That Dog Won't Hunt (8 page)

978-1-55469-282-8 $9.95 pb

“My name is Rick Montoya. But you can call me the Spider. Other people do.”

When Rick Montoya returns to the city to try to clear his name, he discovers someone is living in his apartment. Before he can find out who it is, the apartment house goes up in flames. Was the firebombing meant for him? Who exactly was killed in the fire? And why? What was his landlady doing at home in the middle
of the afternoon? The questions mount up, along with the suspects.

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978-1-55469-244-6 $9.95 pb

“Look, man, real life is not always pretty. Sometimes you gotta do hard things. You have to protect what's yours in this life.
No one else will do that for you.”

Rosario Gomez gave up gang life after his brother was killed in a street fight. Now all he wants to do is finish night school, be a good father and work hard enough at his job at the supermarket to get promoted. But when an old friend from the barrio shows up, Rosario realizes he was fooling himself if he thought he could ignore his violent past.