Bøger af Steve Laracy

Jack Kovacs, kicked off the police force, becomes a private detective in 1920s Chicago. Seven the Hard Way is a collection of six short stories and one novella tracing Kovacs's life from the Prohibition era to the late 1940s."Hard Winter Night"-Kovacs helps a woman who owes money, money she can't repay, to a mob boss."Good Day for a Massacre"-Caught up in two events of 1929, the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre and the stock market crash, Kovacs travels Route 66 to Oklahoma, searching for a runaway wife and a box of ancient coins."Crooked Alley"-A murder in the alley behind Kovacs's office building sends him searching for a book the mob wants to recover and the woman who took it."Kovacs Alone" (novella)-Kovacs revisits old neighborhoods and retraces his life while trying to solve four murders. The only apparent connection to the four murders-Kovacs himself."Aladdin's Castle"-The kidnapping of an executive for a novelties company climaxes in a hunt around an amusement park."Down for the Count"-Trying to help a woman locate a missing boyfriend, Kovacs finds murder in Milwaukee."Ten Cents a Dance"-Nearing retirement, Kovacs finds a corpse in the Chicago stockyards and takes a final shot at romance with a dime-a-dance girl.

When Milo Forbes, an unsuccessful private detective from the crowded streets of San Diego, finds himself stranded in the backwater desert town of Cordoba, he's reluctantly recruited by the town's mayor to help solve some open cases: reports of a prowler lurking around the town diner; the disappearance of vintage magazines from the doctor's office; and, most importantly, the death of a local skydiver. Much to Milo's misery, he finds the eccentric townsfolk and old-fashioned lifestyle of Cordoba very different from the modern, fast-paced city he's used to. With a nine-year-old girl as his unwanted but determined sidekick, Milo's investigative trail leads him to an ex-boxer who channels Humphrey Bogart movies, a town matriarch with a secret past, and the elderly, lemonade-sipping, telescope-snooping Flagg sisters. He also crosses paths with Felicity, the owner of the local boardinghouse, and romance beckons. But just when it seems Milo has solved the mysteries and found love in the unlikeliest of locales, the discovery of human bones and suspicious activity at Samantha's boardinghouse threaten to turn his life-and the lives of every Cordoba resident-upside down.