The debut of Jon A. Jackson's acclaimed “Fang" Mulheisen mystery series, The Diehard instantly established him as a master of the form. It begins in Indian Village, an exclusive enclave in Mulheisen's crumbling Detroit precinct, where a gorgeous young heiress is shot and stabbed during a break-in and expires on a neighbor's doorstep. It appears at first a simple robbery attempt. Mulheisen gets suspicious when her husband turns out to be the only executive of Fidelity Trust Insurance to escape blame for an embezzlement scandal worth some twenty million dollars. But what is the connection, where is the money, and who is the suntanned stranger who is tracking down the same leads, one step ahead of Mulheisen?

The latest from masterful mystery writer Jon A. Jackson, Badger Games is an international cat-and-mouse game beginning in Kosovo and stretching to the mountains of Montana. Ex-freelance contractor to the Mob, Joe Service is now in the employ of the Lucani, a cadre of rogue government agents who have recently lost an operative known only as Franko. Franko, last seen in the path of a drug-smuggling ring through a Kosovar mountain village, was from Montana — so Joe and his lover, Mafia princess Helen Sedlacek, head to Butte to see what they can learn. But they're not the only ones. A volatile mercenary nicknamed the Badger is also looking for Franko; and the Lucani have sent backup — to help Joe or contain him, he's not sure — in the form of a bombshell who rivals Lara Croft for sex appeal and dangerous moves. They are quickly caught up in a deadly game of hide-and-seek in the rough-hewn mountain landscape, culminating in a terrifying night in the tunnels of an...

"Fang" Mulheisen is back for an explosive confrontation with his old nemesis, Joe Service. Mulheisen and Service came to an unspoken agreement to let each other be over the deathbed of Humphrey DiEbola, Detroit's then-mob head, in La Donna Detroit, and in Badger Games Joe and his lover, the mafia princess Helen Sedlacek, seemed to be going "straight." But nothing can stay calm for long.The novel opens with Mulheisen's aged mother nearly slain by a savage and incomprehensible bombing at an orderly protest by environmentalists against a planned development that threatens the habitat of a certain sparrow. Mulheisen resigns from the force and moves back home to nurse her. But as she recovers he turns his implacable attention to the bombers. Colonel Tucker, the head of the above-the-law outfit of like-minded government agents the Lucani, is in charge of the government's Task Force, and would really like Mulheisen on board, but he's not interested. However, his friend Wunney, a...

Jon A. Jackson has been called “the best-kept secret of hard-boiled crime-fiction connoisseurs" by The New York Times and Deadman is another virtuoso performance that explains why.Fang Mulheisen, Detroit police detective extraordinaire, is back—this time on a mission to the high dusty plains of Montana, where Helen Sedlacek seems to have surfaced. Readers of Jackson's previous work will remember that Helen, daughter of the late, hardly lamented Mafia Don Big Sid Sedlacek, exacted vengeance for her father's murder by chopping down the leader of the Detroit mob with a double-barreled 12-gauge, then disappeared with a truck full of stolen cash. Now, months later, a man fitting the description of Joe Service—Helen's lover and Mulheisen's long-time underworld nemesis—arrives in a Butte hospital in a coma, having been shot in the face at close range. Then Mario Soper, a mob hit man with an open contract to kill Joe, turns up dead in a Montana...

Jon A. Jackson is one of crime fiction's masters, and Hit on the House, acclaimed by Jim Harrison as “an unqualifiably brilliant novel," is note-perfect and deeply satisfying. Hal Good, a contract killer, is hired to wax Big Side Sedlacek—a mob heavy who's been on the take. Picked up as a possible witness, he switched ID with a drunk and walks out of jail before Mulheisen can question him. Soon other Mob higher-ups begin to meet bloody ends, and a girl from Mulheisen's past turns up married to an abrasive computer entrepreneur with a suspicious number of friends in “the business." Big Sid's daughter Helen is looking for vengeance; and the Mob's freelance “investigator" is beating Mulheisen to all of his leads. As the investigation gets ever more unwieldy the body count threatens to grow, while the millions of dollars skimmed by Big Sid and his unnamed partners stay missing.

The Newark Star-Ledger has written that Jon A. Jackson is "full of surprises ... worth reading, keeping, and rereading." In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called the Mulheisen books "one of the wildest and wittiest crime series going" and La Donna Detroit "a vastly enjoyable caper." It opens as mob boss Humphrey DiEbola has tracked femme fatale Helen Sedlacek to Montana, where she fled after killing Humphrey's predecessor and running off with millions in Mafia cash. Unexpectedly, rather than take vengeance, he offers her redemption. Humphrey has also set about drastically downsizing old hands, even turning over his illegal cigar factory to Helen to make some legitimate, Cuban-quality cigars. Is he grooming her to become La Donna Detroit? When a quiet poker party in Humphrey's basement leaves all hands dead, Mulheisen smells a rat--and he's not the only one. Wry and note-perfect, La Donna Detroit brings Mulheisen up close to the mob's most intimate face and confirms Jon A....

The Blind Pig opens as a cop kills an armed intruder and two hit men shoot a jukebox. It would seem an open-and-shut case, but the deceased turns out to have been a hit man for the mob, and Mul find himself smack in the middle of a gun-running plot. A “delicious kumquat" of a woman is using her own brand of ammo on Mulheisen in the after-hours of Detroit jazz. Mulheisen knows the shootings revolve around a young man who'd struck it rich in trucking—and then everything explodes when someone pulls off a million-dollar heist. The take? Sleek, beautiful guns—enough to start a war.

Detective "Fang" Mulheisen returns in a rollicking thriller hailed as "a quirky, comic delight that brings to mind early Elmore Leonard" (Booklist). Detroit's Det. Sgt. "Fang" Mulheisen is far from home and hunting for his seemingly unkillable nemesis, a hired gun named Joe Service, who survived a gunshot to the head and escaped a hospital with the help of his beguiling nurse. Joe is in Salt Lake City looking for his longtime lover and partner in crime, Helen Sedlacek, who is in hiding with millions in stolen mob money. The problem is, Joe's injuries have left his memory a bit shaky—even if his skills with a gun are still rock solid—which leads to a whole lot of dead bodies in his wake. And those bodies leave a trail for Mulheisen to track his quarry. But there are a lot of other unpleasant people looking for Joe—all with itchy trigger fingers. And Mulheisen has to get between them all before his manhunt...

Jon A. Jackson's novels about Detroit Detective Sergeant “Fang" Mulheisen have caused The New York Times to exclaim, “How long can Jon A. Jackson remain the best-kept secret of hard-boiled crime fiction connoisseurs? . . . Jackson always gets it right." In Man with an Axe, Jackson returns to Mulheisen's hardboiled and eccentric mentor, star of Jackson's acclaimed cult hit Grootka. Mulheisen in settling in for a period of repose, when suddenly he begins receiving bizarre E-mail cartoons depicting a murder—and an alluring young historian turns up wanting to know all about the long-dead Grootka. As Mulheisen begins uncovering the notebook diaries Grootka left behind, it becomes clear that these two events are somehow linked to the fate of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa—and that a young saxophonist, who disappeared without a trace the same weekend as Hoffa, may hold the key.