Charles Ardai

Award-winning writer and co-founder of Hard Case Crime, Charles Ardai, returns to the Gun Honey universe in this action-packed spin-off featuring the sultry and explosive artwork of Ace Continuado. If the heat is on, Dahlia Racers can help you disappear - for a price. Marked for death by a U.S. intelligence agency, Gun Honey Joanna Tan turns to Dahlia Racers to help her pull a vanishing act. But the killer hot on her trail, beautiful sociopath...

DEBUT SERIES FROM AWARD WINNING WRITER AND CO - FOUNDER OF HARD CASE CRIME PUBLISHING CHARLES ARDAI. When a gun smuggled into a high-security prison leads to the death of dozens and the escape of a brutal criminal, notorious weapons smuggler Joanna Tan is enlisted by the U.S. government: find the man she set loose and bring him down!

With weapons expert Joanna Tan, the legendary "Gun Honey," off the grid, recuperating from her last job, a vengeful rival takes her place - and frames Joanna for murder. On the run from Malaysia to Milan, from Montana to Monaco, can Joanna catch up to her ruthless enemy...or will she catch a bullet first?

She's the best at what she does. She gets her client the weapon they need, where they need it, when they need it. Joanna Tan thought she was planting a gun for a simple hit. But when it's used in a deadly prison riot, Joanna is forced to work with U.S. government agent Brook Barrow to hunt down the perpetrator, a deadly scarred killer with a shadowy past. But finding him won't be easy - and bringing him down may cost Joanna everything. Created...

Joanna Tan is back, sexier and deadlier than ever... She'll get you the weapon you need, when you need it, where you need it - no matter how impossible. They call her GUN HONEY. But this time, somebody else is planting the weapons. Somebody who's causing a lot of trouble. And with Joanna's MO, the authorities are making her their number one suspect. It's now up to Joanna to prove her innocence, and find the woman responsible for framing her...

DEBUT SERIES FROM AWARD WINNING WRITER AND CO - FOUNDER OF HARD CASE CRIME PUBLISHING CHARLES ARDAI. When a gun smuggled into a high-security prison leads to the death of dozens and the escape of a brutal criminal, notorious weapons smuggler Joanna Tan is enlisted by the U.S. government: find the man she set loose and bring him down!

If the heat is on, Dahlia Racers can help you disappear – for a price. Marked for death by a U.S. intelligence agency, Gun Honey Joanna Tan turns to Dahlia Racers to help her pull a vanishing act. But the killer hot on her trail, beautiful sociopath Sarah Claride, will leave bodies strewn from New York to Las Vegas to Tijuana, Mexico, if it means cornering Dahlia – and breaking her…

"Collected here for the first time anywhere are the author's 20 finest stories, including his Edgar-winning "The Home Front," about death and repentance during World War II; the Shamus Award finalist "Nobody Wins," about a brutal gangland enforcer searching for the woman he loves; and year's-best selections such as "A Bar Called Charley's," about a traveling salesman's most grueling night on the road."--

It's 1958, and a sleazy New York pulp-fiction publisher finds himself in trouble after publishing a supposedly non-fiction account of a heist at a Mafia-run nightclub which was actually written by an 18 year-old showgirl with ambitions of writing for the New Yorker. With both the cops and the crooks after them, our heroes are about to learn that reading and writing pulp novels is a lot more fun than living them.