THREE HEART-STOPPING POLICE PROCEDURALS AT A KILLER PRICE! This nicely-priced bundle of Volumes 1-3 of Kimberly Amatos Jasmine Steele series is made to order for fans of hard-boiled police procedurals, badass female sleuths, and bargains. Those who cant get enough of the exciting new wave of hard-boiled women sleuths, created by writers like Megan Abbott, Laura Lippmann, Lisa Lutz, and Vicki Hendricks will love Amatos take-no-prisoners style, her unflinching attention to harrowing detail, and her tough-as-nails but soft-hearted detective. Lovers of traditional mysteries will appreciate the web of fierce loyalty tempered with fearful caution that links Jazzs tiny but hardy support system-both at work and at home. Somehow or other, in each book, Amato manages to mix all the excitement of an action thriller with the swirling emotions of a mainstream psychological novel. STEELE RESOLVE Dont think youre untouchable...you or your son. Then a dial tone... Home is no haven with that that kind of caller on the line. Shrewd, hardened New York homicide detective Jasmine (Jazz) Steeles just come back from a grisly crime scene involving the body of a brutally-beaten young girl, the second shes investigated this week. That was horrendous, but with these eight words, ending ominously in your son, Jazzs immediate fear is for her nephew Chase, whos already been through hell in his seven short years. In Kimberly Amatos hard-boiled yet deeply emotional police procedural, no one is spared tough breaks and turbulent anguish. A lesser cop than Jazz would barely be able to cope. With a shadow on Chase and the aid of her friends grace-under-fire and brandy-fueled heart-to-hearts, Jazz--who has more tude than even the toughest investigator, male or female--navigates the cruel streets of New York City while struggling to keep custody of the only family she has left, doggedly in search of the elusive, psychopathic murderer who seems to be killing off women who look suspiciously like someone close to Jazz... and shes not willing to lose yet another person she loves. MELTING STEELE In Jasmine Steeles heartbreaking new case, an entire familys been viciously murdered. Hard-boiled alert: author Kimberly Amato pulls no punches. The mothers throat was slit while trying to call for help and the father was shot in the chest, then gruesomely sliced up while still alive, like a scene from a horror film. Also found, the body of their young son, about Jazzs sons age, left in the closet with a snapped neck. But its the remaining clues to a missing fourth victim--a teenage daughter named Kaley--that leave her reeling. Kaleys seemingly disappeared without a trace. Soon Jazz discovers that the family had plenty of disturbing skeletons in its closet. Skeletons possibly warranting hiring a hit man on the Internet... BREAKING STEELE Gory video game violence comes home to roost when two store managers are brutally murdered in the back room of their gaming shop just before peak holiday season. The corporation that owns the store is doing everything it can to keep the matter quiet-but they wont succeed if detective Jasmine Steele cracks the case. Because said corporation has plenty of skeletons in its closet; and one of them is far too familiar to our heroine... Kimberly Amato serves up a heart-pounding, chilling addition to the Jasmine Steele hard-boiled mystery series-a fast-paced police procedural thats as gripping as it is eerily personal. And it comes with a captivating (although, as Jazz might say, a slightly nerdy) bonus: a heaping dose of the fascinating ins and outs of video game subculture. Which is far more murderous than the average reader would suspect.