TONY BULMER BOOKS
Tony Bulmer’s books mix relentless action with smart-assed dialogue and fast moving readability.
If you like Robert Crais, Elmore Leonard, and cheeky slice of Chandler you will love Tony Bulmer.
Crazy Smart & Ruthless
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This mystery meet cute quickly develops into a high-wire dramedy, when spoiled L.A. socialite Shri Sanchez and her gay bestie, Jay, conspire to find her a phony husband so she might avoid an arranged marriage. Unfortunately for them, the ringer they choose turns out to be Hari Nadir a low echelon MI6 computer analyst, who works part time in his mom and dad’s Indian restaurant. Hari has just witnessed a murder by Russia’s GRU, now they want to murder him and everyone he knows.
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Meet oddball Russian hit team, dour-faced Karla Klebb and her partner Lev Novacek. Taciturn Klebb specializes in the “glove of death” to administer lethal nuclear isotopes to her victims. Ruthless Novacek is a BDSM enthusiast whose unwholesome proclivities and collection of kinky pants fill his targets with terror.
Top of the Russian hit list is Hari Nadir. But, he’s on a mission to Las Vegas to liaise with American top brass from the Army, Navy, Airforce, and Marines. He is going to spill all the gory details of a deadly nuclear plot— if he can only beat back the Russian assassins, the CIA goons, and the imminent threat of an Elvis chapel wedding to the most dangerous socialite in America…
The Smart woman
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Emergency room surgeon Dr. Marcus Brooks has come a long way. A journey that has taken him from Pétion-Ville, Haiti, to Stanford school of Medicine and a life of success in a upmarket suburb of west Los Angeles. He married his childhood sweetheart, career-minded lawyer, Eris. But the couple are finding that the idyl is beginning to teeter. When an operation to remove a bullet from a young girl goes horribly wrong a crisis engulfs the brooks family, as Marcus finds himself suspended and in danger of losing his medical license.
Meanwhile his mother-in-law Selena is fleeing her blazing house, and its looking like she murdered her husband Big Frank Cácerez. But where is the corpse? Is Frank dead, dead drunk, or burned to a cinder? Not even Frank’s showy mistress, Tamara Austin, from Gonzales, Texas knows the answer to that. Federal Agents Jade Hobart and Denny La Salle think they have the answers.
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Now the Brooks’s kids Gardy and Nia are involved, and Marcus is going to have to return to his roots delving deep into the family’s troubled past if their lives are ever going to come good again.
The Frenchie
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Meet Benny Ragazzo, Marine vet and sometime Vegas hoodlum. who is chilling in the ocean side enclave known as the Pacific Palisades. Benny’s psychiatrist thinks that exploring his connection to horses may help ease the post-traumatic stress he suffered whilst serving in Iraq.
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As he is following through on his therapists advice, Benny is kicked in the chest by a spooked polo pony. The cause of the incident, a tiny Frenchie named Lola. Benny quickly discovers the Frenchie is owned by his ex, the glamorous Vivian Montague
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Involvement with clan Montague is the last thing Benny needs, but it’s too late to back out now. Dog-nappers, murderers, and irate cops with donut issues, not to mention corporate malfeasance of every kind, the trouble comes thick and fast.
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​Lola the Frenchie meanwhile has a point of view throughout. Sexy-time dog friends from Beverly Hills, feature heavily, as do sausages and a plethora of tummy-ache table snacks snatched from the shouty humans. It’s enough to make a brave little dog go hide in the laundry room, or have gratuitous poopage issues in the back of a luxury automobile.
South of Sunset
Widely available in E-book format
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Mia is new in town, but there are already problems at the office, and now she is late for work again. Worse, her love life is non-existent, but she is working on that. Her overbearing mother doesn’t approve of her choices. But Mia didn’t listen and now and she has a corpse in the trunk of her car.
Big bucks sports agent Ronnie Oberman has problems too. Divorce, it’s an ugly thing, expensive too. Murder is the answer, it has to be, but dialing up Vegas mobster Joe Carpathian to get the job done might just be the worst mistake Ronnie has ever made.
Benny Ragazzo shouldn’t care either way. He shipped out of the Marine Corps years ago and the years of death are behind him. Benny digs old movies—they bring him peace. He’s also seeing a shrink, working on himself, struggling to find the newer higher person he knows he can be. Trouble is he gets a late night call from his erstwhile boss Joe Carpathian and now he’s involved in murder.
Beyond the Edge of Paradise
Widely available in E-book format
Driven to avenge the murder of her Colombian mother, by the Medellín Cartel, hot-shot American lawyer, Sayona Sherman, of the Organized Crime Task Force, is driven to hunt the killers and bring them to justice by any means necessary.
Racing from Los Angeles, to the rainforests of Peru, with trigger-happy FBI agent, Troy Cummings, Sayona’s mission: to capture a high-level narco-pharmacist, and make the connections that will break the case.
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But powerful enemies stand against Sherman & Cummings. The charming and sophisticated industrialist Doña La Tundain, CEO of the shadowy Quintralla Corporation, has manufactured ZB-29 a genetic drug that will change the future of mankind and the tentacles of her power are far reaching.
