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"Hollywood, 1923. Having ascended into the pantheon of America's Most Wanted by dispatching his mortal foes to the holding pens where Cecil B. DeMille keeps his expendable extras, Irish bootlegger Rusty McGrew goes on the lam with the shimmering goddess Vanessa Hopgood, her enraptured swain Sir Archibald l'Estrange-B'stard, and Edward 'Bugs' Dooley, the hapless motion picture playwright who has stepped through the looking-glass into his very own Jazz Age adaptation of The Pilgrim's Progress."--Provided by publisher

After a tragic incident involving his best friend and his taxi, Harry Rigby, a former private investigator turned cab driver, becomes entangled in a web of crime and deceit. As he navigates the fallout from his friend's death, Harry confronts personal loss, including the death of his son, while uncovering a sinister world of property corruption, art forgery, and organized crime. The story reveals deeper secrets within a powerful family, forcing Harry to face the consequences of his past and the dangerous forces at play.

Who says crime doesn't pay? The perpetrators of a botched kidnap make their getaway in this hilarious sequel to The Big O Karen and Ray are on their way to the Greek islands to rendezvous with Madge and split the fat bag of cash they conned from her ex-husband Rossi when they kidnapped, well, Madge. But they've reckoned without Stephanie Doyle, the cop who can't decide if she wants to arrest Madge, shoot Rossi, or ride off into the sunset with Ray. And then there's Melody, the wannabe movie director, who's pinning all her hopes on Sleeps, the narcoleptic getaway driver who just wants to go back inside and do some soft time. A European road-trip screwball noir, Crime Always Pays features cops and robbers, losers and hopers, villains, saints - and a homicidal Siberian wolf called Anna. The Greek islands will never be the same again.

Karen and Ray are on their way to the Greek islands to rendezvous with Madge and split the fat bag of cash they conned from her ex-husband Rossi when they kidnapped, well, Madge. But they ve reckoned without Stephanie Doyle, the cop who can t decide if she wants to arrest Madge, shoot Rossi, or ride off into the sunset with Ray. And then there s Melody, the wannabe movie director, who s pinning all her hopes on Sleeps, the narcoleptic getaway driver who just wants to go back inside and do some soft time. A European road-trip screwball noir, Crime Always Pays features cops and robbers, losers and hopers, villains, saints and a homicidal Siberian wolf called Anna. The Greek islands will never be the same again."

Flashing with razor-sharp wit and edgy, face-paced plotting, Eightball Boogie is an enthralling page-turner.

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A postmodern crime thriller from one of Ireland's best crime fiction writers

Karen's easy life as a receptionist and armed robber is about to take a turn for the worse. Rossi, her ex, is getting out of prison any day now. He'll be looking for his motorcycle, his gun, the sixty grand he says is his, and revenge. But he won't be expecting Ray, the new guy Karen's just met, to be in his way. No stranger to the underworld himself, Ray wants out of the kidnapping game now that some dangerous new bosses are moving in. Meanwhile Frank, a disgraced plastic surgeon, hires Ray to kidnap his ex-wife for the insurance money. But the ex-wife also happens to be Karen's best friend. Can Karen and Ray trust each other enough to work together on one last job? Or will love, as always, ruin everything? From a writer hailed as "Elmore Leonard with a hard Irish edge" ("Irish Mail on Sunday"), Declan Burke's "The Big O "is crime fiction at its darkest and funniest.