Friday

Former pro-wrestler Ivan Radocaj, known as ‘The Croatian Giant’, is ambushed and brutally murdered in the tiny Manitoba hamlet of Inwood. It looks like a robbery gone wrong. But when small town tongues start to wag, the police get interested and initiate a massive sting operation. What they hear over a wire tap brings to light a monstrous plot that seems alien to a tranquil community.

A 4th of July house party erupts in violence. A young man tries to flee the scene, but is shot dead behind the wheel of his car. To crack the case, Lt. Joe Kenda must sort through a mountain of suspects, until a peculiar clue puts him hot on the heels of a self-styled gangster with revenge on his mind.

It should have been Shangri-La, but when bad blood developed, piracy took over and the only law was the law of the jungle.

Near Montreal, a husband comes home from work and finds his wife bound, gagged and shot in the head. There is no evidence of sexual assault or theft and police are left without a lead to go on. Some years later, police are called out to a crime scene very similar to the scene four years earlier, but this time they find that the killer has stolen the victimÕs bankcard. They trace the card to a convenience store and by ingeniously matching the security camera to the bank records detectives acquire an image of their prime suspect. Police quickly locate and arrest the man who promptly admits to both murders as well as the murder of a woman gone missing 7 years earlier.

Like in one of his old Hollywood westerns, a former actor is gunned down in Yuma, Arizona and police chase leads across the Southwest until they finally get their man.