Craig Lenzati, the rich and powerful CEO of Chicago's answer to Microsoft, is found brutally murdered with stab wounds all over his body. The murder is reported anonymously, and a quick and quiet resolution to the case is demanded by City Hall. Meanwhile, the list of suspects is almost endless and that along has the powers-that-be breathing down the necks of Chicago Police Detectives Paul Turner and Buck Fenwick. But as the two struggle to untangle the case and find the killer, they soon learn that the killer has only just begun. Mark Richard Zubro's wisecracking detectives are back and better than ever in Sex and Murder.com.

With ingenious go-for-broke strategies and the help of a famous mentor, legal rising star Nikki Easterly is out to save an innocent client's life. But amid the Internet's realms of infinite promise, a mysterious stranger known as the Master is about to command her hottest, most forbidden erotic fantasies, even as she begins to uncover the truth behind her own troubled past. Now Nikki will risk her career, future, and life for the revelations that can fulfill her most vulnerable longings--or destroy her.

"Seventeen-year-old Kat McDonough grew up with theater in her blood—and a penchant for make-believe. More than a decade older, Seth Mazzaglia was well known in the community theater circle of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He, too, had a rich inner life—and he soon had Kat convinced that they were soul mates. To intensify their bond, Seth lured Kat into a world of violent sex and role-playing, where she was his slave. But even that wasn’t enough to satisfy his ravenous appetites. Enter Lizzi Marriott, the new girl in town. And when she accepts an invitation to Kat and Seth’s apartment, she will never be seen again..."--Amazon.com.

A game of power, money, and crime. Life in the pistol smoke is like a ticking bomb. Either you are wearing the explosive or throwing it at someone. Drama, a man rising from the streets, knows the deadly secret of this life. The hood shows no mercy to anyone. It is the battle of the fittest, and Drama wants to be the last man standing. Lifting his drug business from dust, he envisions a legacy that every breathing soul remembers. The only issue with dust is that it attracts corpses. A place where blood has a price and lust is the vitamin of life. He is hustling to carve heaven on earth for himself. The rain is about to get heavier and bloodier. Will he be able to reach the summit? In his world, either you sleep peacefully or sleep for a lifetime, Will the familiar monsters come out to play, or will he have to hunt them down one by one?

A professional business relationship unexpectedly leads to an impromptu sexual encounter. This evolves into an illicit affair that continues over a period of time. The experience propels one of the leading characters to be considered a person of interest in a murder investigation. Sex, Murder, Betrayal begins routinely as a scenario common to the manner in which most business relationships are conducted. Where it leads is totally unexpected, especially when a murder becomes the main focus of the story. The location of the murder is in a small city where murder is a crime that is almost nonexistent. The investigative team includes an aging Irish American detective, within months of his retirement. His new partner is an Englishman, working part time, and having previously retired from Scotland Yard. This unlikely team, characters in their own right, work together in their assignment to solve the murder. The reader is brought along, step by step, with these two characters in their crime solving efforts.

Trophy wife Celeste Beard wasn't satisfied with a luxurious lifestyle and her rich Austin media mogul husband's devotion -- so she took his life! The wife: She wanted everything, but her husband stood in the way. The lesbian lover: A love-struck, middle-aged woman with a history of mental illness, she would do anything to set Celeste free. The beauty salon receptionist: Celeste hired her to tie up the loose ends ... in a second conspiracy to commit murder.

Gay police detective Paul Turner discovers that he is dealing with a political and economic hot potato as he investigates the brutal murder of Craig Lenzati, CEO of one of Chicago's leading high-tech firms.

Millionaire executive Steven Beard woke up screaming. Experiencing excruciating pain, he reached down and clutched his stomach. He felt the blood on his hands and panicked. His internal organs were oozing outside his belly. Beard reached over and called for an ambulance. The paramedics worked in vain to stem his bleeding. The seventy-four-year-old writhed in pain but out of the corner of his eye, he saw his wife Celeste enter the room. "Oh my God," Celeste said. "Steve! What happened?" The medics pushed the woman back, not wanting her to interfere in his care. Chaos ensued as his thirty-seven-year-old wife and her two twin daughters entered the room. Police searched around the premise and found a shell on the ground. Steven Beard had been shot in his stomach. But by whom? Was it the wife who strangely was not sleeping in the same bed. The daughters? Or would it be Tracey Tarlton, a lesbian lover of Celeste? "They knew Tracey had pulled the trigger," crime writer Diane Fanning said. "But they suspected someone else was involved. But Tracey just wouldn't talk." Tarlton harbored a secret from the police. She had fallen in love with Beard's wife, Celeste. But as Tracey would later find out, there was a lot about Celeste that she didn't know about...