"With the clarity of Robert B. Parker and the complexity of Michael Connolly, [this thriller] disturbs and charms at the same time." — BooklistOnce a cancer patient, former Orlando detective Mike Garrity is a survivor—for now, at least. Death has a way of following him around, like a black cloud over his head. If it's not his own mortality he's thinking about, it's someone else's. Like his teenage daughter's friend who just died of a suspected suicide. Or ...

The case of a missing Hawaiian girl reveals the dark side of paradise for a former cop in this tropical noir crime thriller from the author of Ruby Tuesday.Retired LAPD detective Mike Travis has put thousands of miles between himself and his former life by sailing to Kona, Hawaii, where he runs a private yacht charter business and co-owns a coffee farm. But once a cop, always a cop—especially when someone he cares about needs his help.When a local ...

Former LAPD detective Mike Travis returns in a novel of sex, drugs, rock and roll—and murder—from the award-winning author of Roadhouse Blues.The mystery has fascinated the music industry since 1977—the year when some tapes went missing from the Stone Blossoms' final recording session for one of the most anticipated rock albums of all time. The band's charismatic leader committed suicide on the same day.Retired cop Mike Travis learns about the puzz...

"Enjoyable entertainment . . . a mystery/suspense novel with links to classic rock history and mythology" featuring recovering detective Mike Travis ( Foreword).After twenty years at the LAPD Homicide Bureau, Mike Travis is finally retiring and starting over on Santa Catalina Island. In the small town of Avalon, he lives and works on his yacht, sailing and chartering scuba diving trips. There, among tourists and quirky locals, he tries to banish the residu...

There's no rest for the weary in this hardboiled mystery that takes PI Mike Shayne from the beaches of Miami to the halls of the Senate.Mike Shayne is running on no sleep when he's convinced by the daughter of a US senator to help her father, who's fallen into the clutches of a much younger woman. It's a tale as old as time, only this version ends in blackmail. Notorious lobbyist Sam Toby is using the femme fatale to get a compromising photo of the politician in ti...

After being ambushed, Recker goes missing for several days and is presumed dead. Once he returns, he seeks retribution on the men responsible and turns to an unlikely source to help him get his revenge. As he embarks on his plot for revenge, he must not only carefully navigate around Mia's growing feelings for him, but also his own feelings for her.While still not forgetting his main goal of helping the innocent, Recker also further cements his relationship with Tyrell by helping h...

After being ambushed, Recker goes missing for several days and is presumed dead. Once he returns, he seeks retribution on the men responsible and turns to an unlikely source to help him get his revenge. As he embarks on his plot for retribution, he must not only carefully navigate around Mia's growing feelings for him, but also his own feelings for her. While still not forgetting his main goal of helping the innocent, Recker also further cements his relationship with Tyrell by helping him ...

Miami has become a political powder keg about to explode, and it's up to PI Mike Shayne to discover who put a target on a politician's head.Mike Shayne doesn't pretend to know a lot about Latin American politics, but he does know that the appearance of an attorney general with ties to a corrupt military regime won't go unnoticed in Miami. Parties from all sides of the political spectrum are planning protests, counter-protests and—quite possibly—an assassination att...

A beleaguered bookie, a blackmailed quarterback, and a cheating mob wife are all in day's work for Miami PI Mike Shayne.When Harry Bass, the big man in bookmaking and casino gambling takes a hit, everyone in Miami takes notice. And this one is big. In one afternoon, a longshot mare at the track wins, a football game is fixed, and Bass is the victim of a violent stickup, being robbed of $200,000. Word has it that, in going more legit, Bass has gotten slow and is pri...

Mike & Millie's summer road trip was supposed to be harmless fun—a vintage '71 Barracuda, miles of hot Southern highway, the kind of freedom only the young and wildly in love believe will last forever.But when Mike and Millie decide to take that freedom a little too literally, one barefoot, bare-everything sprint across a deserted back road brings flashing lights in their rearview and one dangerously handsome state trooper to their window.The officer should write them up an...

Murder and mayhem are all in a day's work for PI Mike Shayne, but when terrorists reach the shores of Miami, he'll have to up his game.No one knows that Murray Gold is back in Miami and the aging criminal mastermind wants it to stay that way. After being imprisoned in Israel, he disappeared during a raid by Palestinian commandos. Being the most wanted man in Florida—if not the world—has its drawbacks. One being that Gold's former allies have abandoned him, and he n...

There's a lot of money—and the fate of football—riding on PI Mike Shayne's broad shoulders in this thrilling crime caper in the long-running series.Mike Shayne is a big man, but not as massive as the Dolphins' offensive tackle who's in his sights. The team's owner has hired Shayne to see if Joe "Truck" Truszowski took money to miss two blocks during last week's game, leading to hits that put their star quarterback in a coma. It's a gambling scandal that could rock ...