Ace Long Island homicide detective Joe LaLuna investigates the murder of a rich businessman found dead in his bed and faces the possibility that his own ex-lover, Audie McKenna, might be a killer. Reprint.
Examines the lives of former childhood friends Jay Tasti, a school teacher, and Albert Niklozak, a thug with ties to organized crime, who grew up in a tough section of Long Island, called Duck Alley and how committed they are to sustaining their frie...
“COP, COP, LAWYER is DeFilippi’s most complex novel. It continues the story of Long Island homicide cop Joe LaLuna (BLOOD SUGAR). Joe is back from being dead, back from the Islands, back on the job, and still in love with his high school sweetie ...
Only two things keep EVERYDAY MALFEASANCE from being a crime novel like Jim’s other books -- it’s not about crime and it isn’t a novel.Rather, it is a collection on potentially humorous essays, incidents, very short stories, vignettes -- each o...
Aging Vermont farmer Warren Lareaux refuses to give up any piece of his land or of his life -- not for love, not for family, not for the law. His brother Ty represents all three of these forces. The two men are thrown into a deadly battle that neithe...
It's 1966. Truman Capote has just published his crime masterpiece IN COLD BLOOD. Queens, New York, reporter Vincenzo Jimmy Spacone stalks a story that will either glorify his reputation or crucify his soul....
On June 24, 1973, the UpStairs Lounge -- a crowded gay bar in New Orleans’ French Quarter -- was fire-bombed. Thirty-two people died in the greatest mass murder of gay men in history. Yet this seminal event in the story of American crime was little...
One year in a small town in upstate New York. Three women are destroyed either physically or emotionally. The damage spreads to their families, their friends, lovers, the perpetrators, and even to strangers.Jim DeFilippi’s novels have been called...
You’ll meet a deranged chicken, a killer duck who demands butter, a fifteen-year-old boy who loses his virginity and spends the rest of his life looking for it, an itinerant dental floss salesman, a vampire having his first sex in over a thousand y...
Annah Torch, ever beautiful and ever brutal, must save her kid sister from the tentacles of a psychotic racist, and then in turn save herself. VERMILLION TO ONE. A blood-knuckled crime story told in poetic form....