by Kris Rusch | Mar 18, 2014
Street Justice:
A Smokey Dalton Novel
Kris Nelscott
In the first week of the new decade, an emergency phone call shatters Chicago Private Detective Smokey Dalton’s hopes for a good 1970. His adopted son Jimmy and Jimmy’s best friend and cousin Keith Grimshaw need help.
Smokey arrives at a South Side hotel across from the boys’ school in time to clean up a horrible mess, one the boys mostly solve on their own. But the boys’ heroic actions echo across all of Chicago. Smokey finds himself standing alone against street gangs, the mob, and the Democratic Machine.
If he fights this battle and fails, he stands to lose not only Jimmy and their future together, but also his life.
A finalist for the 2015 Shamus Award for Best Original Paperback P.I. Novel by the Private Eye Writers of America.
“Easy comparisons can be made to Dave Robicheaux, Spenser, and Easy Rawlins, but Smokey is his own man. Women want to be near him and cook his dinner as he settles his nerves with three fingers of Scotch. A great read for fans of detectives guarding an inner city’s grimy streets.”
–Library Journal
by Kris Rusch | Mar 12, 2014
Bring Me the Head of Anne Boleyn
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Before her twenty-fifth year, she was both a princess and a prisoner, a royal daughter and the daughter of a traitor. Now Elizabeth Tudor has become queen of England and, in her private moments, cannot quite believe she survived. She has to figure out how to rule, but first she must reclaim her past, and to do that, she must find the last thing her mother ever gave her—a ruby ring in the shape of a falcon.
“Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s crime stories are exceptional, both in plot and in style.”
by Kris Rusch | Mar 12, 2014
Burial Detail
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The battle ended ten months ago, the war ended two weeks ago, and still the battleground remains a dangerous place—at least for one man. A man who sees everything, and can say nothing. A man no one else notices, a man who must bury the dead in order to remain among the living.
“Like early Ray Bradbury, Rusch has the ability to switch on a universal dark.”
by Kris Rusch | Mar 11, 2014
Improvements
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
As a Medieval woman, Maude knows her place. But her husband’s death shortly after the birth of their son means she must fulfill his duties until their son comes of age.
But when a woman appears on her doorstep bloodied and broken, Maude must decide how far she will go to protect her son’s estate. Will she follow the dictates of her time, or will she find a strength she didn’t know she possessed?
“Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s crime stories are exceptional, both in plot and in style.”
by Kris Rusch | Mar 6, 2014
Kuchen
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Lawyer F. Reed Hamlin has everything—money, success, a small amount of fame. But he doesn’t have close relationships. He doesn’t have family. Until he hears on the news that police have caught a Vietnam protester who bombed a munitions site. An anti-war radical who has hidden for twenty years. An anti-war radical who just happens to be Reed’s mother.
“Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s crime stories are exceptional, both in plot and in style.”
