An immense asteroid struck the Earth one fine spring day without the amount of advance warning the experts had planned for and expected. If it had, countless millions of lives could have been saved. Or maybe not. Was the asteroid a planet killer? On this the experts disagreed. The only clear thing was that the Earth faced a cataclysm of a degree unknown since the dinosaurs shared a similar fate. But those behemoths and strange winged creatures were entirely unprepared to deal with the afte...

Body of Work, the 11th entry in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series by author David M Benson, opens with the gruesome murder of a wealthy art collector at his waterfront mansion in Miami Beach. Carina, recently out of a brief retirement, had joined the Florida Department of Law Enforcement--the state's FBI--and now headed up the region's Investigations and Forensic Science unit. The nature of the killing prompted Miami Beach PD to request that she join the investigation. Her first ...

Detective Carina Quintana's latest challenge takes on an unwelcome personal flavor in the harrowing Dead On a Rival. When the apparent accidental fall of a handsome Brazilian tycoon from a luxury cruise ship in the Caribbean interrupts Carina's holiday with the edgy Alice, Carina is not the only one to wonder if murder might not be a more accurate description for what happened in this particular case of man overboard. Enlisted to investigate by the ship's captain and security officer, it i...

Death on the Vine, the 10th book in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series, opens as five college-age men from well-to-do suburban Atlanta families attend a demonstration in Fort Lauderdale in June 2020. But as night falls, the formerly peaceful push for equal rights morphs into a riot and, during the melee, one of the young men produces a gun and shoots a plain clothed police officer, who dies in the street. Carina Quintana, Chief of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, witnesses t...

The latest Carina Quintana Mystery, from Kirkus Award winning author David Benson, has Carina facing her first homicide as Assistant Chief of the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida PD.When the body of a young woman washes up on the beach in front of a local luxury hotel, a little digging sets Carina on the trail of Rayce de Marco, an infant terrible of the high fashion world with mob ties and a penchant for private jets and the super-heated late night club scene of South Beach.The dea...

Money Side Up is the seventh in the award-winning Carina Quintana Mysteries series. Money Side Up opens as Carina and a cadre of Florida law enforcement officers find themselves in a deadly firefight with an outlaw biker gang trying to complete a major drug deal. In the aftermath, Carina is faced with the striking but even more deadly Regina Roy, twin sister of the gang's local leader, who was killed in the melee. Regina is now out of the shadow of her brother and free of his tyrannous con...

Miami Beach police chief Carina Quintana is hot on the trail of a twisted killer who mails home pieces of his young female victims before delivering the coupe de grace. Can this heartless predator really be the world-famous crime novelist with a home in Paris and a Miami mansion whose books eerily predict the real-life mayhem to come, as Carina suspects? And can Carina stay focused on her quarry while fretting about the possible consequences of her Cayman stash of cash and romancing the be...

ROOMER HAS IT is the hotly anticipated sequel to the first Carina Quintana mystery, LATE BOOMER, a Kirkus Star & Top 100 of 2012 award winner!Home again in Miami Beach and now the Magic City's youngest police chief, Carina is faced with finding a killer whose spree began as revenge for the death of his wife but but who has become an avenging angel, and a brutal one at that. According to Pete Simpson, Carina's former NYPD partner and now a private investigator with New York's most pr...

The ninth installment in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series, Three Strikes and You're Dead pits the tough and beautiful Fort Lauderdale police chief against the worst sort of serial killer imaginable. A profiler's nightmare, this cleverly disguised, merciless merchant of death travels the country picking his victims at random and inflicting mortal damage of the most heinous sort. And to Carina's dismay, the killer changes up his MO as often as most people change their lunch orders...

Havana Homicide is the latest in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series by Kirkus Award winning author David M Benson. Something as prosaic as a police chiefs convention brings Carina to Havana but she's got way stronger Cuban connections than that. Her grandparents emigrated from Cuba just before Castro's revolution, bringing Carina's Cuban-born father to the the United States. And her family history, particularly that of her tough guy grandfather, who ran a casino in Havana for the ...

KIRKUS REVIEW--Benson's tightly plotted crime thriller is sure to please fans of police procedurals--a Kirkus Star novel.Wealthy middle-aged Manhattanites—the baby boomers of the title—have been gruesomely murdered, and Det.Carina Quintana senses a connection. But how can she prove it? The killer, if he exists, varies his methods and targetsand leaves no tangible evidence. Age and wealth are all that the victims have in common. Recently transferred fromMiami aft...

Carina Quintana's latest case takes her back to New York City, where someone is leaving bodies, gruesomely stabbed in the heart, on church altars. Now wealthy and celebrated through her true crime books and settled in with the alluring Alice, the former chief of Miami Beach PD is in need of new challenges. She accepts a position with the uber-private investigations firm to which her ex-NYPD partner, Pete Simpson, escaped, and is immediately thrust into what may turn out to be the biggest--...