Bøger af Steve Liskow

Anywhere else, fifteen will get you twenty. Along the turnpike, fifteen will get you dead. When beautiful fifteen-year-old Stacy Kendall disappears, her wealthy parents hire Hartford PI Zach Barnes to find her. Barnes fears that the girl is dead...until a brunette who looks like her shows up in a security video outside a sleazy motel room. Inside that room, a man lies dead. Overnight, Stacy turns from a kidnap victim to a murder suspect-and her parents' worst nightmare. To save the girl, Barnes invades a thriving trade in teen sex-trafficking, blackmail, and murder. Getting in is easy. Now he has to get back out.

Rising singer Sadie Hawk hires Detroit PI "Woody" Guthrie and his partner Eleanor "Shoobie" Dube to prove that a record produce raped her three years earlier. She gives them names of other singers who might confirm her story, but two of them die within days before Guthrie and Shoobie can question them. At the same time, Valerie Karr, their former receptionist and now a police cadet, faces constant harassment from her misogynistic partner.When Shoobie is beaten and assaulted and Valerie and her partner answer the call, it changes all the rules. Everyone has to figure out where the line is between justice and revenge--and what happens when you cross it.

FINALIST FOR THE SHAMUS AWARD FOR BEST INDIE PI NOVEL 2015Lying, cheating, stealing, dealing...dying.When guidance counselor Terry Wright dies in a freak accident, he leaves a flash drive for PI Zach Barnes. Barnes finds files showing that someone at Wright's posh private school is lying, some students are cheating, someone may be stealing, and someone else is definitely dealing. Before he can figure out who's doing what, Wright's fiancée dies, too. Coincidence? Yeah, right.Teachers, staff, and students all know Barnes has those files-and one of them has already killed twice. Barnes battles the clock, a blizzard, and human interference to unmask the killer before he becomes victim number three.

Darkness creeps into the motor city...Detroit homicide detective Eleanor "Shoobie" Dube pursues a killer who leaves his victims in abandoned buildings throughout the city. When builders uncover a skeleton, Shoobie tentatively identifies the remains as Megan Traine's long vanished aunt. Meg turns to her long-time companion, Detroit PI Chris "Woody" Guthrie, for help.To help Meg, Guthrie puts the ugly divorce he's investigating on hold. Then the couple's daughter Shannon flees from her parent's warfare and meets a disturbed young man who knows every hiding place in the area. Now, Guthrie, Shoobie, and Megan race to find the girl before darkness claims yet another victim.

Diane Ramsey has a wealthy husband, a beautiful home, two lovely children - and a blackmailer. She turns to Hartford PI Zach Barnes for help, but the damning photographs keep showing up in her mail. All she can tell Barnes is, "That isn't me."Barnes follows a 25-year-old trail of abuse and deceit to the secrets Diane doesn't even know she keeps, and the monster who still pulls her strings...and will kill to keep it that way.

On Monday, Principal Peter Galvin welcomes the committee that will evaluate Ribicoff High School for accreditation-just as someone guns down a student outside the main entrance.On Tuesday, homicide cop Abigail Teague tells him she fears that the shooting will incite a gang war. On Wednesday, student teacher Kim Dombrowik finds drugs in a student's locker, and there's a riot in the school cafeteria.Thursday really sucks.And the evaluation committee won't leave until Friday...The novel follows a principal, a student teacher and a female homicide detective on their journeys through the minefields of poverty, racism, and local politics to find a killer and stave off a full-scale gang war. While Laura Lippman's To The Power of Three and Jody Picoult's Nineteen Minutes have also dealt with a school shooting, Liskow, a former teacher, is the first to look at how such tragic events impact the teachers and students who inhabit the building and how the tragedy will change everyone who is involved, sometimes for the better, but usually for the worse.

A widow, a car thief, a nanny, a mob boss and a pregnant stripper walk into a bar...The car thief stole a car with the widow's dead husband in the trunk, and the cops found his fingerprints on the rearview mirror. A female homicide cop (whose husband has left her) and a lifeguard join the crew at the bar. The private eye hired to clear the car thief of murder learns that the dead man was embezzling-but where's the money? And why did he buy an expensive electric guitar he never played?The widow was cheating on her husband before he died, so now it looks like she had a motive for wanting him dead: the dead man fathered the stripper's baby.Now things start to get weird.

