Strange events which took place in 1938 lead to the present-day cold-blooded killing of a ranch hand in the remote canyon country near Moab, Utah. The only clue besides a 9-mm bullet in the victim's head is an ancient-Indian potsherd stuck into his chest. Deputy Sheriff Manny Rivera is assigned the case and judges it's related to a drug deal gone bad. But he's actually up against an intelligent and cunning adversary driven by greed who's discovered a long-forgotten cave containing a collection of rare museum-quality Indian artifacts. Local politicians and merchants are exerting strong pressure on the sheriff for a quick resolution to the case as the killing is threatening to disrupt the upcoming tourist season, Moab's sole source of economic activity. After all, who would want to explore the backcountry with a killer on the loose out there? In the end, Rivera faces an ethical dilemma: Should he enforce the letter of the law or serve the cause of justice? And a woman learns the answer to a question that's been haunting her for seventy years.

Bertha Cool and Donald Lam investigate their twistiest case yet in this thrilling crime novel from the creator of Perry Mason. Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of Perry Mason. At the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print, including the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. Gardner was also one of the most ingenious plot-spinners in the field, coming up with stunning twists and reveals . . . and The Count of 9 is Gardner at his twistiest. Hired to protect the treasures of a globe-trotting adventurer, Bertha and Donald confront an impossible crime: How could anything be smuggled out of a dinner party—least of all a 6-foot-long blowgun—when the guests were X-rayed coming and going? But that’s nothing compared to the crime they face next: An impossible murder . . .