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Writing as Macon Lence, ILL GOTTEN GAINS: DIARY OF A GENTLE GRIFTER is a fast-paced Las Vegas-y page turner.
Macon Lence doesn’t have the inner struggles of Tony Soprano, the charisma of Thomas Crown, nor the psychopathy of Tom Ripley, but he’s decidedly a criminal…yet in a softer, newfangled kind of a way. He’s a self-proclaimed ‘gentle grifter,’ with a big heart and a pesky conscience.
So, when a body mysteriously shows up in his upscale casino hotel suite and Sin City’s lady mob boss demands he take on a dreadful task, our anti-hero must first contend with murder, kidnapping, and blackmail, then engage in a dangerous game of cat and mouse in order to save the day.
Spanning Las Vegas, Nevada and Palm Springs, California, ILL GOTTEN GAINS: DIARY OF A GENTLE GRIFTER is a darkly funny, twist-and-turn crime thriller that never takes itself too seriously. It’s a cross between Get Shorty and Casino, with quirky-cool Carl Hiaasen-esk friends and foes, tons of amazing food and drink, only a few dead bodies, and a will-they or won’t-they love story subplot.
My Skyler Moore novels are fun, light-hearted adventures. They're the kind of books you pick up at the airport for a long flight or toss in your bag for a day at the beach.
When Skyler Moore spends the summer at her seaside cottage with her celebrity-chef best friend...they have no idea that murder will be on the menu.
It’s Christmastime in Santa Fe, and a famed opera singer is being terrorized by an unknown scoundrel. It’s up to Skyler and friends to make sure the diva will live to sing again.
When a conniving saboteur begins to wreak havoc on celebrity chef Brenda Braxton while in Sin City, it looks like her career will go up in flames.
Skyler and Brenda, along with pop singer Carissa Lamb, were supposed to enjoy a relaxing Alaskan cruise vacation, but the waves keep coming and coming.