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BLUES IN THE NIGHT
NEW TRADE PAPERBACK AND EBOOK EDITIONS
NOW AVAILABLE
Dick Lochte’s new novel is an edgy and twisted
thriller about . . .
• a missing secret formula as priceless as it is deadly . .
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• a beautiful woman who may be deadlier than the formula . .
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• a surprisingly likeable mobster whose life is on the line
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• assorted show biz flakes, CIA wheeler-dealers,
international terrorists and eccentric but effective
home-grown leg-breakers . . .
• and a hero, David Mason (AKA Mace), a hardboiled ex-con
returning to Los Angeles after nine years to discover that
the angels who gave the city its name have long since flown
the coop.
BLUES IN THE NIGHT is the adrenaline rush from
award-winning writer Dick Lochte, whose novels have earned
the praise of critics and many of his fellow writers,
including Joseph Wambaugh, Robert Crais, Sue Grafton,
Jonathan Kellerman, and Andrew Vachss, who wrote: “Pick your
genre—police procedure, PI, whodunit, serial killer ... this
guy can do them all. And all in the same book.” This time
it’s a noir novel of redemption, a lightning-fast chase
adventure, a whodunit, and a no-holds-barred love story that
reads like a modern day Maltese Falcon on steroids.
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SLEEPING
DOG
AVAILABLE ON KINDLE
"OUTCLASSES, IN MANY WAYS, THE TALES OF RAYMOND CHANDLER,
ROSS MACDONALD AND OTHER RENOWNED CALIFORNIA MYSTERY
WRITERS."
-- Publishers Weekly
First Holmes
and Watson, then Nero and Archie, Now Leo and
Serendipity--two detectives, two narrative voices, twice as
much sleuthing and double the fun. Originally
published in 1985, Sleeping Dog won the Nero Wolfe Award and
was nominated for the Edgar, the Shamus, and the Anthony
Awards. In 1999, the Independent Mystery Booksellers's
Association named it one of their 100 Favorite Mysteries of
the Century!
"First, imagine Katherine Hepburn at fourteen. Next, in your
mind's eye, replay Humphrey Bogart, at his middle-aged best,
as Sam Spade. Now picture this oddest of couples as the
newest duo in detective fiction and you'll have a perfect
portrait of the memorable leads in Sleeping Dog."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
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LAUGHING
DOG
AVAILABLE ON KINDLE
Hardboiled private
eye Leo Bloodworth and his self-appointed partner,
fifteen-year-old Serendipity Dahlquist, are back in a wild
and deadly new mystery that’s every bit as brilliant and
memorable as SLEEPING DOG. This time, Leo and Serendipity
are on the trail of a teenage runaway and a missing pair of
sapphire earrings, two seemingly separate, increasingly
dangerous cases rife with gang members, designer drugs,
killer birds …and a terrorist plot that could plunge sunny
Southern California into a permanent nuclear winter.
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DICK LOCHTE’S TWO
ACCLAIMED NEW ORLEANS NOVELS -
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Blue Bayou
New Orleans Private Investigator Terry Manion, just out of
drug and alcohol rehab, is hit by sobering news. His friend
and mentor, J.J. Legendre, is dead and the cops are calling
it suicide. Manion doesn’t buy it, but finding the truth is
a tricky business in the Crescent City, where those
connected with J.J. are rapidly becoming an endangered
species. His quest is helped or hindered by an assortment of
colorful characters including: a septuagenarian former
madam, a Mafia don and his politically-correct son, an
opera-loving hit man, a rogue cop who went to grammar school
with Manion, a Southern beauty whose favorite drink is
champagne and vodka with a coke chaser, a Cajun Romeo and
Juliet, and a bestselling author who has earmarked Manion as
his next subject.
Finally, there’s Blue Bayou, a supposedly magical section of
Louisiana swampland that is as treacherous as it is
beautiful, an eerie place from which no one leaves untouched
-- if they are able to leave at all.
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The Neon Smile
When New Orleans PI Terry Manion agrees to work for Pierre
Reynaldo, the king of exploitation TV, he winds up reopening
a case the NOPD slammed shut thirty years before -- the
racially motivated murder of Tyrone Pano, a black militant
leader. The more Manion learns about the case, the more
personal it becomes. Both his father and his mentor, J.J.
Legendre, had ties to Pano that might have been better left
buried.
THE NEON SMILE takes the reader back to 1965, a fateful year
for Legendre, then a young, cynical homicide detective
working the Pano case and a series of brutal murders
committed by a cool killer who models his crimes after a
19th Century slayer known as The Meddler. Legendre seems to
have put an end to the Meddler’s reign of terror. But
decades later, Manion’s probing into the Pano murder brings
the Meddler back to life, exposing thirty years of fear,
corruption and violence.
