From Publishers Weekly

For his third brilliant crime novel, following Jimmy Bench-Press (2002), Stella once again assembles a huge cast of Made Men, DEA and FBI agents, plus local cops and gangstas, hookers and a woman on the run from her abusive husband. Charlie Pellecchia, recently retired from a successful window-washing business, thought a Vegas vacation would offer some fun, a little gambling, for him and his wife, but "early the next morning, Charlie woke up in a ditch behind a construction site." Gradually, he learns that the obnoxious guy whose jaw he broke in a New York club is Nicholas Cuccia, nephew of the acting Mafia underboss, that his love for arias has gotten him dubbed "Charlie Opera" by the cops back home, and that his wife is leaving him. "His marriage was over. The sooner he accepted it, the better." To Cuccia and his goons, however, he figures he'll devote a little more effort. Stella's dialogue is electric and funny, as when a hit man asks Cuccia if he really wants him to whack a guy for breaking his jaw. "Cuccia shook his head. No,' he said,I want you to whack a guy for forty grand.' " This outing Stella offers us quite a few sympathetic characters, from Charlie and the cocktail waitress he's falling for, to strong-arm men Francone and Lano. You actually feel sorry for the poor New York Mafioso, dropped in Las Vegas like sharks flipped into a pool of piranhas.
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From Booklist

Starred Review Charlie Pellecchia is young, but he still put in 30 years as a high-rise window washer and business owner before selling out to retire. He and wife Lisa are in Vegas when Lisa announces she is leaving him. A distraught Charlie hits a casino, flirts with a barmaid, and gets mugged as he tries to walk off the booze. Mugged but wallet not taken? It turns out the mugging is connected to an incident in New York when Charlie took a swing at a guy flirting with Lisa. Unfortunately, the guy was the hotheaded son of a New York crime family, Nicky Cuccia, who now sports a broken jaw and a black heart set on revenge. DEA types, who have Nicky in their web and don't want him distracted by personal vendettas, think it would be handy if Charlie left Vegas. Charlie, mad at the world and inherently stubborn, stays and unwittingly places himself in the center of a maelstrom fueled by a high-level heroin sting, mob vendettas, a steroid-addled button man, and two homicidal Asian drug pirates. With his third novel, Stella is carving himself a niche in crime literature somewhere between the late Eugene Izzi's street noir and Elmore Leonard's ironic tragicomedies. Bottom line: it works. Stella is a rising star. Wes Lukowsky
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Deadly Stillwater, where Mac McRyan is confronted with the kidnapping of Shannon Hisle, taken in a brazen daylight attack outside a restaurant on one of St. Pauls busiest streets. And Shannon Hisle isnt just anyone. Shes the only daughter of St. Pauls most prominent, successful and politically connected lawyer. Mac knows that every political lever will be pulled, that the FBI will be coming in, that the St. Paul Mayor, not his biggest fan, will be scrutinizing his every move and that the media storm will be every bit as intense as the heat wave blazing the Twin Cities. Whats more, while all of the signs point to a straightforward kidnapping for ransom, Macs instincts tell him otherwise, especially after the kidnappers call just hours after the abduction and skip the ransom demand. Why not ask for the ransom? he wonders. While everyone assumes the ransom demand will come soon enough, the failure to make the demand gives Mac pause, and for good reason. For the Hisle abduction is just the beginning in a case of betrayal and revenge sixteen years in the making that will ultimately strike at the heart and soul of the St. Paul Police Department. From the searing streets of St. Paul to the icy shores of Lake Superior in Duluth; from the rolling country side of western Wisconsin to the murky waters of the St. Croix, Deadly Stillwater is a non-stop four-day rush you wont be able to put down until its last thrilling minute.

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Siempre ha confiado en sus clientes… hasta su última defendida. El abogado defensor Harrison J. Walker, más conocido como Jaywalker, acaba de ser suspendido por usar tácticas “creativas” y por recibir en las escaleras del juzgado “un acto de gratitud” de una clienta acusada de ejercer la prostitución. Jaywalker consigue convencer al juez de que sus clientes lo necesitan y recibe autorización del tribunal para terminar diez casos.

Sin embargo, es el último el que realmente pone a prueba su capacidad y su excelente registro de absoluciones. Samara Moss ha apuñalado a su marido en el corazón. Al menos, eso es lo que cree todo el mundo. Samara, una ex prostituta que se casó con el anciano multimillonario cuando tenía dieciocho años, es el arquetipo de la cazadora de fortunas. Sin embargo, Jaywalker sabe que las apariencias engañan. ¿Qué otra persona podría haber matado al multimillonario? ¿Le han tendido una trampa a Samara para incriminarla? ¿O acaso Jaywalker se está dejando influir por su necesidad de ganar los casos de sus clientes y de conseguir la gratitud eterna de esta clienta en particular?