Presenting crime & msytery novels from the Mystery Writers' of America Award-Winning author, PETER McCURTIN Action-thrillers featuring wise guys, made men, Mafia wars, extortionists, murderers, vice ... these novels has them all.

MINNESOTA STRIP
#4 in the Peter McCurtin Crime Chronicles

Private investigator Pete Shay was down on his luck—if he'd ever had any to begin with—so when a battered deck hand from Duluth named Thomas Jannssen offered him seven hundred dollars to track down his missing daughter, Shay agreed.

His search for the girl led him straight to that section of New York's 8th Avenue known as the Minnesota Strip, where teenage hookers and their pimps make the scene in a twilight world of booze, drugs, and violence.

Shay thought he'd seen every kind of depravity known to man.

It took this case to prove that he was wrong.

Published November 01, 2024. £1.99

THE SUNDANCE MURDERS
#3 in the Peter McCurtin Crime Chronicles

The time: 1970. The place: Arizona

Somewhere on the Navaho Reservation a war was set to break out. A war that would plunge the Southwest—eventually the whole country—into bloody chaos. Modern-day Ghost Dance Raiders dressed in the ancient costumes of the peyote cult, and armed with automatic weapons, staged swift, murderous, commando raids against isolated towns.

Berger was caught in the middle, on one side a sinister Indian radical leader, on the other a powerful neo-Fascist rancher with his own private army. Two beautiful girls threw themselves at Berger, and he wondered why. Berger was no ordinary reporter—he carried a gun—and he learned quickly that it wasn't nearly enough.

Published September 01, 2024. £1.99

ESCAPE FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND
#2 in the Peter McCurtin Crime Chronicles

The powerful story of desperate men and their dramatic struggle for life in the world's most brutal and infamous penal colony.

There is Boulanger, the Jolly Rapist, Mirandola, the towering Italian killer, perverted Radisson, one-eyed Giroux, sadistic Sergeant Ducharme. Above all, there is Gendron, the brawling ex-legionnaire they call The American.

Hating their sadistic guards, angry at the fatal insanities of the prison, the men divide among themselves. When the Nazi war in Europe reaches their tiny corner of Hell in French Guinea, each man must make his choice to submit or revolt.

In this Hell-on-Earth, the toughest men can suffer and endure. But even the toughest men can only take so much. And that is when they turn on their captors ...

Published May 01, 2024. £1.99

LOANSHARK
#1 in the Peter McCurtin Crime Chronicles

It was one of Pete Shay's stranger cases.

He'd set out to find the killer of a small-time hood, and the trail led straight to Fat Vinny, the meanest loanshark in New York. But then Fat Vinny himself hired Shay to continue his investigation in order to prove Vinny's innocence.

Shay knew that Vinny had never been innocent of anything in his life, but a client was a client, and Shay needed the money. He'd be up to his shoulder-holster in blood and bullets before this case was finished!



Published January 01, 2024. £1.99

OMERTA

All his life Collino had lived by the rules of Omerta ... the ancient Mafia Code of Silence. Like his father and grandfather before him, he had sworn the blood oath of allegiance to the Honored Society.

But it wasn't the threat of death than kept the Brooklyn capo loyal. The Mafia, the Family to which he belonged, was all he knew, or understood.

He had robbed and murdered for the Organization, but it always took care of its own. That was the rock on which Collino had built his life.

Then one bright summer day he found himself marked for death for something he didn't do. The most powerful Godfather of all the New York families had made a personal contract: to hit Collino!



Published October 01, 2023. £1.99

THE SYNDICATE

Mafia hit man James Broderick had to break into a fiercely defended old Irish castle to kill C. Alex Ritter, a neo-fascist who made Hitler look like a choir boy.

First Broderick had to get rid of Ritter's stooges, then a beautiful redhead who almost made him forget his mission.

The Mob figured Ritter was set to ruin its organization and that Broderick was the only man big enough and tough enough to kill him before he could.



Published July 01, 2023. £1.99

COSA NOSTRA

A bloody power struggle was boiling up inside the Mafia, with the Boston and Montreal mobs fighting over the state of Maine, the last open territory in the Northeast.

The Godfather heard both sides and decided Boston had first crack at the big takeover. But they had to make it fast or lose the whole bundle.

The boys picked out a town, Chapmans Corners, not much of a town but to get it they were ready to use anything --- bribery, blackmail, sex, murder. They came with money and guns, the ruthless force of Cosa Nostra behind them, and only one man even thought about stopping them.

Greeley, the cynical, hard-drinking crooked cop, had done some dirty things in his life, but there were limits ... and Greeley had just reached his.

Published April 01, 2023. £1.99

MAFIOSO

NAME: Nick Lanzetta. Born Brooklyn, N.Y. 1933.
OCCUPATION: Mafia soldier.
SPECIALITY: murder.
SKILLS: Expert with pistol, rifle, machine gun. Known to use an icepick, a length of piano wire, or his bare hands.
Arrested 17 times, twice for first degree homicide. No convictions since juvenile convictions for auto theft. He was only in his early thirties but he was head of a vast business empire. He was handsome and sophisticated, and he could be very dangerous when he wanted to be. He was married to a woman who was consistently unfaithful to him. Nobody knew why he stood for it, he certainly didn't have to....
A graduate of the old South Brooklyn gang called The Rangers, Lanzetta was admitted to membership in the Mafia under the sponsorship of Joseph Daniello, caporegime in the notorious DiSalvo Family. Since then, according to FBI reports, he has committed at least 40 murders, earning a reputation as the most feared killer on the east coast. Now 37, he thinks it's time he moved up in the Organization.

The savage, blood splattered story of Nick Lanzetta ... the man who wanted to become Godfather of The Syndicate.


Published February 01, 2023. Recommended Price: £1.99