CRIMINAL CODE
A Michael Donatello Novel
In the shadows of Philadelphia's criminal underworld, where loyalty is currency, and revenge is law, a stolen masterpiece ignites a deadly chess match with no clean moves.
Fresh from a decade behind bars, Michael Donatello returns to find the Marcuccio crime family teetering on collapse. Their financial lifeline—a priceless painting called The Empress of Time—has vanished from the Château Lumière gallery, leaving a dead curator and a family desperate for answers.
The painting isn't just art. It's oxygen for an organization gasping its last breath.
As Michael hunts for the thieves, he uncovers a labyrinth of deception where everyone plays multiple angles. A calculating handler orchestrates perfect crimes from sterile offices. A master thief eliminates loose ends with surgical precision. An art curator with royal blood harbors secrets worth killing for. Even the case detective walks a razor's edge between duty and corruption.
When the body count rises and old alliances fracture, Michael must decide how deep into darkness he'll descend. Because recovering the painting means more than saving the family business—it means choosing which code he truly lives by.
The criminal code, or something resembling honor.
A taut, unflinching thriller of stolen masterpieces, calculated betrayals, and the thin line between justice and vengeance—where even the winner leaves bloodstained fingerprints behind.
MORAL CODE
A Michael Donatello Novel
The killer was an artist. Not the kind who showed in galleries — the kind who worked in silence, on bodies, in basements. His father put a makeup brush in his hand at seven years old and his mother made sure he never forgot the shame of it. Twenty years and two continents later, he'd settled into a life in Philadelphia where he had a home and a name his neighbors trusted. He had two careers now. One paid the mortgage. The other left women posed like porcelain dolls. No one looked twice.
He was out of his mind, of course.
When the killings made headlines and the press started blaming the Marcuccio crime family, it landed on Michael Donatello's desk. Michael was no detective. He was the family's answer to problems that couldn't see a courtroom and couldn't go unanswered. When the head of a Dallas crime family showed up looking for whoever murdered her daughter, Michael's problem and her obsession became the same thing.
Now Michael had to do something no cop in the city had been able to — hunt a killer using the only tools available to a man on the wrong side of the law. No warrants. No badges. No code except the one he was raised on.
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