Edward Izzi

When Chicago mobster Don Carlo Marchese is found hanging from the 18th story window of the Blackstone Hotel, Reporter Paul Crawford of the Chicago Sun Times is assigned to investigate. He discovers that Don Carlo was brokering art works for the Vatican’s Pope Emeritus Honorius V. Hermann Kalksc...

Detective Philip Dorian of the 16th Chicago District is called to investigate the serial killings of retired, former pedophile priests in the Chicagoland area. It becomes later discovered that Monsignor Joseph Kilbane, chief of staff to the Cardinal, had previously approached his childhood friend...

Chicago criminal attorney Michael Prescott is in Rome, visiting his best friend, Monsignor Robert Cavalieri, a Special Diplomat to the Vatican. He is informed that Giovanni Cardinal Masellis, the “Mafia Cardinal”, who was once the most evil cardinal in his day, has made a deathbed confession rega...

Dr. David Fazio is a maternity physician at Chicago-Western Medical Hospital. He is a handsome, divorced baby doctor who has more than his share of personal flaws. But Dr. Fazio has one good moral quality going for him: He is a pro-life obstetrician. In a state where late term abortions are now l...

Detroit Detective John Valentino knows El Camino Drive all too well. His father was murdered there on Halloween, 1978. Antonio Valentino was killed after work by three men, alleging he was having an affair with one of their wives. Claiming self-defense, the murderers are exonerated, believing tha...

“The City of Chicago is up for grabs.” Chicago Tribune Reporter Larry McKay has his hands full. He has been assigned to investigate the recent assassination of Chicago’s Mayor Janice Kollar in a tumultuous summer that has included riots, looting, and a city out of control. With Mayor Ko...

Chicago Attorney Robert Mazzara has just been informed of the suicide death of his childhood friend, Marco Pezza. The two of them grew up together in a small suburb in Chicago during the turbulent sixties and seventies, when the issues of household violence were seldom ever addressed. Along with ...

Detective Palazzola of Detroit’s Third Precinct is good at catching the bad guys, especially those who commit heinous crimes. But he becomes frustrated with the judicial system, when criminals are escaping justice. Criminals are being dismissed on a technicality, exonerated, or given are given le...

Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Paul Crawford is asked to investigate a series of recent murders he eventually calls the ‘Houdini Victims.’ He explores the disappearance of a corporate executive who vanishes from a parking garage in the Chicago Loop. There is no body, DNA evidence, surveillance...

Antonio ‘Tony Napoli’ Sorrentino has closed his legendary restaurant in the heart of the West Loop. It has been a gathering place for prominent politicians, famous entertainers, renowned dignitaries, and of course…well-known mobsters. Often dubbed the ‘Artie Bucco’ of the Chicago Outfit, 87-yea...

In 1964, Detroit was patrolled by racist police led by tactical four-man patrols who controlled the city. Blacks were harassed for simply walking the streets after midnight. In the 13th Precinct, their ‘Tac Squad’ was called ‘The Big Four’. They pursued blacks, many of them abused and detained. V...