Rex Kusler

A Las Vegas Mystery

Punctured (Jun-2011)
Ashes to Dust (Aug-2011)
Desert Drop (Apr-2012)
Snow Adrift (Aug-2013)

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  Angela
  

  • Feb-2010
  • / General Fiction
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  Life can be a game of Russian roulette with the Grim Reaper where timing and luck may play a major role in determining fate. Johnny Buck doesn’t understand this. He’s an impetuous kid with a suicidal father who suddenly wants Johnny and his mothe...

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  Punctured
  

  • Jun-2011
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Las Vegas Mystery
  

  Jim Snow and his sister Karen have never been very close. In fact, they haven’t seen each other since their mother’s funeral two years ago, despite living just three miles apart. But then Snow gets a panicked phone call from Karen telling him tha...

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  Ashes to Dust
  

  • Aug-2011
  • / Suspense
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  A Las Vegas Mystery
  

  Since first joining forces in Punctured, Alice James and Jim Snow have been a great -- if odd -- crime-fighting team. He’s a forty-something former Las Vegas homicide detective who quit the force to become a full-time poker player. She’s a model-...

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  Desert Drop
  

  • Apr-2012
  • / Mystery
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  A Las Vegas Mystery
  

  Private investigator and former homicide detective Alice James was just six months old when her father, Leon Stapper, abandoned his family. Forty years later, Alice has convinced herself she’s over it -- until her half sister, Corina, calls her up ...

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  Family
  

  • Feb-2013
  • / Mystery
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  Every family has its skeletons in the closet, but Shane Hall’s relatives? They’ve got a cemetery’s worth. Yet when he loses his job and gets evicted, Shane’s only option is to rely on his estranged aunt and cousins for help. He returns to his...

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  Snow Adrift
  

  • Aug-2013
  • / Mystery
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  A Las Vegas Mystery
  

  Former Las Vegas homicide detective Jim Snow’s luck has been going from bad to worse, spurred by a series of rash decisions and a quickly developing mid-life crisis. He quit the force a few years ago to play poker for a living and has been losing s...

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  Sinker
  

  • Dec-2013
  • / Mystery
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  Former Las Vegas Homicide Detective Jim Snow has found himself in a tenuous position with his partner Alice James. She’s the other half of their Private Eye firm James & James and she’s back in her hometown tending to her sick mother and contempl...

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  Smashed
  

  • Jul-2014
  • / Thriller
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  Private eyes Jim Snow and Alice James are baffled by their new client, Cassie Lane, a buxom casino slot technician who hires them to investigate the murder of her ex-lover, Billy Ryan. Billy, a professional horseplayer, has been shot outside his h...

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  Plunge
  

  • Aug-2014
  • / Private Investigator
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  Alice James and Jim Snow are back together working on a new case while trying to resolve their personal differences. This investigation is focused on a recently retired jockey who was stabbed and thrown off the roof of a parking garage after an argum...

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  Last Hand
  

  • Feb-2015
  • / Private Investigator
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  Tracy Green was a master at playing the odds. A professional stock trader, she made extra money as the head of a team of card counters. They had remained under the radar for years, operating shrewdly six times each year during the busiest holidays. B...

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  Rekindled
  

  • Jan-2016
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  Alice James is back in Detroit helping her mother get situated in a nursing home. This leaves Jim Snow alone to investigate their first missing person case involving a wedding photographer who told everyone he was leaving on a photo expedition to sup...

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  Reunion
  

  • Dec-2016
  • / Private Investigator
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  Jim Snow and Alice James of the James & James Detective Agency have a new client. His administrative assistant contacted them by mistake -- but that won’t prevent them from taking on this challenging case. Their new client is a criminal defense att...

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