murderers

Private detective Charlie Parker returns in this story of assassins who have targeted one of their own.

Anthology of poems about the deadly art of murder, which ranges from old Scottish ballads to hard-boiled 20th-century noir and includes depictions of colorful villains and victims as immortalized by such writers as Browning, Hardy, and Auden.

"Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds--especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It's the perfect location for Lester Olsen's lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides--and then he teaches them how to kill. Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where his top investigation firm has its headquarters. But a hunt for two criminals leads him to the city of sin--and to a murder ring that is more seductively threatening than anything he's witnessed before"--Provided by publisher.

Chronicles the events surrounding the trial and hanging of Charles Miller, a fifteen-year-old boy who, in September, 1890, shot and killed two young men in a box car headed for Wyoming.

In 1955, Florence Police Department investigator Serafina Bettini looks into the murders of the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage that, in 1943, found their estate taken over by the Nazis and turned into their prison; and, as she gets deeper into the case, Serafina learns details about the pasts of the victims and her own tragic history.