Foodie Noir - John Scheck - My Fifth Novel

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 Suzan is an ambitious Seattle food influencer who escapes a brutal past by reinventing herself through cooking, travel, and social media success, only to discover that rising visibility brings danger as well as opportunity. When her growing brand as Sue Chef pulls her into the seductive world of Spanish cuisine, luxury travel, and curated foodie tours, Sue Chef finds herself surrounded by stalkers, volatile lovers, missing women, and a wealthy man willing to use violence to protect his status. With its vivid food writing, glamorous international setting, and high-stakes suspense. 

Criminal Code by John Scheck

 Criminal Code

by John Scheck 

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 When billionaires, celebrities, and political insiders need a problem erased—not argued in court—they turn to the underground network of fixers operating beneath Los Angeles' polished legal world.
Tag is the best of them.

   A former soldier with a brutal past and a strict personal code, Tag delivers justice where the law won't. His only warning to clients is simple: revenge always comes with a price.

   His latest assignment targets Walter Greene, a Hollywood kingmaker whose fortune hides decades of sexual abuse. Breaking into Greene's carefully protected world is dangerous enough. Destroying him ignites something far worse.
Greene hires his own fixer.

   Morgan is every bit as skilled as Tag—and even more ruthless. Instead of becoming sworn enemies, the two professionals recognize each other as craftsmen working opposite sides of the same deadly business.

   As vengeance turns into open warfare, bodies begin to fall, loyalties disappear, and Los Angeles becomes the battleground for two men who know every dirty trick the powerful keep hidden.

   In a city built on money, influence, and secrets, justice belongs to whoever survives.

 

 

Twenty-Seven Calls by John Scheck

 Twenty-Seven  Calls

by John Scheck 

   Escaping one of Philadelphia’s most blighted neighborhoods through U.S. Army military police training, Elizabeth Owens rises to become a detective in her hometown’s police department. But her career is quietly sabotaged by James McMillan, a wealthy real estate mogul she once arrested for assault. Now stuck in the Domestic Violence Unit—one of the department’s least desirable assignments—Owens fights to protect victims in a system that often fails them.

   After a haunting triple murder, Owens and her partner vow to step in when victims make twenty-seven unanswered calls for help, starting with a serial abuser linked to a missing woman. As Owens digs deeper, she uncovers McMillan’s ongoing sabotage and evidence tying him to the disappearances of multiple women. With the help of her partner, a crusading lawyer, and McMillan’s abused mistress seeking revenge, Owens devises a bold plan to take down the untouchable billionaire once and for all.

Village Life

 Burjassot is not a particularly ambitious bike ride, but in our defense, it was really hot. The village bumps right up against Valencia to the west and is full of charm. I could live there with no complaint.

Lives of Crimes - Short Story Collection by John Scheck

     John Scheck’s Lives of Crimes is a darkly compelling collection that examines how crime and punishment ripple through families and friendships. Moving from the bleak shadows of noir to the unlikely humor found in breaking the law, these stories peel back the layers of ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations, some of their own making, others born of proximity and bad luck.

 

     From a young man who uproots his life to visit his brother in a federal prison, to a gambler betting everything on impossible odds, to a weary guard discovering he’s no freer than the men he oversees, Scheck reveals the human pulse beneath violence and retribution, the loyalty, fear, and fragile hope that survive in even the most hostile surroundings.

 

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