Chicago, un an après les émeutes de 68. Les États-Unis sont le théâtre d’événements retentissants: agitation des Black Panthers, festival de Woodstock, crimes de Charles Manson, tensions avec l’URSS et la Chine, premiers pas de l’homme sur la Lune, guerre du Vietnam... C’est dans ce climat tumultueux que l’inspecteur des Homicides Mike Dooley est un jour appelé sur une scène de crime, où gît le corps nu et affreusement torturé d’une ancienne Playboy Bunny girl. Persuadé que l’affaire est p...

Originally published in 1993, the third volume in the Cooper MacLeish series takes Cooper deep into the murky waters of Chicago politics as he agrees to accompany his reporter friend Melvin Moreland to a midnight meeting with a source. When the source turns up dead, Moreland knows he's onto something big. What Cooper knows is that his friend is in over his head and is going to need somebody to watch his back. And Cooper knows he's elected.

This is a sequel to Homicide 69 and Dooley's Back, Reaves's two previous novels about the Dooleys, a Chicago police family. In 2003, Kevin Dooley is the head of the Chicago Police Department's cold case squad. Tasked with re-investigating a 17-year old cop killing after the man originally convicted is exonerated and released, Dooley needs a good investigator with South Side experience on his team. Detective Linda Washington, who knows the territory, needs a new partner. T...

Originally published in 1992, this second entry in the Cooper MacLeish series finds Cooper living with his girlfriend Diana, content with his lot in life. But Diana has a past, and it comes back to bite her when Tommy Thorne, an ex-boyfriend, shows up wanting Diana's help in running a blackmail scheme on the publisher of a sleazy men's magazine. The porn tycoon is hiding something, and he's got some nasty employees to help him keep the lid on. All Cooper wants is to keep Diana out of it, b...

It's the summer of 1969, and Chicago police detective Mike Dooley has his hands full. An ex-Playboy bunny has been brutally murdered, and once Dooley finds out she was a mobster's girlfriend, he figures this is no mere sex killing. A mope coughs up a confession, but Dooley doesn't like the way the case is being stitched up. He's already got enough to worry about with a son in Vietnam and the usual spate of hot-weather killings, but he'll keep digging until he knows the truth, and not just ...

In the fifth book of the Cooper MacLeish series, Cooper is making his living chauffeuring wealthy clients around Chicago while his wife Diana is pursuing her literary passion in graduate school. Diana has a new best friend in classmate Isabel Albala, the wife of a high-powered lawyer. A stalker is making Isabel's life miserable, and when Cooper confronts him, bad things happen. The stalker may not be what he seems, and once again Cooper is in the crosshairs.

Originally published in 1995, the fourth title in the Cooper MacLeish series finds Coop working as chauffeur and factotum for Regis Swanson, a wealthy Chicago real estate developer. When Swanson's wayward son is murdered in what the cops and the DEA insist is a drug deal gone bad, Cooper smells a rat: he knows the kid wasn't into that. Figuring out what really happened will pit Cooper against federal law enforcement hard-liners and some hired guns out to recover a stray suitcase full of ca...

First published in 1991, Sam Reaves's debut novel features Chicago taxi driver Cooper MacLeish, a Vietnam veteran with a philosophical bent and a stubborn reluctance to let bad guys get away with things. When he reads of the apparent suicide of Vivian Horstmann, whom he once loved, Cooper finds himself drawn into the drama of an unhappy family as he tracks down Vivian's runaway son, who insists that her death was no suicide. Drama escalates to crisis as it becomes clear that somebody wants...

Dooley's back in town after eight years in Mexico, and already he's making waves, helping a would-be rapist take a five-story shortcut, saving the criminal justice system a lot of trouble. Dooley used to be a cop, and he would still be one if the system hadn't failed him when it counted most; after taking the law into his own hands, Dooley had to take off. Now he wants to come home, but things have changed- people die, marriages fail, and friends get into trouble. Dooley's old partner Roy ...

The silence of a prairie night hides many secrets.Needing to get out of Manhattan after a personal tragedy, Abby Markstein accepts a teaching job in the heart of flyover country. One night while jogging through a deserted hollow, she comes upon a car consumed in flames. The only thing more horrifying than the dead man at the wheel is the live one smiling at her in the livid glow of the fire.Welcome to Lewisburg, Indiana.The lone witness to the grues...

When Rachel Lindstrom fled from her rural hometown in western Illinois to join the State Department and see the world, she never expected to return with her life in tatters. But after the horrors of war and a painful divorce, the only place where she can rebuild is the town she once escaped.At home, however, there is little comfort. Her brother, still reeling from his wife’s suicide, struggles to run the family farm and handle a hell-raising son. Rachel’s arrival also draws a pair ...

Former Chicago police officer and Outfit associate Fred Pascente is the man who links Tony Spilotro, one of Chicago's most notorious mob figures, to William Hanhardt, chief of detectives in the Chicago Police Department. Pascente and Spilotro grew up together on Chicago's Near West Side, and as young toughs they were rousted and shaken down by Hanhardt.While Spilotro became the youngest made man in Chicago Outfit history, Pascente joined the police department. Soon taken under Hanh...