Savvy forensic accountant Alabaster Black is hiding in Rome from her former employer, covert U.S. organization “Rendition.” While there under an assumed name she meets Dante, an investigator, erstwhile explorer and member of the Roma Underground, a band of amateur archaeologists who map the city beneath Rome. With Italian artifacts disappearing at an alarming rate, Alabaster and Dante search for answers and create a trap for the thieves. Through a mysterious online contact Alabaster learns she is being followed, and with her safety at risk she is forced to rethink her chosen alliances and discover hidden truths about herself.

Roma, Underground (Roma Series)

Valjan, Gabriel

Literature & Fiction

Winter Goose Publishing

In the highly anticipated sequel to Roma, Underground, Bianca returns to the U.S. for her former employer, the covert organization Rendition, to investigate Cyril Sargent and Nasonia Pharmaceutical. Although ambivalent about the assignment and uneasy about her online "friend," Loki, she is enticed into researching what Sargent is doing with insect genetics that might upset the world of cancer research and treatment. Old friends Farrugia and Gennaro uncover a twisted conspiracy from their past and join Bianca in Boston where they will experience conflicted loyalties, question allies, and confront uncertain enemies, as they're drawn into the wasp's nest.

Wasp's Nest

A secret file.A murdered student.A repeat of a dark chapter of Italian history.The brilliant analyst Alabaster Black, alias Bianca Nerini, is happy to be back in Italy, back with her love, Dante, but then her curiosity gets the better of her and leads to a meeting in a café in Milan...a meeting that results in the death of young university student Charlie Brooks, who leaves her with a secret file detailing the development of a new weapon that violates international law. Burdened by guilt, she seeks justice for Charlie. Things go from bad to worse: Dante is angry at her because she told him nothing about the meeting, a scandal-mongering journalist is trying to crucify her friend Farrugia, blaming him for Charlie's death, and even her contact Loki is warning her to stay away from the case, because it involves not just a secret weapon, but political intrigues and powerful corporate alliances, too, as well as the organization Bianca is desperately trying to escape: Rendition. The stakes are higher than ever, and Bianca and her trusted friends will have to find their way through these murky waters, or watch Italy return to the decades of daily terrorism known as the Years of Lead.The third book in the Roma Series will take you on the darkest journey so far, the journey where, if you can't thread the needle...Everything and everyone you care about will be lost.

Threading the Needle

Product Description Shane Cleary is living a comfortable life. He has money. He has a girl. But a visit from a friend shakes up his status quo. Chess may be the metaphor, but the case is one that lifts the lid on problems nobody in Boston wants to talk about. Murder. Race. Class. It's all Hush Hush. Neither the crime nor the verdict is simple, and yet it is Black and White. Shane will need more than a suit of armor if he wants to play knight. Can Justice be found? And at what cost? Review "HUSH HUSHis filled with biting wisdom, savory dialogue, and the authentic flavor of 70's Boston."-Cheryl Head, author of the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series. "Boston. Dodgy cops. Class. Race. Murder. It's all here, and there's enough grit on the pages to grind your teeth down. Loved it."-Tracy Clark, Sue Grafton Memorial Award-winning author of the highly acclaimed Chicago Mystery series. "HUSH HUSH is brutally honest, stunning and thoroughly engaging. When it comes to exciting and provocative mysteries, Valjan is the real deal!"-Stephen Mack Jones, Hammett Prize, Nero Award-winning author of the August Snow series "With compelling characters, sharp prose and wit, and a slew of historical facts, this clever and twisty mystery's topic is as poignant today as it was then."-Marco Carocari, author of Blackout "Crisply written and richly detailed, it's 70's Boston where race, class, and the dark secrets fuel the deadliest of deceptions. Despite the title, people will be talking about HUSH HUSH. Highly recommended."-James L'Etoile, author of Black Label, At What Cost, and Bury the Past. "With clear and unflinching prose, [HUSH HUSH] brings a voice to issues of race and class through compelling and honest characters."-Meredith Doench, author of the Luce Hansen Thriller series   "Precise and powerful...written in vivid, unforgettable prose."-Lori Robbins, author of the On Pointe Mystery series About the Author Gabriel Valjan lives in Boston's South End. He is the author of the Roma Series and Company Files (Winter Goose Publishing) and the Shane Cleary series (Level Best Books). His second Company File novel, The Naming Game, was a finalist for the Agatha Award for Best Historical Mystery and the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 2020. Gabriel is a member of the Historical Novel Society, International Thriller Writer (ITW), and Sisters in Crime.

Hush Hush: A Shane Cleary Mystery

Historia

Liar's Dice: A Shane Cleary Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Level Best Books

The Big Lie: A Shane Cleary Mystery

Level Best - Historia

The Good Man: The Company Files

'Better Dead than Red' isn't the byline to Charlie Loew's latest movie. 
Charlie Loew is an alleged Communist, a script doctor, and dead. 
Divided loyalties are the norm, paranoia is healthy, and everyone has dirt on someone else in Tinseltown by day, and Babylon by night. 
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and the CIA aka the Company race to decipher the cryptic piece of paper found in the dead man's pocket. Walker is sent undercover as a screenwriter into a major studio. His 'colleague' Leslie becomes the secretary to Dr. Phillip Ernest, the shrink to the stars, who might be doing more than mending fragile psyches. Chief Parker of the LAPD doesn't like strangers in town, and the ruthless Roy Cohn will cut a deal with anyone who will play the naming game.

The Naming Game: The Company Files

Thrillers & Suspense

An anti-mafia judge is assassinated.The Camorra and the Sicilian mafia might be working together.A brilliant young sociologist holds the answers... And hides a secret.After the assassination of an anti-mafia judge on the streets of Naples, ex-Rendition analyst Alabaster Black/Bianca Nerini faces a mystery: why did women on motorcycles carry out a typical Camorra ambush?As it turns out, this case is something the former forensic accountant understands very well: a financial crime, or, more specifically, a counterfeiting operation so large it might disrupt the global economy, and involves not just the Camorra, but the Sicilian mafia, too, with theirmysterious leader.Fast-paced and filled with mystery, intrigue, and unexpected twists, the fourth book in the Roma Series will take you even deeper into financial deals, organized crime, and test the friendship, love, and loyalty within Bianca's inner circle.

Turning to Stone

Dirty Old Town: A Shane Cleary Mystery

Dames of Detection, Inc. DBA Level Best Books

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