Bøger udgivet af P. J. Mann

When a jeweler uncovers the secret behind his jinxed inventory, will assassins put him permanently out of business?Edward Sherwood understands the irresistible appeal of cursed gems. Capitalizing on the psychology of superstition, he specializes in keepsakes said to have brought their owners to a bad end. But when he outbids the Russian mob to acquire a particularly interesting ruby, he finds himself in the crosshairs of a deadly hit squad.Escaping the country with the help of a former Bratva henchman, Edward quickly sells the stone to shed the heat. But when the buyer meets with a mysterious accident, the unscrupulous gemologist comes face to face with an obsessive policeman determined to prove he's connected to similar deaths.Has Edward's ominous business provoked a curse he can't escape?Merchant of Pearls is a spellbinding standalone crime thriller. If you like shady characters, dark twists and turns, and supernatural mysteries, then you'll love P. J. Mann's gritty tale. Buy Merchant of Pearls to appraise danger today!

A cryptic message. A series of murders. Can detective Scala stop the killer before the killer stops him?Rome, Italy. Detective Maurizio Scala has sworn to protect the citizens of his city and deliver justice to the victims of crimes. So when a young man was found dead in a cemetery with a note mentioning his dark secrets, Scala knew he would find no peace until justice ran its course.As the stubborn detective digs deeper into the victim''s life, other, seemingly unconnected murders begin to reveal a tangled web of lies and corruption.Will Scala be able to identify the killer before more victims will fall?

Problems are part of our everyday life, but some of us seem to spiral deeper into misery and danger.Julius is - without a shadow of a doubt - one such man. Grappling with low esteem, overwhelming nicotine addiction, and a complicatedrelationship with an overbearing father, he feels like he's losing a grip on his life, and resorts to fleeing to Boston.When he finds himself in the studio of the eminent psychiatrist, Dr. Wright, Julius feels like he's got the solution to all his problems at hand, and regardless of his initial hesitations, he agrees to leave for therapy to get rid of his addiction by going to in an isolated resort.When Detective Bochorishvili of Tbilisi Police Department and his cousin Lieutenant Avaliani of the Bureau of the Investigative Services in Boston start to reconsider an old case involving a patient of Dr. Wright, the web of shadows spreads from the Georgian capital to Boston, and begins to whirl in a vortex around the figure of Dr. Wright. Little do any of them know that the spider's web of lies, deceit, murder, and mystery is closing in from all sides, and it won't be long before the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place.Suspicions rise and fall, spies lurk in the darkness, and mysteries call out to be solved before more individuals meet their fate at the ambitious hands of evil. Closing the trilogy The Devil's Deal will bring to light a question; will justice triumph, or will it be another Deadly Deception?

Something keeps Laura Jefferson up at night. Maybe it’s the Boston traffic, maybe the sounds of the city outside her apartment window, maybe the stresses of day to day life. Whatever it is, when she’s offered a radical treatment at a secluded hotel, she doesn’t even hesitate.But while the hotel is perfect, the grounds idyllic, and Dr Wright and his staff friendly and eager to help, it isn’t long before Laura’s fellow patients begin acting strangely, some even dropping out of the program altogether, disappearing into the night. As Laura loses chunks of time, a detective arrives, and the questions at the heart of the hotel begin to unravel.Continuing the trilogy, Deadly Deception - Insomniac - draws closer to the mystery of Dr. Wright’s research, and the lies behind Laura’s perfect night of sleep.