In the latest Lou Corso mystery, Lou Corso, a hard drinking, hard living ex-cop is confronted with a chance for a new life. When Lou's client, Connie Terwilliger is threatened by her vicious husband, Victor, Lou and the group  of good Samaritans who help him shelter battered women rescue Connie and put her in a safe house.   After Connie is murderously attacked, Lou finds himself pulled between his current commitments and a decade old list of cold cases involving murdered or missing women. One of those cases had cost him his career as a police detective when his frustration with a suspect had pushed him near the edge. When life couldn't seem to get more complicated, Lou meets Joan Queen, a pretty ex-cop from Miami who makes him feel like living again.  In this fast paced drama, Lou Corso must outsmart a psychopath, redeem himself as a champion of battered and murdered women, and find the courage to commit to love.

Insufficient Evidence

Literature & Fiction

SWART, CARTER

Contemporary

HILLIARD & HARRIS

Lou Corso is a hard drinking, hard living ex-LAPD cop with a heart of gold. As the owner of a successful security firm, Lou is a champion for women, particularly women in trouble." Insufficient Evidence" is a fast-paced, sophisticated yarn about a series of murders from a cold case file and Lou's second chances for justice and love.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Hillard & Harris

What is The End Game?  It’s the final strategy of a vicious killer haunted by unfinished business.  Unfortunately, that unfinished business is Lou Corso.   Lou, the tough ex-LAPD cop with the heart of gold, is slowly drinking himself to death over the recent losses of Phoebe Peck (Deceived by Death)—his former partner and mentor—and Joan Queen (Insufficient Evidence)— his tormented lover and sweet companion.  Lou feels betrayed by life—by the bad breaks and lost opportunities. But the real betrayal is about to begin as Lou attempts to pull himself up out of the dark depths of despair and personal  heartache to run his security company.  He is also determined to  continue his work rescuing battered women.  In the latest Lou Corso tale, betrayal seems to come disguised as a beautiful woman, and Lou is suddenly surrounded by beautiful women. For a guy who hasn’t particularly been lucky in love, Lou seems poised for a new start in life.  But which beautiful woman holds the promise of a bright future  and which one holds a swift and painful death? As if that were not enough, some old business turns up—a singularly brutish wife beater—a giant of a man who almost killed Lou in their last encounter—has been paroled for good behavior.  He comes to tell Lou that he has seen the error of his ways, the error of beating his wife almost to death before Lou intervened five years ago.  But Lou is uneasy—-he is sure that he is being stalked. When his car is vandalized and his old friend Abe Brown’s operatives start dying, Lou, knows that a confrontation is coming. a life and death confrontation with a killer determined to even the score in a game that will be The End Game.

The End Game

Hunting Evil

Hilliard & Harris Pub

A chance encounter in a favorite restaurant sends a mild mannered man into a panic. Memories from his past, unspeakable memories, flood his mind as he recognizes a man he considers a devil—pure evil. What to do? He confronts the stranger, a tall, elegant man with a twisted ear, and follows him into the street but can’t keep up as the stranger drives away. He needs help and he knows who to go to. Lou Corso, ex LAPD police detective and current security company chief, is at home alone, dozing in his chair when a scratching at his door wakes him. Ever wary, Lou pauses at the door, a faint “help me” sends a cold chill up his spine. He opens the door to find a former colleague, a PI he worked on a case with, in a bloody heap on his doorstep. Lou carries the severely injured man inside and strains to listen as the victim whispers a few words to him before the EMTs carry him away. A man’s name. The client or the killer? Lou wants to find out who attacked his friend, and his instincts tell him he needs to hurry because he may be next.

For Lou Corso, life is going well. His security firm has just moved into new offices and his relationship with his lady friend, Pauline is sweet. So when the phone rings late one night, he isn’t expecting bad news...or really bad news. The caller, Jenny, a cold-blooded killer to whom Lou owed his life, was calling to let him know that the woman she had saved him from was back to clean up. A gang of women known as the Widow Makers had targeted abusive men in the Los Angeles area, and Lou and the police had not managed to capture any of them. Lou was close as he moved on two of them, then Patty got the drop on him but Jenny shot him first—deliberately wounding him to save his life. But now Patty is back, intent on finishing their mission and to get revenge on Jenny and Lou. And she has not come alone. Patty has a partner—a young girl who looks like a sweet kid, but would cut your throat in a heart beat. Lou’s world is going to Hell and all he can do is to get ready for the fight of his life.

Double Trouble

BITTER CREEK

Genre Fiction

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Insufficient Evidence

Insufficient Evidence

The End Game

Hunting Evil

Hunting Evil

Double Trouble

BITTER CREEK