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A Manhattan skip tracer's job takes a dangerous detour when he discovers his duplicitous wife has a double life. Lawrence Lariar was one the most popular cartoonists of the twentieth century. But from the 1940s through the 1960s, he also crafted a line of lean and mean detective and mystery novels under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Michael Stark, Adam Knight, Michael Lawrence, and Marston La France. Lariar now gets his due as a leading artist in hardboiled crime fiction. Steve McGrath's nerves are fraying. His job tracking ratty little fugitives is leading nowhere. His boss is a maggot. His wife, Gwen, is growing icy and hateful. Then he comes home to see her wrapped around a randy thug, a smirk on her pretty puss. Steve could just kill her. Somebody has, anyway. After a pub crawl to drink off his rage, Steve returns to find his wife colder than ever. Stabbed through the heart. Now she knows how it feels. But given a nasty marriage that was no mystery to neighbors, he's going to be the number one suspect. To clear his name, Steve treads the shadows of Gwen's secret life only to realize he married a stranger. In death, he's finally getting to know her—and it's going to be one dangerous awakening.

Washington insider Joe DeMarco returns in an electrifying thriller that will grab you with its “clever, original, fast-moving, and unpredictable plot” (Phillip Margolin, New York Times–bestselling author).Author of House Witness, 2019 Edgar Award Finalist for Best Novel Political fixer Joe DeMarco has handled plenty of difficult situations for his boss, congressman John Mahoney. But nothing has been so politically sensitive, or hit so close to home, as his current assignment. Mahoney's daughter has been arrested for insider trading. An engineer with a high-flying tech firm, she allegedly placed a half-million dollar bet on one of the firm's clients. DeMarco's job is to clear her name—and keep his boss's name clean in the process. But DeMarco discovers that Mahoney's daughter has gotten mixed up with some very wealthy and dangerous criminals who used her to make a quick fortune. And they aren't about to let DeMarco get in their way. Author Mike Lawson delivers a page-turning mystery full of “funny lines, fiendishly complicated plotting, and swiftly and sharply etched characters” that “make this installment one of the most enjoyable in the series” (Kirkus Reviews).