Hillary Bell Locke – författare

How can you make money from a painting that you don''t own, can''t steal, and couldn''t fence even if you succeeded? What if you convince people you already had stolen it? An assortment of shady and brutal players in Collar Robber think that—leaving a corpse or two along the way—they can use that bright idea to gouge fifty million dollars from Jay Davidovich''s employer, Transoxana Insurance Company. Davidovich, first met in 2012''s Jail Coach, is a Loss Prevention Specialist. Fifty million would be a good loss to prevent.

Cynthia Jakubek from But Remember Their Names has jumped from the gilded drudgery of lawyering with a big Wall Street firm to the terrifying adventure of starting her own solo practice in Pittsburgh. One of her clients wants to help Davidovich - for a hefty price - and stay alive in the process. Another wants to get married in the Catholic Church to a fiancée who was briefly wed years before to someone who now has an interest in the painting. An annulment is needed

As Davidovich and Jakubek face brawls on street corners and in court rooms, confrontations in brothels, confessionals, and Yankee Stadium luxury suites, and Tasers, machine guns, and religious vestments used as weapons, they have to remember that "take no prisoners" isn''t always a metaphor...

Eight colonists were killed at the original Battle of Lexington, but just before Thanksgiving, at the Pittsburgh Museum of American History, the life-sized diorama of that battle has nine bodies.

The ninth is a murder victim, Thomas Bradshaw, a prominent Pittsburgh connoisseur, and Cynthia Jakubec will be drawn into one of the sideshows surrounding the investigation.

Jakubec is a working-class gal who’s about to jump from Main Street to Wall Street on the strength of her Harvard Law School degree—and marry a budding novelist as well—when the big recession in the fall of 2008 puts her dream on hold. She finds herself working, temporarily she hopes, as a legal intern at a Pittsburgh law firm that does “street law” instead of “suite law.” The firm is representing Thomas Bradshaw’s daughter, who may be a material witness to the crime—or worse. As Jakubec follows the investigation, the trail takes her from a black church in Pittsburgh’s ghetto to the very luxury building in midtown Manhattan, where she dreams of working, and gives her a broken nose and a broken heart along the way.

Before her Wall Street dream is again within her grasp, Jakubec will come to appreciate Robert F. Kennedy’s memorable advice: “Forgive your enemies—but remember their names.”

Jay Davidovich is an insurance company apparatchik. Big, blond, and Jewish with Ukrainian parents and an American attitude, Jay joined the National Guard in the late 1990s so that the taxpayers could put him through college but ended up serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. His job at Trans/Oxana is to prevent losses that the company has insured against, especially losses caused by certain unpleasant people.

Hollywood pretty boy Kent Trowbridge plays late-night bumper cars in his Ferrari with two palm trees and a median after New Paradigm Studios bought an eight-figure Trans/Oxana policy insuring fulfillment of his contract as a major performing artist.

In the city of San Gabriel, unlike Los Angeles County, a second DUI is not treated as "boys will be boys"; Trowbridge is going to do some county time. And since there won''t be any director yelling "Cut!" when things get dicey on the inside, Jay figures that Trowbridge won''t be able to perform much of anything once he gets out—unless he finds him a jail coach.

Enter Katrina Thompson, whose past includes jail time, a stint in the Marines, a daughter, and a hustler named Stan Chaladian. The first will help Jay, the second will impress him, the third will charm him, and the fourth will almost kill him—but that''s life in the loss-prevention business.