As shocking family history, hidden by years unfolds, Sherman & Cummings battle to protect the future of the human genome and discover the dark truth about themselves in this hard-hitting thriller.
Elected For Death
ISBN-13: 978-1523481194
Everyone has killed someone at college, right? Best bury those indiscretions deep, especially when you are on the way to becoming the next governor of New York…
All American hockey legend Lex “Bulldog” Logan, heir to one of Manhattan’s oldest banking dynasties is struggling to become the person he knows he can be.
But that struggle isn’t going so well—the old darkness is rising, and soon he will have to kill again—
Meanwhile, blackmailing socialite, Stacy Ryder, isn’t ready to settle down, but her parents are insisting. Perhaps unrequited college crush Lex Logan
would be the perfect match? But the course of true love never did run smooth,
especially when you have a limo full of crazed relatives, a T.V. Evangelist, and the FBI on your tail.
Twisted Tales
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Welcome to Twisted Tales—Twelve tales of murder and redemption from acclaimed crime writer Tony Bulmer.
This long-awaited collection of short stories deep delves into a mysterious world of high-rollers and lowlifes, and brings you twelve transgressive tales where the only guarantee is a savage twist of the unexpected.
This sequel to the wildly successful Twisted Fates collection is essential reading for mystery and crime fans everywhere.
Now available as ebook
Manhattan Takedown
ISBN-13: 978-1514180129
When the world’s wealthiest financier conspires with America’s greatest enemy to destroy the global financial system, deep cover agent Karyn Kane of the CIA is thrown into a deadly new mission.
Will she be able to stop the destruction of the world’s great financial capitals? Can she rescue the wife of America’s greatest diplomat from the clutches of global terrorism? And is her own boss getting ready to murder her? Relentless twists, endless double-dealing and a mystery so intense it will have you guessing to the very last page.
Smart, sassy, and relentlesly entertaining. Manhattan Takedown the new high-concept super-thriller from Tony Bulmer is available now.
Conspiracy of Fire
ISBN-13: 978-1500525552
Karyn Kane is a deep cover operative for the CIA specializing in operations that run outside of the limits of United States Law. Conspiracy of Fire sees her pitted against a global corporation that has developed a limitless new form of energy production. But the worlds of money politics and power are closely intertwined, as Kane quickly discovers.
Will the deadly conspiracy herald a terrifying new political elite, plunging the world into an age of global catastrophe? Can Karyn Kane unravel the darkest most brutal mystery of her career in a plot that reaches to the very heart of the U.S. Government?
Twisted Fates
ISBN-13: 978-1508705970
Twelve Tales of Murder and Redemption From Los Angeles California.Everyone knows the City of Angels is a crazy town, but often the craziest of fates are the ones that fall upon you in quite unexpected ways.
There is the sedate tea party in Beverly Hills that hides a most unwholesome secret. There is the tale of murder on the 15th fairway, and death and greed on the frigid mountainside. But that is just the begining…
However death may come, you can rest assured that it will be most unexpected in this twisted collection of short stories
Dead Famous
ISBN-13: 978-1480076365
​The further adventures of Danny Costello can be found in Dead Famous. Hard-hitting and compelling, Dead Famous deals the inside dope on a cast of Hollyweird insiders who will do what ever it takes to succeed. Witty, original and highly entertaining, this book takes you to the dark beating heart of Los Angeles and beyond, into a world of money, murder and the insatiable need for success at any price.
The Sex Net
ISBN-978-1480096844
​Internet dating—who can you trust? When Danny Costello calls at Corin Cabrillo’s pad for a Jacuzzi and a Mai Tai, he is expecting a hot date in the Hollywood Hills, but it is murder he finds instead. Turns out his date is a con artist, smuggling diamonds for the mob.
Now the diamonds have vanished and every low-life in town thinks Danny took them. Worse, the gorgeous Corin is missing and her flatmate Mimi has been brutally murdered. Mobster Frank Rothstein, is a stone cold killer, and ruthless with it. He wants his diamonds back on the hurry up.
$48 million is a lot of ice to lose, and Frank is holding Danny responsible. Murder, blackmail, betrayal, Can Danny find the girl, the diamonds, and the murderer too? He better, big Frank says, or he will have problems. Terminal problems.
The Fine Art of Murder
ISBN-13: 978-1492380351
Los Angeles, California. Fine Art aficionado Javier Elzorra is a moneyman for the Sureño cartel. He also owns the world’s greatest private collection of Renaissance art. So when he gets brutally murdered, his cleaner figures no one will notice just one missing painting— trouble is, the painting is a long-lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, subject to a cruel and violent history of greed, obsession, and murderous conspiracy and now, once again, it has gone missing.
The Fine Art of Murder traces the shocking history of this great masterpiece through five hundred turbulent years, as it shapes the destiny of everyone it touches, unraveling a mystery so surprising and deadly that even the world’s greatest art recovery investigator, Professor Cornelius Franklin might finally have met his match.
Killing for Kicks
Tony’s early books, Carnival of Whores, Killing for Kicks, and Cheating Death are currently out of print. Re-issues coming soon.