Canzio Ricci survived a parachute jump behind enemy lines during WWII. Figuring he has won one roll of the dice, he is determined to do it his way on the next roll. Coming home after the war he becomes the smartest gangster on the east coast, living large, driving big cars, and having beautiful ladies on his arm. Never busted, never needed a lawyer, he outsmarted police chiefs, mayors, and other crew bosses. From cons and scams to loan sharkin in Vegas, its all there. Philadelphia reporter Sal Luca gives details of what this very wise guy got away with in CANZIO: A Sal Luca Gig.

From the mean streets of DC the vampire Frances searches for senators and their wives. The human vampires, led by Avi Asher, are on the hunt for Frances and her partner. Also, Avi's hunters are about to lose their civil rights by the SCOV, the Senate Committee on Vampires. But as the drama unfolds the senators use Avi and his human vampires to track down the undead vampire Frances and her partner. But the story does not end there as Frances drains a 'made guy' and the mob is drawn into the hunt.

Deceitful, the first of the Avi Asher Novels, is filled with suspense and intrigue. Flani Gerber is a radical German peacenik bent upon being a legend. Anton von Knecht is a former German paratrooper accused of war crimes. Jack Trimble is a rummy correspondent on the trail of the story of his career. General Cunliffe is deluding himself into believing he, and only he, can save the two Germanies from each other. Margot Huntoon, wounded in the war as a young girl, falls in love with Professor Jonathan Avram Asher and ends up encountering a plot filled with deceit. Avi Asher is on the path to saving an innocent enemy and unlocking a world-news-making deception.

Frances Dracul, the undead vampire, survives a hit by two wiseguys from the Ernie Dutch Getti family. She starts to exact her revenge against the mob. Avi Asher and his team of human vampires are called in to assist the police of West Haven, Connecticut, and become immersed in the culture of the Contralto family of gangsters. The team is on the trail of Frances and her new partner Vinny, and are pulled into a mob war of Connecticut made guys and a New York crime family.

Elona is a vampire existing for four hundred years. She goes by the code of the modern vampire and that is never to take the blood of an innocent unwilling victim. Avi Asher's wife, Shashana, is attacked by the vampire Count Wilhelm Frederich. Avi must become a vampire hunter and in league with Elona searches for the Count. Avi encounters the lust and passion of the vampire postulates that travel with fully turned vampires as their leader. From a cult killing in Key West to the heights of the financial world in New York City Avi Asher is on the prowl for those vampires who have broken the code.

Andre and Frances, centuries old undead, are draining victims all over the City of Philadelphia. ADA Gwen Irving and the police cannot believe it is the work of vampires, but Avi Asher knows better. Avi along with the human vampire Edvard form a league of postulates to hunt them down, stake them, and turn them into dust. From the undead to the human vampires to the postulates none may break the code of 'never taking the blood of an unwilling victim', to do so is to forfeit their immortality.

Canzio Ricci survived a parachute jump behind enemy lines during WWII. Figuring he has won one roll of the dice, he is determined to do it his way on the next roll. Coming home after the war he becomes the smartest gangster on the east coast, living large, driving big cars, and having beautiful ladies on his arm. Never busted, never needed a lawyer, he outsmarted police chiefs, mayors, and other crew bosses. From cons and scams to loan sharkin in Vegas, its all there. Philadelphia reporter Sal Luca gives details of what this very wise guy got away with in CANZIO: A Sal Luca Gig.