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A darkly humorous piece about a former police detective based in Miami, Florida, who quit the force and her alcohol abuse problem, intending to turn over a new leaf. But her past quickly catches up with her in strange and unexpected ways.

When a Viking chief is found murdered aboard his ship, the brewing storm is the least of the dangers facing his wife. Far from shore and surrounded by cut-throats, she must find the killer – to avenge her husband and escape with her life.

A man is grilled by the DEA as he retrieves the ashes of his brother, whose bomb killed a drug boss and himself. Except he's alive. So who, or what, is in the box of ashes?

The death under mysterious circumstances of the narrator's beloved Texas middle school teacher triggers a series of slayings of particular resonance in the Lone Star State.

Ivory Roberts learns that his 9 year old neighbor has a mysterious illness, but it is not the illness that is likely to take his life. The real danger comes from others who surround him including his doctors.

It's a race against time in Boston when a self-revered notary public must save the justice system.