Michael A. Black & Julie Hyzy
Dead Ringer

Private eye Ron Shade is looking for Bob Bayless, a dead-and­buried executive who was recently spotted playing blackjack in Vegas, while news reporter Alex St James fights off the attentions of a creepy mortician who's a little too eager to show her his backroom moves. Although it seems their two cases couldn't be further apart, clues - and bodies - add up to tell a different tale. When Alex and Shade connect, the two find themselves involved in a combined case so convoluted that even the dead don't stay buried for long.

Michael Jahn
Donovan and Son

NYPD homicide detective Bill Donovan has retired so he can devote his energy to finding the scientist who can cure the paralysis that confines his son to a wheelchair. In the basement of the Riverside University library, they find a dying man whose last word, 'mercury'. diverts them into a dark secret from the university's past. When at last Donovan and son solve the crime, reveal Riverside's deep and deadly secret and resume their quest for the missing scientist, Donovan could be forever changed.

In Dark Kill, Lew Lander came into Colorado with five hundred head of cattle but had the problem of marketing his beef. He sold it to Indian agents and by the time the rail line came through, was one of the biggest cattlemen in the territory. Railroad Doctor finds Hy West adopted by the Benton clan. After a train robbery, 14-year-old Hy is captured. Instead of being sent to prison, it is decided by the court to make him a ward of Dr Albert Condon, who practices medicine in Soda Springs. But the Bentons are determined to involve Hy in another train robbery.