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Murder Beyond the Milky way earns every word of its five-star reviews. It takes the hard-boiled noir detective tradition and transplants it into the outer reaches of space. On the most isolated planet in the explored universe an elite member of one of the five corporations that control all of...

Outlaw Bikers, strippers, murder. When you hang around a strip club run by bikers, you have to play by their rules.

Murray Rule, an exclusive New York lawyer with only one client, the powerful MECU union, is murdered on steps to his Upper West Side town house. The police consider it a mugging gone badly. But Murray's "facilitator" , a good friend of his from their childhood in the Bronx, doesn't buy it, so he sets out to find the person or persons responsible for Murray's murder.

In 1863, General James A. Longstreet asks his trouble shooter, Captain William Wallace, to investigate a murder. The investigation leads Captain Wallace across the south in the search of an apparent serial killer.

Here are three crime stories in an historical setting. All of them have been inspired by a true incident and their settings have been rigorously researched to give you the sense of being there in 1854, 1863 and 1872. From Richmond, Virginia, at the height of the American Civil War to the dry Southwest riding along with John Wesley Hardin and Wild Bill Hickok, you are there.

A little tree growing in a rock learns how to come to terms with being different from the other trees and earns the all the animals respect for doing what he said he would do.