Bad exes make bad clients.Years ago, Sarah McKinnon dumped Chris Guthrie and moved hundreds of miles away for a new job and, eventually, a new husband. Soon after that, Guthrie nearly lost his leg in a shoot-out that cost him his job as a Detroit cop.Now Sarah's new husband is in trouble and she wants her PI ex- to get him out of it. Against his better judgment-and that of his new companion Megan Traine-Guthrie flies east, where he and Megan find Sam Henderson accused of killing his mistress. He has a motive, the opportunity, a weak alibi, and maybe the murder weapon-which has disappeared. When they dig deeper, they find an even more damning motive.Unfortunately, someone else has found it, too.

For a romance writer, murder is the ultimate kiss-off...In Who Wrote The Book of Death? someone wants to finish off the writer instead of the book. When PI Zach Barnes agrees to protect a woman from death threats, he assumes that her name isn't really Taliesyn Holroyd. Unfortunately, he also assumes she really is writing a novel. She assumes that he's stopped drinking after his own wife's murder.What else they don't know could bury them both along with the book.

Family: can't live with them, can't kill them.Caitlin Devers dropped out of college to marry a wealthy widower twice her age. When he died, her two step-children-her own age-accused her of killing him for his millions. Now someone is stalking her stepdaughter Joan, and she turns to Hartford PI Zach Barnes for help.Barnes finds a family full of scars that even money can't heal, but no proof that the stalker really exists-until someone kills Joan's boyfriend. When someone tries to kill Adam, the stepson, too, Barnes knows it can't be a coincidence, and that the man who isn't there is getting closer all the time.

A Slash From the PastTrish Straithorne hires Hartford PI Zach Barnes to check the background of her band's webmaster Jack Fisher-who also happens to be her lover. Barnes discovers Fisher was the prime suspect in the killing of his fiancée and her entire family, but the police couldn't prove he did it. Five years later, the case is still open.That cold case heats up when Barnes discovers the police case file lacks crucial details-including rape and possible drug trafficking-and other suspects the cops should have questioned. Who removed those names, and why? And what will they do when Barnes keeps asking those questions?

In 1991, Jeremy Garth and Thunder Lizzard were poised to become Detroit's Next Big Thing. They went into the studio to cut the album that would make it all happen. Then Garth turned up dead in his car and took the unfinished album and the band with him.Now Re-Run Records hires Chris "Woody" Guthrie to find those lost session tapes for a memorial CD, and Guthrie finds that all is not peace and harmony in the Motor City. Three other people from that ill-fated session are also dead. Another is missing. All the cases are still open.Talk about Number One with a bullet...

An out-of-work couple puts the bang back into their marriage.A sexy pool hustler finds love in all the wrong places.A rock star discovers that the song does NOT remain the same. A blind man takes advantage of his pistol permit.Steve Liskow's short stories run the gamut from funny to heart-breaking to chilling. This collection includes "Stranglehold," the Black Orchid Novella Award winner that introduced his Detroit PI Chris "Woody" Guthrie.

The Roller Girls are back...Someone kidnaps Ginger Slap's husband at a roller derby practice, and teammates Annabelle Lector, Tina G. Wasteland and Brenda Scarr join forces with Hartford Cops Tracy "Trash" Hendrix and Jimmy Byrne to get him back.Ginger's husband was running for Mayor of Hartford on a strong law and order platform, but when she pays the ransom, the money disappears under the noses of the cops and their FBI back-up. Then someone tries to kill Ginger, the same day the cops learn her husband planned a trip to Vegas-but not with her. Trash & Byrne, as the girls call them, know most of the rules have gone out the window, but the roller girls' mantra is "hit somebody," and it's going to happen hard, fast, and often.

GROWING UP IS HARD TO DOIt's 1965 and the Beatles have turned pop music upside down. In the South, the Civil Rights movement is gathering momentum behind Martin Luther King. In Vietnam, the war is heating up. And in Ojibway, Michigan, cheerleader Susie Porter accuses her algebra teacher of rape. Attorney Joseph Daniels, unaware that his son Robbie has loved Susie since grade school, agrees to defend the teacher. His decision thrusts Robbie into a world he never dreamed existed. Part To Kill a Mockingbird, part American Graffiti, Postcards of the Hanging is the story of a young man discovering that life is never simple and that truth is often painful.

The Whammer Jammers: chicks on wheels, dirty deals, and everything you never dared ask about roller derby. Suspended after a "questionable" shooting, Hartford cop Tracy "Trash" Hendrix hires on to protect the local skaters from vandals while they prepare for a match to fund a women's shelter. He suspects a skater's ex-boyfriend, but the guy has an alibi when that shelter gets torched-and an even better one when he turns up dead. Then a skater is killed in a drive-by, and Hendrix knows someone plays rougher than the roller girls. Unless he can figure out who it is before the match begins, the wheels really will come off.