Stephen J. Cannell

When confidence man Beano is caught cheating at cards, Mafia boss Joe beats him so badly that he nearly dies. In revenge Beano teams up with a woman prosecutor--she is out to get Joe--and together they play a con game that will set other gangsters against Joe and put him away. By the author of Final Victim.

"Lita Mendez was a thorn in the LAPD's side. An aggressive police critic and gang activist, she'd filed countless complaints against the department. So when she's found dead in herhome, Detective Scully and his partner Hitchens fear the worst: that there's a killer in their ranks. Outside the crime scene, Nixon Nash and his television crew have set up shop. Nash is the charismatic host of a hit reality show called Vigilante TV, dedicated to beating...

Leaving L. A. 's Parker Center, Shane Scully and his wife, Alexa, agree to meet at home in one hour. Shane gets there; Alexa doesn't. In the middle of the night, he's called to a crime scene on Mulholland Drive: The African-American victim, who appears to be a Crip gangbanger, has been executed gangland style. Shockingly, the body is in Alexa's car and her gun is found nearby. But Alexa is missing. Shane's frantic investigation into his wife's disappearance...

Investigating a triple murder at a Hollywood Hills mansion where another killing took place twenty-five years earlier, Detective Shane Scully and his new partner, Hitch, find the open-and-shut case complicated by the discovery of a spent bullet casing that does not match other evidence.

Scully, who grew up as an orphan, must revisit his painful childhood to find out who murdered his charismatic mentor and onetime father figure. It takes him up against an unexpected adversary whose power and influence far exceed anything he could have imagined.

It's two Shane Scully novels in one from bestselling author Stephen J. Cannell: The Tin Collectors and Viking Funeral If Detective Shane Scully's best friend, Jody Dean, committed suicide three years ago, then who did Shane just see for one fleeting moment on the Ventura Freeway? He's convinced it was his former colleague. Or was his mind playing tricks? Shane's lover, Alexa Hamilton, herself a lauded LAPD officer, happens to think so. But Shane...

Detective Shane Scully fights to save a man railroaded for murder, while he struggles to save his marriage.

TV producer Ryan Bolt is hired to do a documentary on a Rhode Island governor, a fast-rising candidate in a U.S. presidential election. He discovers the man is financed by the Mafia which is buying up TV time everywhere as part of a plot to have its man in the White House, a discovery that puts his life in danger. A first novel by a TV scriptwriter who wrote The Commish.

A dot.com millionaire's obsession with a young married woman spirals homicidally out of control, leading to the destruction of everything he holds dear.