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James Swain
Full Series List in Order
Billy Cunningham
1 - Vegas Con (Feb-2015)2 - Bad Action (May-2016)
3 - Super Con (Dec-2017)
Lancaster & Daniels
1 - The King Tides (Aug-2018)2 - No Good Deed (Aug-2019)
3 - Bad News Travels (Aug-2020)
P.I. Jack Carpenter
1 - Midnight Rambler (May-2007)2 - The Night Stalker (Oct-2008)
3 - The Night Monster (Sep-2009)
4 - Program (Oct-2010)
Peter Warlock
1 - Dark Magic (May-2012)2 - Shadow People (Jun-2013)
A Tony Valentine Mystery
1 - Grift Sense (Jun-2001)2 - Funny Money (Jun-2002)
3 - Sucker Bet (Apr-2003)
4 - Loaded Dice (Jun-2004)
5 - Mr. Lucky (Mar-2005)
6 - Deadman's Poker (Apr-2006)
7 - Deadman's Bluff (Jun-2006)
7.5 - Wild Card (Oct-2010)
7.6 - Jackpot (Oct-2010)
Vincent Hardare
1 - The Man Who Walked Through Walls (Nov-1989)2 - The Man Who Cheated Death (Oct-2010)
Book List in Order: 23 titles
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Grift Sense
- Jun-2001
- / Private Investigator
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Amid the neon and the big special ugly of Las Vegas, mild-mannered Frank Fontaine is beating the brains out of the Acropolis Casino. The house cops think the dealer, a blonde named Nola, is part of the con, but no one can prove a thing. For Tony Vale...
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Funny Money
- Jun-2002
- / Private Investigator
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Tony Valentine has a gift for grift: He can walk into a casino and spot a cheater across a crowded floor. A man who still uses pay phones and won't spend more than a buck for coffee, Tony has protected Atlantic City gambling palaces for twenty years ...
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Sucker Bet
- Apr-2003
- / Private Investigator
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A hardened ex-cop, Tony Valentine now nabs hustlers who rob casinos, and the Micanopy Indian Reservation Casino in South Florida desperately needs his expertise. A blackjack dealer has rigged a game, dealt a player eighty-four winning hands in a row,...
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Loaded Dice
- Jun-2004
- / Private Investigator
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When Tony Valentine, a master at catching casino cheaters, jets to Las Vegas to look for his missing son, he lands in the middle of a dangerous turf war between rival casinos. Valentine's longtime pal then taps him to figure out how an amateur won $2...
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Deadman's Poker
- Apr-2006
- / Private Investigator
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Tony Valentine is an expert at spotting cheats. He's tossed them out of gambling casinos from Atlantic City to Las Vegas and Monaco. But though Tony has never met a scam he couldn't crack, his son and partner, Gerry, has just walked into one with a b...
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Deadman's Bluff
- Jun-2006
- / Private Investigator
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A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world's largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters wh...
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Midnight Rambler
- May-2007
- / Private Investigator
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A new breed of predator is stalking the steamy streets of South Florida: an ingenious serial killer as elusive as quicksilver, with a distinctive MO. He plays the Rolling Stones' "Midnight Rambler" while he tortures his victims. At all times this man...
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The Night Stalker
- Oct-2008
- / Private Investigator
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Hard-edged, evocative, brilliantly paced, James Swain's novels of crime and punishment in South Florida delve into a shadowy realm where criminals, victims, and cops share the same truths, the same lies, and sometimes even the same nightmares. Abb...
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The Night Monster
- Sep-2009
- / Private Investigator
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The shadowy side of the Sunshine State, where blood runs cold even in the tropical heat, is the tantalizing, terrifying territory few know better than James Swain. His razor-sharp tales of criminals, cops, and South Florida -- style suspense bite lik...
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The Man Who Cheated Death
- Oct-2010
- / Suspense
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From the bestselling novelist the New York Times calls a writer of “Ingenious Entertainments” comes a dazzling thriller pitting the world’s greatest magician against a deadly killer who calls himself Death.Can someone really predict the future?...
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Dark Magic
- May-2012
- / Horror
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Peter Warlock is a magician with a dark secret. Every night, he amazes audiences at his private theater in New York, where he performs feats that boggle the imagination. But his day job is just a cover for his otherworldly pursuits: Peter is a member...
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Shadow People
- Jun-2013
- / Horror
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In Shadow People, national bestselling author James Swain’s brilliant follow-up to Dark Magic, magician Peter Warlock has a dark secret. A psychic who peers into the future, he is able to use the information to alert the authorities to pending trou...
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Bad Action
- May-2016
- / Thriller
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Con artist Billy Cunningham is no stranger to the casinos of Las Vegas -- he’s ripped off every single one. But his latest scam -- a year in the making -- promises his crew their biggest payday yet. Billy has thought of everything down to the last ...
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The King Tides
- Aug-2018
- / Thriller
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Reality and illusion blur in this Washington Post bestseller that Michael Connelly calls “a hundred percent adrenaline rush disguised as a detective novel.” Nicki Pearl is the perfect daughter -- every parent’s dream. And that of strangers,...
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No Good Deed
- Aug-2019
- / Law Enforcement
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A human-trafficking case hits dangerously close to home in a heart-racing thriller by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The King Tides.
A disturbing missing-person case reunites ex-Navy SEAL Jon Lancaster and FBI Agent Beth Daniels. Sk...
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Bad News Travels
- Aug-2020
- / Law Enforcement
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Family secrets become a blackmailer’s deadly weapon in this pulse-pounding thriller by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of No Good Deed. The shocking suicide of Beth Daniels’s father -- a prominent surgeon -- has thrown the FBI agent into ...