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The Body in the Back Seat / Croaked!
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UNDER IT'S NEW TITLE
"THE BODY IN THE BACK SEAT"
It’s the Swinging Sixties
and Harry Trauble is ready for some California Dreamin’.
He’s young, single, living at a cool beach-side pad and
working in Hollywood at Ogle, the nation's second most
popular magazine for men. So what if the Vietnam Conflict is
heating up and Watts is a racial powder key about to blow?
At Ogle, with its beautiful people, amusing eccentrics and
sexual freedom, it's nothing but fun and games. Unless
you're worried about a company executive being crushed by a
giant statue of the magazine' s jaunty frog logo . . . or
the strangled corpse left in the back seat of Harry’s car .
. . or the dark and sinister plan that's placed the
employees of Ogle on the hit list of a very efficient
assassin.
THE REVIEWS
“A splashy, sexy, swingin’ adventure.”
-- Donald Pitt, Booklist
“Lochte serves up a giddy romp that's … never dull.”
-- Kirkus Reviews
“A breezy, brisk spoof of a popular gentlemen’s magazine
(where) interoffice politics, sex, drugs, centerfold shoots
and general anarchy reign.” --
Mystery Scene magazine
“One of the fifteen best mysteries of the year.”
-- Jon Breen in The Mystery in 2007
“Lochte creates memorable, quirky characters that are fun
and entertaining.” -- Crime
Spree magazine
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THE BILLY
BLESSING SERIES
These humorous entertainment world mysteries by Dick and
Al Roker feature morning show co-host and Manhattan
restaurateur Billy Blessing who always seems to find murder
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The Morning Show Murders
“A solid, exciting crime novel … snappy prose and well
developed characters will leave readers wanting to see more
of Blessing.” -- Publishers
Weekly
“A crisp puzzler. Crackling dialogue and well-crafted
settings.” -- Kirkus Reviews
“A witty and thrilling debut.”
-- Romantic Times
“A funny, funny, very funny mystery that gallops along and
has several cool twists.” --
James Patterson
“Required reading.” -- New York
Post
“Terrific plot, fast, funny and full of action and adventure
with even a touch of steamy romance.”
-- Janet Evanovich
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The Midnight Show Murders
“Great fun, full of nifty twists and turns.”
-- Carl Hiaasen
“The laughs are frequent and belly deep, and the personable
tone is akin to a television mystery/comedy like The
Rockford Files or Columbo.” --
BookPage
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The Talk Show Murders
(PAPERBACK EDITION NOW AVAILABLE!)
“As well-paced and thoughtfully prepared as an Alice Waters
tasting menu.” -- Kirkus Reviews
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THE LOS
ANGELES LEGAL THRILLER QUARTET
These crime novels by Dick and attorney Christopher Darden
offer a suspenseful inside look at the Los Angeles criminal
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The Trials of Nikki Hill
(featuring Deputy District Attorney Nikki Hill and LAPD
Homicide Detective Virgil Sykes)
“Twists and tension … a whiplash plot.”
-- People magazine
“O.J. Simpson prosecutor Christopher Darden knows the L.A.
legal system like the back of his hand.”
-- Entertainment Weekly
“A genuinely suspenseful crime novel with a charismatic
heroine and a cast of well-drawn supporting characters.”
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L.A. Justice (a Nikki
Hill/Virgil Sykes novel)
“(A) high-octane legal thriller … the kind of frenzied
page-turner many authors aspire to and few deliver.”
-- Publishers Weekly
“An exciting topical legal thriller.”
-- Chicago Tribune
“A sizzling page-turner … The story is pure dynamite with a
solution that will knock your socks off.”
-- Romantic Times
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The Last Defense (featuring
defense attorney Mercer Early)
“Nonstop action from courtroom to barroom to bedroom … a
fast ride with a jolting, surprise finish.”
“A blockbuster legal thriller, crammed to the gills with
pith, moment, racial insights, courtroom chicanery, sexual
shenanigans and countless other delights.”
-- Chicago Tribune
“Exciting and engrossing … This crime-fiction dream team ‘s
most satisfying work yet … worthy of legal thriller masters
such as Steve Martini and John Lescroart.”
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Lawless (a Mercer Early
mystery)
“A crackerjack crime yarn (that) offers an embarrassment of
riches. -- Publishers Weekly
“A wildly entertaining rollercoaster ride through L.A. legal
corridors.” -- Booklist |
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