Mariah Stewart - Dead Certain

This book is about three men who get together in a cell at a local area courthouse and decide that they were going to play a game. A game that is as deadly to themselves as it is to their victims.

The trilogy continues when it's Vincent Giordano, or as he calls himself in this book, Vince Daniels, goes in and attempts to complete the game that Curtis had started. He starts out by shooting the business partner of Amanda Crosby. He lucked out when Amanda was the one being investigated as the one who'd killed Derek England, the investigation is being lead by Sean Mercer, chief of police. Her brother is also a police officer, and Evan Crosby thinks that Sean is barking up the wrong tree.

When Marian, Amanda's business next door neighbor, was found dead by none other than the suspect herself, things seemed to turn for the better for Ms. Crosby, but not so good for those she loves. Amanda is no longer the prime suspect, now Sean Mercer is beginning to think she's a possible victim.

It wasn't till Vince's girlfriend arrived in Sean's office a short few days after her own business partner was found murdered did they have a plan to take Vince Giordano off the streets.

Mariah Stewart - Dead Wrong

This book is about three men who get together in a cell at a local area courthouse and decide that they were going to play a game. A game that is as deadly to themselves as it is to their victims.

This book is based sort of on a movie where two men get together and agree to kill people for the other. Three men in the book does the same as in the movie.

Enter Curtis Alan Channing, a man who had an awful past in the being of his mother who pimped him out so she could get cash for drugs. A past in the being of his mother's rape and murder of which he had been a witness. What got him caught up in this ring of murder? He was arrested on a ticket charge for another man with his same name. In the time he was in lock up he met up with an Archer Lowell and a Vincent Giordano. It was here that they conspired to commit murder, where Channing would kill anyone who got on the bad side of Giordano, Giordano would kill anyone who got on the bad side of Lowell, and Lowell would kill anyone who got on the bad side of Channing. A circle that started with Channing, and Lowell had every intention of it ending with Giordano.

This book deals with Channing taking care of any who got in Giordano's way. Namely those who was telling him that he couldn't be with his sons...or in the case of his mother-in-law, just because. Mara Douglas, a child advocate, and the judge were his primary targets. But Channing got something messed up. Instead of going after Mara Douglas, he went after anyone in the phone book who was named Mary, or was just listed as M Douglas.

Once he was done with the first two or so killings, he went after the mother-in-law and the judge. He figured he was done, then he realized his mistake.

And that was when he went after Mara Douglas. In the meantime, Mara was in the company of an FBI agent, an agent that was suggested by her sister, who is a profiler for the FBI.

In the end Mara survived, but Channing wound up committing suicide.