"In 'Under Blood Moons,' J. J. Partridge pulls back the curtain on the drama of parole board hearings and unpopular decisions. 'Under Blood Moons' introduces a not-to-be-forgotten hero, the raffish Jake Fournier. As a former boozer and opiate abuser who still suffers migraines and PTSD resulting from the loss of an arm in the Iraq War and the death of his pregnant wife at the hands of a hit-and-run driver, he makes an improbable parole board member....

"The first comprehensive history of probation and parole-and a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing both-from the former Probation Commissioner of New York City"--

The plus-size parole officer returns in this new novel by the author of Anthony Award finalist Devil's Food and Double Espresso. This time around, a sexy colleague "borrows" Loretta Kovacs's partner-and paramour-Frank Marvelli for an assignment in San Francisco, and jealous Loretta tails them. Then Marvelli is kidnapped, and the women must team up to find him and nab the fugitive in question-a successful ice-cream entrepreneur . . .

Overweight New Jersey parole officer Loretta Kovacs goes undercover on a weight-reducing farm in Florida. She is to investigate drug-money laundering by a parole-breaker from her state. On the surface an ideal assignment, but the arrival of killers spoils it. By the author of Bad Apple.

New Jersey parole officers Loretta Kovacs and Frank Marvelli are ordered to forestall the contract killing of a gangster by finding the hit man before he strikes. The gangster is being held by police under the witness protection program.

"Sidney O'Keefe just wants to spend a peaceful weekend alone with his wife and daughter in the vacation paradise of Lake Placid, New York, now that he's been paroled after a 10-year stretch in a maximum security prison. But any illusion of a peaceful future is destroyed when his 11-year-old daughter Chloe suddenly disappears from the iconic beach scene, leaving Sidney and his wife Penny stricken with fear and panic. When it's determined that his old...

Jack Mabry, a parole officer days away from retirement, is asked to review the case of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, in prison for arson. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man's decision with his wife Lucetta have profound and unexpected effects on them both.

"Told over the course of forty-eight hours, seventeen-year-old Antonio Sullivan heads back to his old life in Des Moines, Washington, after being released from a youth detention center, but toxic old relationships and unforseen challenges make staying on the straight-and-narrow nearly impossible."--