Chop Shop Crime Books
Car thieves and the chop shop that buys from them combine to create high-octane stories of hot cars, hot crimes, and hot times in Dallas, Texas. In “The Cadillac Job,” loyalty beyond the battlefield sends Carly and Knuckles on one last mission to save a dying teammate. When Carly isn’t slinging drinks at the local VFW, she boosts cars—a job much like the one she had on a vehicle recovery team in Afghanistan. Except her team isn’t the same. Sweets is dying. And the last time Knuckles scouted for a Mustang, he ended up at a dude ranch off highway 175. Her commanding officer is different, too. She no longer answers to Captain Shrader. She answers to Huey, and the consequences for disobeying orders are deadly. Determined to save Sweets, Carly steals cars to pay for a lifesaving surgery. But progress is slow, and Sweets is running out of time—until the Cadillac Job. The payout is big. So are the risks. If Carly succeeds, Sweets lives. If she fails, they both die.
Car thieves and the chop shop that buys from them combine to create high-octane stories of hot cars, hot crimes, and hot times in Dallas, Texas. When Lyle Mulaney steals his first car in “Run and Gun,” he doesn’t know he’s also stealing a blackmail film hotter than a Dallas summer. Now, the disgraced cop is caught between a progressive firebrand eager to take down the powerful and a cold-blooded fixer who will kill to protect them. Mulaney’s a hell of a driver, but can he outrun the man he has no hope of outgunning?
Car thieves and the chop shop that buys from them combine to create high-octane stories of hot cars, hot crimes, and hot times in Dallas, Texas. It’s more than “A Hunka Hunka Burning Rubber” when master car thief Jimmy Lee Skelton steals a luxury Stutz from a group of Elvis Presley impersonators, it seems like the perfect score: Imagine, a car once driven by the King himself. Except this is not that car, and those aren’t Elvis impersonators. For Skelton, rocking and rolling was never so dangerous.
Car thieves and the chop shop that buys from them combine to create high-octane stories of hot cars, hot crimes, and hot times in Dallas, Texas. In “Barracuda Backfire,” Billy Wright’s first loves were Veronica Valdez and his 1965 Plymouth Barracuda. Forty-five years after he thought he’d lost them both for good, he has a plan to win them back. All he needs to make it work is a whole lot of luck—and maybe a miracle.
Car thieves and the chop shop that buys from them combine to create high-octane stories of hot cars, hot crimes, and hot times in Dallas, Texas. Some vehicles are too expense to steal. By the time you figure that out, it’s too late. In “Devil in the Rearview,” Liza Lee escapes one monster only to find herself running from a worse one, wondering all along whether she will become a monster herself.
Car thieves and the chop shop that buys from them combine to create high-octane stories of hot cars, hot crimes, and hot times in Dallas, Texas. In “Here Comes the Judge,” brothers Brad and Rolly steal The Judge, an ultra-rare vintage GTO, from a funeral home for the biggest payday of their careers. But instead of cruising Easy Street, the discovery of cursed tarot cards and an unwelcome guest in the trunk sends them on a collision course with the afterlife. Can the bumbling brothers escape their fate before becoming ghosts themselves?
Car thieves and the chop shop that buys from them combine to create high-octane stories of hot cars, hot crimes, and hot times in Dallas, Texas. Woody and Tommy make an elite car-thieving duo. Woody provides the brains while his lithe stepson, Tommy, can slip into any vehicle. The pair have been successfully stealing Dallas’s automobiles for years. When they accept the challenge to go after a high-dollar Bentley, the opportunity to settle old scores takes over the driver’s seat. “Slow Ride” is Oliver Twist meets Saw .
Car thieves and the chop shop that buys from them combine to create high-octane stories of hot cars, hot crimes, and hot times in Dallas, Texas. After Cheryl Moore loses her job as a paralegal, she learns to support herself stealing SUVs from soccer moms and selling them to Huey’s Auto Repair. An opportunist more than a technician, Cheryl steps out of her comfort zone in “Coyote Run” when she boosts a Ford Transit van, and she’s not at all prepared to deal with the van’s cargo.
Car thieves and the chop shop that buys from them combine to create high-octane stories of hot cars, hot crimes, and hot times in Dallas, Texas. All Riley wants is a chance to make enough cash for a fresh start with her ex-con husband, Alex. But when they steal the wrong minivan and become accidental kidnappers, she’s forced to shift gears into a life of “Fast Cars and Dirty Diapers.” As if handling a crying baby isn’t hard enough, Riley has to figure out how to deal with a dishonest husband, escape a dangerous loan shark, and keep her darkest secrets from coming to light.
Car thieves and the chop shop that buys from them combine to create high-octane stories of hot cars, hot crimes, and hot times in Dallas, Texas. Benny Lenard figured keeping a few things from the glove box of the Mini Cooper he stole for Huey’s shop was no big deal. When one item in particular turns out to be extremely lucrative, his unexpected good fortune swiftly turns into ferocious pursuit from all sides. Benny has to find a way to turn his lucky find into cash and avoid the wrath of those who want what he found. For Benny, this heist may be his last... one way or another.