Peter Franzella was excelling in bringing high-limit gamblers to Las Vegas. His rapid success in producing over sixty million dollars in revenue for casinos got the attention of Nevada authorities. His assumed association with organized crime and his...
Ride along with the New Orleans Police Department as the officers work together to solve unusual happenings in this unique, historic city. You’ll meet Zack Nelson, a former police officer, now living in a retirement center because of his daughter-i...
Tales of Lady Luck are stories during my twenty-five years in the gaming business.The opportunity I had in 1975 was enormous. There were no casinos on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, and nothing in Louisiana other than horse racing. The Louisiana lott...
Mario DeLuca, a respected New Orleans detective for over twenty years, has put many criminals behind bars and there is not a one that wouldn’t want to see him dead. Felipe Cruz, in court promised he would get even with Mario -- one day. He still co...
The legend of Voodoo Lucy begins when twenty-eight-year-old Lucinda Jones leaves Tupelo, Mississippi, and her alcoholic, abusive, father behind to start a new life in New Orleans. In the city where jazz bands play until the first light of dawn and no...
New Orleans Homicide Detective Mario DeLuca does not always follow police protocol. Still, he gets the bad guys one way or another.Take a trip through New Orleans as you've never seen it before. Join Mario DeLuca, a homicide detective with ...
Detective Mario DeLuca continues his police work in New Orleans in this fourth book in the True Blue Detective series. In charge of the Homicide Division in the Eighth District, he sees more than his share of murders, robberies, and crime. When his l...
What a great series. The stories captured me on the first page, and then it got better with every page I turned. From a beloved master of crime fiction, True Blue Detective features Mario DeLuca, the hard-boiled detective of the New Orleans Fren...
5-⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I have read all the True Blue Detective series, a reviewer said. I couldn't put it down! A page-turner. If you are from New Orleans or have visited, you will enjoy this immensely.Mario DeLuca has been drugge...
Tragedy strikes the New Orleans Police Department.Another True Blue officer is involved in a shooting. Detective Mario DeLuca has a personal interest in the officer. The trauma of his police work and his personal life are inseparable. His recurring n...
Walk the streets of New Orleans with Detective Mario DeLuca, as he and his friend, Detective Howard Blitz, work together to solve crimes and multiple murders. While holding true to the values of the True Blue police officers, Mario is also trying to ...
Detective Mario DeLuca had thought that he'd seen the last of Kate Fontenot, his former fiancée. But when she comes to him with a request for help, Mario is unable to say no. Teaming up with his partner, Detective Howard Blitz, Mario sets...
In New Orleans, where jazz bands play until the first light of dawn, murder doesn't sleep either. Cross between a drug dealer and a mafia boss who does Lucinda Jones need most. She aske...
In the small town of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, in 1967, Eli Fletcher is a standout high school quarterback. He's an attractive eighteen-year-old who has caught the attention of every mother in town as a potential husband for their daughters. Eli never ...