Jim Wilsky

Malefactors is defined as "those who commit an offense against the law," or more simply put, "one who does ill toward another." This collection of short stories from Jim Wilsky is chock full of them. Tales that are all different, yet all the same. The locales and characters range from rural to urban. Office buildings, swamps, wealthy estates and corn fields are some of the places. The people range from folks with money to flat broke, from those who have a lot on the line to those who have nothing to lose, old and young alike. There are stone cold killers to good guys and those in between. Those walking on that shaky bridge, that thin tightrope that connects good and evil. The stories all share the same common ingredients though. Plots that are brutal, chaotic, desperate, vengeful and violent. These pages paint the rage and burning fire that dwells within almost everyone but only surface and re-erupt in some. From guns, to knives, to swords and bare hands, this collection will push all the right buttons for crime fiction readers. These specially selected stories touch every base. So, buckle up and read on.

In this hard boiled crime novel, Frank Zafiro and Jim Wilsky team up for the third installment in the saga of Ania, the siren grifter who starred in Blood on Blood and Queen of Diamonds.John Pearse is a loss recovery agent for an insurance agency. When a set of crown jewels that his company paid out on resurface in the middle of a Russian/Polish mafia war in Chicago, Pearse is sent in to find and recover the diamonds. Standing in his ways are gangsters, grifters, and cops, but the biggest obstacle will be the sexy Ania, who has managed to stay one step of everyone else...until now.Andros Krol is muscle for the Polish mafia in Chicago, tasked by his boss to bring back more than just the diamonds. Strong and cunning, Krol is after the money Ania took, but his biggest priority is to deliver brutal justice and a final day of reckoning for Ania.Pearse and Krol are locked into a race against time and each other as they pursue the wily Ania. The circle is closing on all of them.

Book #2 in the Ania Series When Ania Kozak hits Vegas, she's only looking for a place to relax and lay low with her stolen cash and diamonds. But Sin City has other plans for "Annie."Cord Needham is a poker circuit champion with an eye for the ladies and a dark secret in his past. Casey Brunnell is a former baseball player fighting the cards and running up debts to a local mobster. When Annie decides to play a dangerous game with both of them, the stakes go through the roof. Everyone scrambles to beat the odds and get out of town with the money...and their lives."Fast cards and a dangerous woman equal a sizzling story " - O'Neil De Noux, author of The Long Cold and a SHAMUS and DERRINGER AWARD winner"Queen of Diamonds is the second collaboration between Frank Zafiro and Jim Wilsky and it's a partnership that runs like a well oiled machine...I've read a lot of books set in Las Vegas, but there are very few I have enjoyed more."-Chris Leek, independent reviewerWhat they're saying about the Ania saga..."Dark and nasty good." -Brad Parks, Shamus- and Nero-Award-winning author of The Girl Next Door"Blood on Blood is a straight shot of raw, fiery, undiluted noir."- JD Rhoades, author of Breaking Cover, Lawyers, Guns & Money, and the Jack Keller series"Blood on Blood grabs your attention like a shot of Belvedere and a beautiful blonde."- Al Leverone, author of The Lonely Mile"So hard-boiled I'm still sweating from the steam "- Shane Gericke, author of Torn Apart