Urban Crime Fiction

A large party was given to me and Tony for our release from prison. We were also celebrating our promotions to Capo. Our new business venture was to run drugs and counterfeit money in phony taxis. They were perfect replicas of cabs that traveled thru the city. We operated right under the cop's noses --- making the mob millions. Don Mancini was pleased until I had an accident. I actually had two --- one with the taxi and the other with my girlfriend, both were life changers. Don Carmine Mancini was a brilliant and he turned my negatives into positives.

The body of an elderly woman has been found in the bowels of a derelict asylum on the banks of the Thames. As Detective Lew Kirby and his partner begin their investigation, another body is discovered in the river nearby. How are the two murders connected? Before long, the secrets of Blackwater Asylum begin to reveal themselves. There are rumours about underground bunkers and secret rooms, unspeakable psychological experimentation, and a dark force that haunts the ruins, trying to pull back in all those who attempt to escape.

Serial killer Neva has been conditioned not to ask questions of the mysterious Network, to remain perfectly incurious and perennially cold-blooded. She must simply execute the targets they text her and live to bury the tale. But then she’s tasked with terminating a fellow assassin and glimpses her own future in her colleague’s fate. When she leaves flowers on the gravesite, someone notices.

Cross and his strange but multi-talented crew together form one of the most ruthless and efficient hired guns the world has known. In this first appearance in a novel, they take on an elusive serial killer who no one has ever seen. This savage murderer is leaving a trail of eviscerated bodies all over the world

A woman witnesses from her bedroom window a violent assault on her elderly neighbor, and becomes embroiled in something much larger involving a criminal gang. They want her eliminated. DCI Allison has his work cut out as he tries to close his file on Kelland and Paulson, in the sex trafficking case, together with a number of other crimes linked to the OCG.

Having come of age on the mob-controlled streets of 1960s South Philly, Detective Pete Coletti learned early to walk the fine line between cops and criminals - a skill that served him well during his eighteen years in homicide. Now nearing the end of his illustrious career, the highly decorated Coletti seems to be on the top of his world. But Coletti is harboring a terrible secret.

Detective Carolina McKay survived a serial killer and saved the town she used to call home. Now she finds herself more alone than ever...until a stranger knocks on her door.

Joe Chayefski has got what he always wanted: a reputation as one of America's top neuroscientists, a beautiful wife and two perfect daughters. But when his lab is attacked by animal rights activists, Joe is forced to face the past and reconnect with the son he abandoned 20 years earlier. As he struggles to deal with the collision of his two lives - and to save his eldest daughter from the clutches of an unscrupulous tech company - Joe has to reconsider his priorities and take drastic action to save those he loves.

At last the untold story behind one of Hollywood's long-lost classics can be told! And Pro Se gets to bring it to you! From the casebook of the mysterious Black Centipede, the true story of his adventures in Hollywood while filming the 1930s classic Blood of the Centipede!

Acapulco, 1974: Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill. She wakes to discover her employer's severed head on her bedside table and a man with an AK-47 coming through the door of her hotel room. She needs all her skills to neutralise her attacker and escape. After a car chase, she is captured by a Mexican drug boss who exploits her radiant beauty and ruthless expertise to eliminate an inconvenient member of the government.

"I’m being followed,” she said. “I think he wants to kill me.” When a panicked young woman slips her hand into his in 1960s Chinatown, just before a knife-wielding stalker attacks, private eye Alex Novalis finds his cherished hard-boiled persona threatened by a romantic streak that has a habit of getting him into trouble. Sandy Smollett is triple trouble - a stripper who comes on like the girl next door and has a way of bending the truth to suit any occasion. Novalis finds her irresistible.

In a rundown area of Manchester, inside a bathroom in a small, terraced house overflowing with children and dysfunctional parents, an unfathomable, powerful entity infiltrates 12-year-old Serena's life with disastrous effects. The enigmatic force not only dramatically affects introverted Serena's life, but threatens the well-being of everyone she knows, especially those people who for some reason have earned the strange girl's displeasure. It soon becomes clear that nobody should ever upset Serena.

Wenn Zivilcourage zu Selbstjustiz wird - Andreas Eschbach: Todesengel: Erich Sassbeck wird an einem Bahnhof von Jugendlichen fast zu Tode geprügelt. Ein Unbekannter erschießt die Täter, und der ehemalige DDR-Grenzsoldat Sassbeck gerät unter Verdacht, in Selbstjustiz gehandelt zu haben. Der Journalist Ingo Praise erhebt den unbekannten Racheengel in einem Artikel zum Star - und löst damit eine Katastrophe aus, die es in sich hat.

They took her children away, and she will fight to the end to get them back . . . In 1941, mixed race Ruby Darke is born into a family that seem to hate her, but why? While her two brothers dive into a life of gangland violence, Ruby has to work in their family store. As she blossoms into a beautiful young woman she crosses paths with aristocrat Cornelius Bray, a chance meeting that will change her life forever. When she finds herself pregnant, and then has twins, she is forced to give her children away.

In number-one New York Times best-selling author Charlaine Harris’s "Dahlia Underground,” venerable vampire Dahlia Lynley-Chivers survives an attack by an anti-vampire terrorist group, only to show them they tried to blow up the wrong bloodsucker. Bailey Ruth Raeburn, a ghost assigned to assist humans in trouble, steps into the middle of a marital dispute with surprising twists in Carolyn Hart’s “Riding High”....

Fatherless and as good as motherless, Messiah "Mash" Bankfield must shake his nagging religion from his conscious if he wants to level up in a city centered around the '90s drug boom, twisted sexual exploitation, hardcore hip hop, and deep ghetto philosophy. Even if it requires hustling the same stuff that turned his mother into a dope fiend or taking out the big homies who showed him love, some things just must be. Shaped by the unsavory lifestyle of his sugar-daddy seeking sister and haunted by the spirit of his deceased grandmother, Mash sinks deeper into the darkness.

Like a typical teenager, Dominic Gambino struggles with love, bullies, and social awkwardness. But he’s anything but typical when he begins having premonitions of tragic events. After he reveals his sixth sense to his police officer father, the two devise a plan to use his visions to stop criminals and hit the streets as a crime-fighting duo. Searching for answers as to why he’s developed psychic abilities, Dominic discovers a world that only exists in the history books and learns that his power has dangerous consequences.

When Detective Harry Shepherd stops a young teenager from throwing himself from the end of Blackpool pier, he has little idea that the world around him would change forever. As the boy scampers away, he vows to discover why the lad was so willing to die. However, Alex Hayden is no ordinary teenager, but one with an insight into the multiple murders that are occurring within the town. Sensing a loss within the soul of Detective Shepherd, he becomes embroiled in the search to stop the killer at the risk of exposing his own secret.

After witnessing the harrowing murder of his Dad, Jack vows to make something of his life and not follow the same violent path as his late father. He tries, but soon realizes that the apple does not fall far from the tree. Jack starts to turn things around and focus on his dream of becoming a professional football player, only to fall victim to a horrific attack that leaves him fighting for his life and unable to play football ever again.

David Diegert is ensnared into serving Crepusculous, the secret society that controls the economy. In spite of his reluctance, Diegert is coerced into completing deadly missions in which the stakes keep getting higher. Set up to take the fall for killing a target of immense importance, his fragile world falls apart. Betrayed by Crepusculous, he becomes a fugitive sought after from all sides. An unexpected ally is found in a CIA agent convinced of Diegert’s innocence. She helps him escape, only to force him into undermining Crepusculous’s plan for economic collapse.