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Eagle Rock, August 2024
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The Overnights, June 2023
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The Shred Diet Cookbook, March 2015
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Super Shred Diet: The Big Results Diet, January 2015
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Super Shred, January 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Shred, January 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Truth About Men, April 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Eat, April 2011
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Happy, May 2010
Hardcover
The 4 Day Diet, January 2009
Hardcover
Extreme Fat Smash Diet, April 2007
Paperback (reprint)
The Fat Smash Diet, January 2006
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BEYOND MIDNIGHT
By: Ian K. Smith

A Gripping Chicago Mystery of Political Corruption, Deception, and Murder—Get Lost in the Pages of this Captivating Summer Read

Ashe Cayne #5
HarperCollins
September 2025
On Sale: August 26, 2025
Featuring: Juaquin Escobar; Ashe Cayne
320 pages
ISBN: 0063459221
EAN: 9780063459229
Kindle: B0DX7D395T
Trade Paperback / e-Book
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Mystery Private Eye | Multicultural African-American

In the fifth installment of the Ashe Cayne series the smooth Chicago private eye stumbles into the city's internecine (and deadly) world of politics.

The death of immigrant Juaquin Escobar has been ruled an accidental drowning in Lake Michigan. The only problem is he never drinks and never swims. When the CPD informs his nephew Ivan Ramirez and closes the case he refuses to believe it’s true.

Convinced of foul play Ivan is referred to Ashe Cayne by his friend and socialite Penny Packer. After agreeing to take the case on pro bono he quickly discovers that things are not always what they seem. As Ashe investigates, he learns that Juaquin was last seen getting into a white van belonging to a heating and cooling company before he disappeared.

Retracing Juaquin’s steps leads Ashe straight into a web of secrets and lies that anyone would do anything to escape—even murder.