When small town detective, Tony Petrocelli, and his daughter find a decapitated woman's body floating in the lake at the town's park he knows it's going to be a long hard case. Who wanted her dead, and why? With only two tattoos to identify the victim, and no report of a missing person, it takes months to identify Victoria Ruiz-Jones. As they investigate Victoria's life and co-workers someone begins to watch the detective and his daughter. With the discovery of a cache of personal items in an attic Tony and his partner locate Victoria's daughter going to a boarding school operated by Catholic...

The rundown apartment in a tough part of Los Angles wouldn't have been Elwin Hunter's first choice of a place to live, but God sent him there anyway. He reasoned it was no different from the command God gave Jonah. Go where the Lord sends you. It didn't matter that some of the occupants were drug dealers, some given to fits of selfish rage, or sold their body for food and drugs. Most of those Elwin met in that small apartment building never faced the decision the Good Samaritan made, never thought of others, only themselves. Could Freddie have a change of heart and cross the road to help...

CARNAGE - a Tony Petrocelli Mystery Twelve days before Christmas small town detective Tony Petrocelli is called to process a murder suicide. When he and his partner, Michelle Baxter, enter the crime scene they discover some of the evidence points instead to a multiple murder. Who would want to kill one of these family members? Who would want to slay the others as collateral damage? Is it the business partner who needs money from a life insurance policy? A quick source of cash to save the dying business? Is it a mob hit straight from the annals of the Godfather? An act of retribution for a...

Abducted in the middle of the night, ten-year-old Ashley Gibson needs a saviour. Small town detective, Tony Petrocelli, must find her before it's too late. To achieve his goal he must break solemn promises, violate his own code of ethics, and bend the law. Despite a troubled marriage, an uncooperative police chief, and a talented but flawed partner he must work though false leads and a media frenzy in a race against time to rescue Ashley. Detective Petrocelli has one important ally - the victim. Ashley uses her wits and experience with her controlling, and sometimes cruel, father to...

Someone tried to incinerate Nick Salis in his new Lamborghini Aventador. No one has more to gain from Nick's demise than aging trophy wife number two, Dani Salis. If she rids herself of the philandering Nick, she can live a life of ease. Dani not only has the means and opportunity, she has motives-millions of them. Small town Detective, Tony Petrocelli and his partner, Sargent Michelle Baxter find conjecture and innuendo instead of evidence against their prime suspect. Certainly nothing that will support a warrant for Dani's arrest. As the detective duo slog through more speculation and...