The first in the Joe LaLuna crimes series.  The Long Island Homicide detective deals with a case in which his old high school sweetheart is a main suspect.

Newsday called the book, "Suspenseful, often hilarious," and Publishers Weekly said, "This wacky tale finger-pops its way to a perfect ending."

A classic.

Joe LaLuna returns from the dead to once again battle for the life and the love of Audie McKenna.

This battle with a corrupt and brilliant lawyer nearly ends his career and life once again.

The novel's ending is like no other in the history of crime fiction.

Two blue-collar guys from Queens, desperate for money to pay for one's wedding, decide to dip a foot into the world of crime by boosting a high-staked poker game out on Long Island.

What could possible go wrong? 

(The author's personal favorite crime novel.)

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What if Truman Capote got it all wrong in his true crime classic "In Cold Blood."

A Queens Investigative Reporter is challeneged to find out, but has little idea of what he has been sucked into, or what it is about to do to his career, his life, and the woman he loves.

Hypnotic, poetic, tough.

A 1950s noir about a shell-shocked ex-G.I. trying to solve a crime that is more personal than he could ever imagine.

FOG 50's ending will leave the reader gasping. 

DeFilippi's only novel set in Vermont, the state he has lived in for forty years.

A rock-hard Vermont farmer will not leave his land, no matter what the law or his kid brother, the local police chief, demands.

An epic battle between brother and brother, law and tradition, sanity and pride.

For a change of pace, take a breather and enjoy this series of short, humorous pieces.

A vacuum cleaner possessed by the devil, a man standing ankle deep in Sloppy Joe mix, Richard Nixon in Alaska, a toaster frozen beneath the winter snow and then resurrected.

...and those are the more normal of the topics.

One-liners to cherish...or not.

The audio-book version is available at Payloadz.com, so that you can feel the author is right there in your living room--maybe not such a great idea.

Two innocents drive up to Schenectady, New York, in order to break into a museum and attack a ceramic buffalo with baseball bats.

Some readers think that this is the single funniest book ever written. 

Others just scratch their heads and put the book down wondering.

This story of the most horrific and under-reported battle of Wolrd War II is Jim's first non-fiction book, written under his pseudonym, Henry Grif.

It would be safe to say that you have never read another history book like it.