Capone's North Road is a gritty historical noir along Lake Superior's cold spine. Joe Danner runs the northern mouth of a bootleg pipeline-Marquette's docks, Little Lake reeds, Portage, WI canal swaps, and rail spurs toward Cicero's Hawthorne smoke rooms. After the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, rival crews, agents, and rumor tighten the vise. Joe's jobs turn bloodier; the ice turns thinner; one betrayal could buy his family's future-or bury them beneath it. From daylight runs to Île Parisienne to smoky back rooms in Chicago, the novel tracks work, weather, and risk, where a whisper can knife a man. When the Outfit comes north to settle accounts, Joe must choose a road: keep the booze flowing and live with the bodies that follow, or break the chain, burn his bridges at Portage, WI, and gamble that the lake, the woods, and a few loyal neighbors can keep him breathing.

Scott Hamele is a Kansas-born author whose work spans historical fiction, modern thrillers, and sci-fi comedy with adult humor. A Salina native living in the Kansas City area since 1991, he writes stories rooted in family history and American folklore. His books include Dust and Honor-The Story of Peter Cornelius; The Petticoat Butcher-The Pinkertons' Hunt for Jimmy Ward; Capone's North Road; Dustwings-Black Ops; and Area 51-1/2: Cosmic Misfits. His newest novel, Hanna's Room-Secrets Sealed Since 1942: A Novel of Nazi-Occupied Paris, is a deep dive into the atrocities the Nazis inflicted on Paris's Jewish community and the secrets that endured for decades. Across genres-from 19th-century epics to present-day thrillers and comedic sci-fi-Hamele's range is wide and distinctive.