"Suspenseful and realistic. Matcha does a superb job. California crime with excellent mood and setting." Los Angeles Times
PI Johnny Church gets lost in a sultry maze of lies, lust, and bullets—where every kiss could be his last.
In the small New Jersey town of Arden, private eye Mack Barry—war-scarred, cynical, and itching for a new fight—takes on a case that feels like a personal crusade. A grieving father hires him to find the “fat cat” pushing drugs that drove his daughter to suicide.
Wealthy San Francisco widow Irene Wilson convinces drunken writer Morgan O'Keefe to help clear her of the lingering suspicion that she murdered her husband, whom she mistook for a prowler and shot. 
In John B. Thompson's sizzling, pulp noir classic The Eager Ones, three women recklessly defy conventional morality to get what they want -- Angela teases, Polly pleases, and Sissie takes love where she finds it. Their raw passions ignite a small, rural town, changing it forever. Back in print for the first time in over 60 years.
Murder With Love is the first adventure for PI John Church and, according to Mystery File, "it's one of those cases that gets him so personally involved that you wonder when it's over whether there will ever be another one." There was one more, Murder on her Mind, but that was the end for this long-lost, hard-boiled crime series, finally back-in-print after 60 years.