Book Cover: Wait Until The Dark Of Night
Part of the Art Lee Action and Adventure Series series:

BRAND NEW!! Book Two of Arthur A. Lee's Mystery and Adventure Series. “Wait Until The Dark Of Night” is a spin-off from Lee's successful “Morgan Crew Murder Mystery Series.” Joseph Cross, who helped Morgan Crew in "A Deadly London Fog," is an American ex-patriot who owns a luxurious casino in London. He is high up in the criminal world of the UK, running smuggling operations and dealing in illegal diamonds.His worst enemy, a Member of Parliament, asks for his help to rescue her son, who was kidnapped by an African warlord while doing mission work in Uganda. Cross sees this as an opportunity to get her and the police off his back and agrees to help. He makes use of his criminal contacts and hires a mercenary group to back up his plans. He risks his own life over and over, giving the reader a constant sense of suspense and fear, never knowing what will happen next.And, despite his criminal reputation, Cross maintains he is willing to put his life at risk because ‘It is the right thing to do.’ The character is what Lee likes to describe as the “good bad guy.”

Published:
Publisher: Jacquelyn Lee
Editors:
Jacquelyn Lee

Cover Artists:
Jacquelyn Lee

Genres:
action & adventure

Tags:
action, adventure, Africa

Excerpt:

A Mafia Love Story

Three Families is the suspenseful saga of a Romeo and Juliet-like love affair that lives and grows for five decades of time beginning in 1958 in Northern New Jersey. The lovers, young Tony Moretti and Teresa Falzone, are from competing families – the modern day Capulets and Montagues – crime families of New Jersey and New York. The competition between the families is a constant wedge driven between the lovers, threatening to separate them, but it cannot keep them apart, until unforeseen disaster forces its way into their lives.The mystery, suspense and surprises of this thrilling novel will keep you turning page after page to see what happens next. The details of life within the Mafia of the 1950’s and 1960’s are often frightening but always revealing of the true inner character of Tony and Teresa. You will face the brutality, the fear, and the shocking events that affect the characters in this powerful story of life within the Mafia. Arthur A. Lee is also the author of the well known Morgan Crew Murder Mystery Series.

Published:
Publisher: Jacquelyn Lee
Editors:
Jacquelyn Lee

Cover Artists:
Jacquelyn Lee

Genres:
action & adventure, Mafia, thriller

Tags:
Costa Nostra, Mafia, murder, thriller

Excerpt:

At the request of Joseph Cross's old friend and mentor Chris Rochester, Joseph (Wait Until The Dark Of Night) and Morgan Crew work together to find out who is behind the deaths of Argentinian farmers. They find themselves up against a cold and blood thirsty killer who will stop at nothing to take all the land for himself.

In this suspenseful thriller, Morgan becomes more like his friend Cross, running head long into certain death time and again. And while investigating the murders, Morgan is wooed by a beautiful woman who wants to be his mistress.

Published:
Publisher: Jacquelyn Lee
Editors:
Jacquelyn Lee

Cover Artists:
Jacquelyn Lee

Genres:
mystery, suspense, thriller

Tags:
military, mystery, suspense, thriller

Excerpt:

Morgan Crew is once again drawn into a mind spinning mystery of murders and drug gangs, this time in Los Angeles, California. A young Italian gang member – Vinnie Escardo – convinces Morgan to travel to L.A. and find the killer of ‘Louie Lips’, the leader of a gang of thieves headquartered at the San Pedro Harbor district. Vinnie is suspected of the murder, not by the police but by his own gang. The penalty will be death if the real murderer is not found.Morgan is confronted with rival gangs – Italian, Afro-American, and Asian – and corrupt police, all in conflict over the prospect of importing drugs into San Pedro Harbor. At every turn, Morgan's investigation is thwarted by murders and lies, and at the same time he is forced to survive one perilous situation after another aimed at getting him out of the picture at any cost.Morgan returns home intent on contacting his friends in Washington, DC and have them clean house in San Pedro. But disaster strikes in the shocking end of this story. The twists and turns of this story will make it hard for you to put this book down.

Published:
Publisher: Jacquelyn Lee
Editors:
Jacquelyn Lee

Cover Artists:
Jacquelyn Lee

Genres:
mystery, thriller

Tags:
suspense

Excerpt:

Part Two: And Now Revenge

This exciting book is Part Two of Murder To A Slow Jazz Beat, by renowned mystery author, Art Lee. And it is Book 11 of the Morgan Crew Murder Mystery Series. At the end of Part One, “The Killing,” Morgan knows he has rid Europe of a notorious paid killer and has helped to protect Israel from terrorists. He and his gorgeous wife Sandy are ready to fly home from Paris. What he does not realize is that there is a price to pay for his deeds, and now certain secret criminal organizations want Morgan dead. He waits one day too many to leave Paris and is arrested for a murder he did not commit. He is held in a Paris prison that is full of Arab terrorists, and Sandy fears he will be killed there. Out of desperation, Sandy goes to a wealthy friend, Joseph Cross (introduced in A Deadly London Fog and starred in Wait Until The Dark of Night). Cross owns a famous casino in London and is an adventurer who makes most of his money smuggling diamonds and weapons. He and his large, burly protector Billy Volgar agree to help. What follows is one terrifying attempt after another to try to prevent the assassination of Morgan’s whole family. It’s a thriller that will leave you breathless with suspense.

