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Mike Romeo is an ex-cage fighter living off the grid in LA. Running from a dark guilt that dogs him, he's finally found a place where he can rest and even heal. Then a church blows up. And with it all of Romeo's hopes to be left alone. When he stops to help an injured woman whose kids are missing, someone decides to put a target on his back.

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. In the wake of Chicago Noir, Twin Cities Noir, and Kansas City Noir - all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series - comes the latest Midwest installment, St. Louis Noir. Masterfully curated by Scott Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest (adapted for film, starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton), this volume will chill the listener with heartland menace.

A man shoots his young wife to death. He drives to a freeway overpass, gets out, shoots himself, and drops 100 feet to the freeway below, crushing a Toyota Camry. Inside is an elementary school teacher named Jacqueline Dwyer, who dies at the scene. Ty Buchanan is a hotshot lawyer. Jacqueline Dwyer was the woman he was going to marry. Ty goes into a tailspin. And it gets worse when a mysterious man finds him at the funeral and says Jacqueline's death may not have been an accident after all.

When a dying millionaire hires Lucius Anoraq to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Anoraq finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.

A kidnapping case leads Kaiser Wrench into a 14-year-old mystery and the sights of the most diabolical killer the clawed private eye has ever faced.

Kaiser Wrench’s voluptuous, long-lost love and lynx is alive and targeted by the infamous assassin known as the Chimera.

Playing protector to a runaway puppy-faced poodle, Kaiser Wrench trades barbs and lead with crooked politicos, snarling hoods, and a sex-hungry female.

The doe was desperate, terrified, and out of her mind. Now she’s dead. Acting as an avenging angel, Private Detective Kaiser Wrench heads into an underground urban nightmare.

He was a nice cheetah. Now he's dead. Kaiser Wrench suspects murder, while the cops are calling it a suicide. Without a license or a gun, Wrench is pushing his way through a swirl of sex-and-game clubs, high priced models, and not just a little blackmail. Someone is working hard to frame Wrench and he’s working hard to find out why. Everywhere he turns, he keeps coming up against a beautiful tigress named Viola. She holds the key to the crime wave that could unlock the mystery behind the nice cheetah’s murder...

Private Detective Kaiser Wrench comes to the rescue of a prostitute. The next day, the papers say she’s dead from a hit and run. Her missing ring is the only thing he has to go on that proves she was murdered.

Kaiser is a dangerous tiger to call "friend". But, if you're murdered, he will avenge your death. Join him in the next four cases.

Private Detective Kaiser Wrench is a dangerous tiger to have as a friend, but he will avenge your death. Follow Kaiser as he prowls the streets of New York in the first five volumes of this series: I, the Tribunal; My Claws Are Quick; Retribution Is Mine!; A Solitary Evening; and The Great Slay.

They might be cold-blooded, but they get the job done. Join these four Lizards in finding out who-done-it before they become a pair of boots. This collection includes Scarlet Crop, The Lamarre Curse, The Persian Penguin, The Crystal Screw, and The Lean Male.

When an inventor’s secretary is murdered, everyone assumes Mick will take the case because he knows the accused. Why won't the squirrel come out of hiding and talk to the police? Everyone who knows anything does nothing but lie. If not for his wife's taste for adventure, Mick would wash his hands of the whole affair.

Monitor lizard, Horace Avraham, has always steered his best friend and boss in the right direction. Only this time, the pit bull is ignoring his advice. Victor Lenox is a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspires to something better: the daughter of Senator Jared Wilson Vale, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebred Dalmatians. Does he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Lenox is innocent, which of his dozens of enemies is doing an awfully good job of framing him? Can Avraham solve the puzzle in time, or will the next stop be the gas chamber?

Private detective Dean Diamond and his partner, Simon Mills, are hired by the beautiful Mrs. Lavender to track down her sister’s brutish boyfriend, Lenny King. Diamond is dubious, but the pair take the case, and when both Mills and King wind up in body bags within 24 hours, Diamond realizes that there is far more to this case than Lavender had let on.

The lizard, known only as the Mainland Detective, investigates a theft of diamonds only to uncover a tangled web of lies and murder seemingly connected to a family curse. The lizard can’t get away from Odette Wembley because every time he solves one issue, another arises.

In case his blue eyes aren't enough, Lucius Anoraq carries a gun. He wouldn't be caught dead in a pure breed show, but one wrong move and he'll be a blue ribbon corpse. Follow Lucius as he sniffs around Hollywood in the last three volumes of the series: The Wee Sibling, The Lengthy Farewell, and Recap.

Lucius Anoraq is getting paid to follow the mysterious and lovely canary, Sheila De Havilland. And wherever the canary goes, trouble seems to follow. Anoraq’s happy to do as he’s told, all in the name of chivalry. But one dead body later, and what started out as a lazy afternoon’s snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identity, and murder.

Lucius Anoraq befriends a Labrador who is a down-on-his-luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Robert Herriot has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. Now Herriot is on the lam, and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Anoraq.