Gruber, Michael

Cuban American homicide detective Jimmy Paz teams up with rookie cop Tito Morales, and psychologist Lorna Wise, in an effort to figure out whether Emmylou Dideroff--a woman who regularly communes with saints and the devil--is responsible for the death of a wealthy Arab oil trader who took a dive from the tenth floor of a Miami hotel after being bashed in the head with a piston rod.

A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart's desire.

Intellectual property lawyer Jake Mishkin and bookstore employee Albert Crosetti discover a Jacobean document that suggests the existence of an unknown Shakespeare play, and realize their lives are in danger when the Shakespearean scholar they are working with is murdered.

A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart's desire.