A diamond heist, Mafia murders and a kidnapping Fleeing her criminal past, Natalie believes she has found safety in Venice. But two Mafia brothers execute a daring diamond heist, kill the owner and his wife, and kidnap their 5-year-old daughter, Bianca. Aware of her previous crimes, a Europol Agent forces her to spy on the gang by acting as Bianca's nanny. If she doesn't, NOPD Homicide Detective Frank Renzi will arrest her. Natalie is desperate to escape. The gang leader suspects her and Renzi is about to arrest her. But if she flees, what will happen to Bianca? Natalie's Dilemma: Save herself or save Bianca?

KIDNAPPING … MURDER … REVENGEDonna and Hunter Gates appear to be the perfect power couple. He's a wealthy New Orleans City Councilman. She's a popular news anchor for a local TV station. One night when Hunter comes home, Donna and their two small children are gone. He asks NOPD Detective Frank Renzi to find them. But Renzi soon uncovers a tangled web of lies. Donna and Hunter both have dark secrets, secrets they will do anything to hide. Renzi fears Donna may already be dead. A ransom demand raises more questions in his mind. Is this a kidnapping? A cover-up for murder? Payback for past misdeeds? When one of the hostages is found brutally murdered, Renzi must unravel the Gates family secrets and find the killer before it's too late.

1988: Ten-year-old Natalie is devastated when police find her call girl mother brutally beaten to death in a New Orleans hotel. Like the dragon tattoo girl, Natalie wants revenge. She vows to find the man who killed her mother and punish him. After her unhappy teen years in Texas, her hunt for the killer takes her from dancing in New York City strip clubs to working as a call girl in Paris. And back to the Big Easy, with a gun. 2008: New Orleans Police Detective Frank Renzi investigates the murder of a VIP businessman in a French Quarter hotel. Is it revenge for the 1988 murder? When the killings continue, Renzi pursues the elusive Natalie. Is she the killer? Or just another call girl? 

Beautiful, talented and ambitious, flutist Belinda Scully wants to be a star. But fame can be dangerous. Fourteen months post-Katrina, an armed ex-military man is after her. He'll do anything to have her: blackmail, deception, kidnapping, even murder. When Belinda rejects him, he vows revenge. Can New Orleans Police Detective Frank Renzi save the feisty flutist? See the devastation Hurricane Katrina brought to New Orleans and the pain drug dealers inflict upon a talented teenage jazz player. Then read more books in the exciting Frank Renzi mystery series: Absolution, Natalie's Revenge and Jackpot.

Another heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. In 1990 two robbers stole paintings worth $500 million from the Gardner Museum in Boston. Twenty years later, a ruthless man plans to steal several more. He forces Natalie to help him, but there is no honor among thieves, only treachery. After the heist, the thief intends to kill her. Not only that, NOPD Detective Frank Renzi is hot on her trail. Will Natalie escape? Don't miss the explosive showdown between Frank and Natalie.