Published:
Publisher: Jacquelyn Lee
Editors:
Jacquelyn Lee

Cover Artists:
Jacquelyn Lee

Genres:
mystery, thriller

Tags:
France, mystery, Paris

Excerpt:

Part One: The Killing

Morgan Crew and his friend, Detective Bob Sommers, travel to Paris, France to attend the funeral of a college friend of theirs. LeRoy Manns was a musician playing in a jazz band in a Paris Jazz Cellar. His death was reported as an accident but Morgan soon discovers that he was murdered. Despite his better judgement – and that little voice in the back of Morgan’s head that tells him to run away from trouble – Morgan stays in Paris to find LeRoy’s murderer. That seemingly simple task, at least simple for Morgan Crew, turns into an international incident involving terrorists and professional killers. In Part One of this mystery, Morgan is successful in finding the killer but the reader will have to wait for Part Two in order to find out if Morgan’s task is finished.

Published:
Publisher: Jacquelyn Lee
Editors:
Jacquelyn Lee

Cover Artists:
Jacquelyn Lee

Genres:
mystery, thriller

Tags:
France

Excerpt:

Morgan Crew is hunting terrorists who have stolen a top secret file from one of the Crew Family businesses. And the terrorists are hunting Morgan Crew. A small group of Communists and Arabs from Al Qaida have formed an alliance to get what they need and will kill anyone who gets in their way. Federal Agents demand answers, but they leave Morgan and his family unprotected as he begins to ¬¬-piece the clues together. Morgan goes a step too far and is kidnapped, and when the Agents seem indifferent, Sandy is left to put her own life in peril to find him.This exciting spy novel takes the reader from Morgan's home in California to New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Texas, Colorado, the Mexican Chihuahuan Desert, and Cuba, through gripping action and suspense to a surprising conclusion. And the young and beautiful terrorist, Tamara, will grab your heart.

Published:
Publisher: Jacquelyn Lee
Editors:
Jacquelyn Lee

Cover Artists:
Jacquelyn Lee

Genres:
mystery, thriller

Tags:
mercenary, mystery, spy

Excerpt:

Morgan and Sandy are trapped in the isolation of the West Texas desert along the border with Mexico, where they are once again faced with danger and death. They confront the violent and hate filled Sheriff of a small desert border town, where murder is as ordinary as the desert heat. An armed militia group, drug smugglers, and a group smuggling illegal Mexican aliens across the border all hunt Morgan and Sandy. A giant of a bounty hunter and a woman, the Comanche Indian pilot of a scraped together biplane, are their only friends.They risk their lives to save their friend - their child’s nanny - Betsy Concanon, who has been charged with murder. They are surrounded by killings and mystery and more danger than they have seen before. And there is a surprise at virtually every turn of the page.

Published:
Publisher: Jacquelyn Lee
Editors:
Jacquelyn Lee

Cover Artists:
Jacquelyn Lee

Genres:
mystery

Tags:
Texas

Excerpt:

Once again Morgan and Sandy Crew are thrown into life threatening danger. A web of intrigue is spun around them as spies, mercenaries, and a mysterious killer threaten Morgan and Sandy. Some of these dangerous people are hunting a traitor who is selling secrets, and some want to protect that traitor from being exposed. Morgan and Sandy are in the middle of this and must expose the traitor to save themselves. The highest ranking people in American Intelligence seem to be depending on Morgan and Sandy to solve the mystery and stop the murders. The story takes the reader from a top secret CIA facility to California, to Virginia, to Seattle, and to Washington, DC. This fast paced espionage mystery takes you for a thrilling ride you will not forget.

Published:
Publisher: Jacquelyn Lee
Editors:
Jacquelyn Lee

Cover Artists:
Jacquelyn Lee

Genres:
mystery, suspense

Tags:
espionage

Excerpt:

A Crew family friend, someone Morgan has thought of since childhood as an Uncle, has committed suicide at his family’s ancestral home south of London. Once again Morgan’s family sends him off, this time to attend the funeral and find out what drove the old man to kill himself. A vicious criminal from London’s underworld demands control of a bank owned by Morgan’s ‘Uncle’. A tempest of overwhelming mystery envelopes Morgan and his wife after they enlist the aid of an American expatriate to fight their fight. The scenes shift from the darkest criminal haunts of East London to the luxury of the Cote d’Zur in this spellbinding mystery that will keep you wondering just who is the bad guy and who isn’t.

Published:
Publisher: Jacquelyn Lee
Editors:
Jacquelyn Lee

Cover Artists:
Jacquelyn Lee

Genres:
mystery, thriller

Tags:
London, Morgan Crew, mystery

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