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Linsenbigler & The Sentients

Mr. & Mrs." Linsenbigler's global fishing expedition hits a snag in Alaska - that's where Gina has been been summoned by NATO to help monitor tests of autonomous AI weapons. It seems something else is monitoring the tests, and it may not be from planet Earth. Get set for a trip across the South Pacific as Boone increasingly becomes a person of interest' to every spy agency imaginable as the man with the key to a next-generation technology. But what government will get their hands on him first.

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THE PLANNER

Having meticulously planned and successfully executed large jewel thefts in Antwerp, Mumbai and Perth, master criminal Christo carefully assembles a crew of New York ex-cons for a new heist.  Reassigned to International Relations due to his indiscretions, NYPD’s Detective Finn is dispatched to assist Interpol investigator Daniella Vella as she tracks down Christo.

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DAMN THE TORPEDOES

DAMN THE TORPEDOES finds Boone Linsenbigler fetted across the breadth of Australian as part of a publicity stunt featuring clues to a lost treasure. As the public fever for the four million dollars peaks, so does the dismay of international intelligence agencies about the source of his clues - riddles that are part of a nefarious Russian plot.

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LINSENBIGLER THE ARGONAUT

Ever intrepid, Boone Linsenbigler is enlisted to rescue his sister Crockett from a Russian extortion plot hatched in Canada and in full flight across the Mediterranean aboard the Swedish Royal Yacht - a journey bewitched by the wiles of Olympus. This is Novel # 5 in the Linsenbigler Series.

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LINSENBIGLER ANGLER'S COMPANION

Hot on the heels of his controversial cocktail companion, Boone Linsenbigler wastes no time in providing the angling public with his novel and no-nonsense approach to fly fishing. Encompassing experiences across multiple continents, his perspective is broad, encompassing and oddly comprehensive, where crappie bass hold sway over tuna, and where cheating is sometimes on tap.
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LINSENBIGLER COCKTAIL COMPANION

American cocktail luminary Boone Linsenbigler steps forth from his novels to deliver a guide for the novice home bartender, a practical compendium on what to buy and how to get started. But just as importantly, Boone dispels many misconceptions and conceits of making cocktails, putting his own twist (as it were) on what's important in cocktailing and what's not.
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LINSENBIGLER & THE LOST CITY

While fishing the wilds of the Amazon rainforest, indomitable pitchman Boone Linsenbigler is kidnapped by feral tribesmen and led on a journey to the ends of the earth – while Rio de Janeiro’s cocktails & charming bartender Luana beckon.
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HAIL LINSENBIGLER!

Dashing liquor pitchman Boone Linsenbigler decides to elude his fame and lose himself in Russia - only to find himself ensnared in a geopolitical flimflam. Hot on the heels of the first novel LINSENBIGLER, our indomitable angler & cocktailer blunders and bluffs past one obstacle after the other in an exodus across the Far East.
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LINSENBIGLER THE BEAR

Dashing liquor pitchman Boone Linsenbigler decides to elude his fame and lose himself in Russia - only to find himself ensnared in a geopolitical flimflam. Hot on the heels of the first novel LINSENBIGLER, our indomitable angler & cocktailer blunders and bluffs past one obstacle after the other in an exodus across the Far East.
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LINSENBIGLER
Featured Review, Kirkus Reviews magazine

A novel that propels a reluctant liquor pitchman into a maelstrom of perilous situations populated by Drug Enforcement Administration agents, Mexican cartel kingpins, Guatemalan military honchos, and random beautiful women.
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The Clause
Starred Review, Library Journal
BOTYA 2012, Honorable Mention, Thriller & Suspense

Jewel thieving partners Gill Underwood and Trudy Elwell have been set up, and Trudy has paid with her life. Working for Cubans and abiding by their code of conduct means Underwood is left on his own, holding $150 million worth of hot sparks.
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Ringer
RT Book Reviews TOP PICK
Choice Awards Nominee, Best Contemporary Mystery

Charged with recovering a sacred relic for his La Paz diocese, Morty Martinez (of Feelers fame) hunts down a gold ring on the finger of New York City billionaire Robert Tyson Grant.
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Buy Back
Starred Review, Kirkus

Tom Davin is a Brooklyn insurance investigator in a jam. His girlfriend split and stuck him with four cats and a debt to a ruthless loan shark. He arranges an art theft to cover the debt - only somebody swipes the paintings from his crew.
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Feelers
Starred Review, Publisher’s Weekly

Morty Martinez is a “feeler”; he empties homes in Brooklyn for resale and hopes to find stashes of cash left by deceased occupants who didn’t trust banks. He also lives in hope that a big find will allow him to assume “his birthright,” a hacienda in Baja California befitting his conquistador ancestry.
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Tailed

Everybody's favorite taxidermy dealer Garth Carson is back and caught up in ritualistic serial killings of big game hunters - by their own trophies! Angie, Otto and Nicholas are along for a bumpy ride that takes them through America's heartland, a journey punctuated by the importance of cheese curds.
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Crooked
2007 Barry Award - Best Paperback Original
2007 Shamus Award - Best Paperback Original

Nicholas Palihnic is taxidermy collector Garth Carson’s black-sheep brother, a natty, tweed-suited hustler who knows every nook and cranny of New York—and a thousand ways to a break a girl’s heart.
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Sleep with the Fishes
Starred Review, Publisher’s Weekly

After a prison stretch and early release, prominent mob turncoat Sydney Bifulco retires to a cabin on the Delaware River to fulfill his dream of the quiet, rural life where he can pursue his newfound passion for fly fishing. He soon finds it's a lot more difficult than it looks in the magazines, especially with forces from his past trying either to whack him or woo him.
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Stuffed
Seattle Times Bestseller
Independent Booksellers Bestseller

Leaping fishes. Prowling bobcats. Mute moose heads....These are the things that fill Garth Carson’s life, as he buys, sells and rents exotic taxidermy from his funky New York City storefront. But now, Garth and his gal Angie have acquired the most dangerous stuffed critter in the world: a certain white crow in a bell jar that Angie practically swoons over—and that other people are dying to get their hands on.
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Pipsqueak
Winner of the Lefty Award for Most Humorous Mystery Crime Novel
Japanese and Russian editions
Barry Award Nominee

A New York taxidermy/collectibles dealer and his gal Angie are at odds with a swing-band conspiracy to undo the information age. It all centers on the murder of a biker, a mysterious brawny red head and a stolen TV squirrel puppet named Pipsqueak.
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