In Simon's gritty debut novel, police detective Dan Reles, who had fled to Texas at the age of fifteen when his father's "friendship" with the mob had gone bad, has his work cut out for him trying to keep justice in the post-oil-bust, corrupt Texas. Not yet recovered from his partner's recent death, and suddenly behaving erratically and even violently, Reles has internal affairs watching his every move. But when a young prostitute is found brutally...

Jeff Dunham and his iconic characters, including Walter, Peanut, Bubba J, Little Jeff and Achmed the Dead Terrorist, take over the famed Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California, home to film and television's greatest awards shows. They find themselves in true culture shock: Achmed lets celebrity go to his head, Bubba J is lost in LA-LA-land, and Walter would rather be anywhere else. Not everything in L.A. follows a script and this sold-out event holds...

The lives of a beautiful divorcee and a troubled detective intersect during the investigation of a vicious murder on the grimy, rain-soaked streets of London, sparking a tangled web of passion, intrigue and deceit. An absorbing film noir told from the perspective of an intriguing woman, a key suspect in a murder case, who becomes an obsession for the detective in charge of the investigation.