Vito Zuppardo Books in Order

Peter Franzella’s success bringing wealthy gamblers to Las Vegas attracts a Nevada Gaming Control investigation into alleged criminal connections. With his business threatened, his protégée Claudia challenges the casino industry despite her misgivings about his deceptive past.

Suspicious deaths at a New Orleans care facility pull retired homicide detective Zack Nelson back into investigation. Joining former partner Mario DeLuca, he probes rehearsed explanations and concealed motives before another resident falls victim behind the institution's welcoming appearance.

Zuppardo recounts a life moving high-stakes gamblers through casinos around the world, where enormous bets blur business and personal loyalty. Regulatory scrutiny and a player's death turn access to money and influential clients into a source of serious danger.

Drawing on years arranging casino junkets, Zuppardo describes the demands and unexpected behavior of wealthy gamblers traveling to exclusive gaming events. Stories about private flights, extravagant parties, and difficult clients reveal the complications behind an apparently glamorous service business.

Detective Mario DeLuca faces retaliation from an imprisoned criminal whose influence still reaches New Orleans's streets. Threats against his fiancee and another suspicious death bring old allies together, testing how far they will move beyond procedure to protect those at risk.

Lucy leaves Mississippi hoping to reinvent herself in New Orleans through wit and small-time hustles. Crossing a drug kingpin and agreeing to testify against a murderer threaten that escape, forcing her to navigate competing pressures from police allies and vengeful criminals.

A forensic expert survives a calculated attempt to kill her, drawing Mario DeLuca and Howard Blitz into an old robbery's unresolved aftermath. Their search across New Orleans reveals someone determined to remove witnesses and preserve secrets supposedly buried years earlier.

Before his first major series investigation, New Orleans detective Mario DeLuca confronts doubts about the uniform he once dreamed of wearing. A summer shaped by criminal influence and compromised loyalties forces him to question where justice ends and corruption begins.

A convention trip to Las Vegas leads Mario DeLuca to investigate a possible sighting of a girl abducted six years earlier. Following the mother's suspicions uncovers trafficking connections and a rescue whose dangers extend back to New Orleans.

Troubling nightmares lead Lucy toward revenge while her connections with a drug dealer, detectives, and a recurring lover complicate life in New Orleans. Building a refuge for mistreated women draws her into morally uncertain arrangements involving money, influence, and intimidation.

A cartel demands millions from Mario DeLuca while a separate criminal operation empties the accounts of people close to him. Working with Howard Blitz, he faces threats that cross professional boundaries and endanger innocent people caught between their competing enemies.

Lucy uses her influence and unconventional methods to support abused women in the French Quarter. When a former lover returns seeking help, competing desires unsettle her control, forcing her to confront the darker impulses behind actions she considers beneficial.

A restaurant's triple homicide draws Mario DeLuca and Howard Blitz into an investigation with troubling links to the past. Familiar places and resurfacing memories complicate Mario's pursuit, making the search for justice inseparable from questions about his own history.

A fellow officer's shooting leaves Mario DeLuca grieving and increasingly uncertain about the boundaries of lawful justice. Casino robberies draw him, Howard, and Julie Wong into a wider investigation where anger and loyalty threaten to determine their choices.

Wealthy and influential Lucy accepts a challenge to run for New Orleans city council, seeing opportunities to expand her interests. Material from her concealed past threatens that ambition and strains her relationship with detective Stella James as new dangers emerge.

A former fiancee's request brings Mario DeLuca into an investigation of a prestigious auction house concealing human trafficking. Multiple agencies and powerful interests complicate the case, while his partner Howard's hidden history raises further questions about trust and methods.

Popular Louisiana school quarterback Eli Fletcher grows up without knowing his father and resists his mother's plans for his future. As secrets beneath their small town's respectable surface emerge, he must confront an increasingly troubling account of his own life.

Mario DeLuca finally arrests a long-pursued criminal, only to see apparent judicial corruption threaten the case. Howard Blitz's involvement uncovers a kidnapping, an assassination contract, and a waiting sniper, drawing both men into a struggle against carefully coordinated betrayal.

New Orleans detective Howard Blitz recognizes military precision in a series of French Quarter murders. The investigation draws on his concealed Special Forces past, exposing connections between organized crime, political cover-ups, and enemies who know the identity he has tried to leave behind.