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Gritty police procedural set in upscale, glitzy Santa Monica.
Santa Monica, California, is home to the homeless, a city of haves and have nots, ripe for dirty politicians, psychopathic homeowners, car thieves, and celebrity troublemakers.
A vicious carjacking maims a firefighter that Homicide Detective Dave Mason of the Santa Monica Police Department used to tomcat around with.
Carjackers up the stakes when a hit-and-run linked to them leads Mason to an elite private high school where a boiling controversy is already erupting over financial shenanigans. A hit-and-run fatality of the school’s administrator leads Mason to take a very clos | |  | | No Dice
Billions of dollars in potential casino profits can turn the nicest people ugly. The city councilwoman with the deciding vote is murdered, presenting Santa Monica Police Detective Dave Mason with a real whodunit.
A gaming goliath is steamrolling local opposition to build a high-rise casino complex on the shoreline of upscale Santa Monica. The crucial city councilwoman with the deciding vote is murdered. Confronting Santa Monica Police Detective Dave Mason with a real whodunit. The dance between politics, money, and big ideas that change the landscape draw Mason in, deflecting his attention from his daughter's bullying and his impending divorce. He struggles against his attraction toward the witness, Ginger McNair, the community organizer leading the opposition forces. Ginger must prove her inn | |  | | On Behalf of the Family
If You Think This Only Happens in Saudi Arabia, You’re Wrong. What is this? Is it a hate crime? Domestic abuse, honor killing, or what?
This book has created a buzz because it’s an untouchable topic in the US
A car arson fire claims the life of a beautiful young girl, a rich Muslim student at Santa Monica College. Detective Dave Mason of the Santa Monica Police Department must break through the family’s silent conspiracy surrounding her vicious murder. He is handicapped by fact that the eleven members of her family who share the mansion in the high-end real estate section of Santa Monica do not speak English. Or so they say.
The city is in turmoil, accusing the department of racism and worse. Mason makes a promise to a girl he never met that he will bring her justice; yet, he is drawn away | |  | | Payback
The grisly dismemberment of the popular mayor during Oktoberfest in a California mountain village sets off a ripple of fear. Everybody hated him;nobody will talk to Sheriff's Detective Dex Stafford.
A forest fire burning in the mountains surrounding a remote California village interrupts the Oktoberfest celebration, followed by the discovery of the mayor who has been beheaded. Sheriff’s Detective Dex Stafford concludes everybody hated the mayor for different and very good reasons, but nobody will talk. His nerves fraying, Stafford finds himself involved with his partner’s hysterical daughter, at a time when he fears his partner is on the take. His mother moves in with him, bringing a Jack Russell who hates him, and stories about his father he doesn’t want to hear.
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How does the body of a lowlife found in the Santa Monica beach condo of a playboy movie exec link up with Chechens that Detective Dave Mason of the SMPD keeps hearing about?
Investigation leads him into the dark world of embezzlement, to an explosion that almost kills him, and a bungled FBI take down.
Mason must redeem himself and the department, and keep the woman he loves, but the odds are against him and he knows it.
High-tech burglary and murder are bad for business in the upscale, tourist-destination beach city of Santa Monica with its leftist politics, rich homeowners, and huge homeless population. Bad for Detective Dave Mason of the Santa Monica Police Department. br />
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A deadbeat burglar has been found in the upscale Santa Monica beach condo of a playboy studio exec. The dead body must link up with a string of high-tech burglaries, and the Chechens Mason keeps meeting must link up with each other somehow, but how? br />
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The investigation leads him down mean streets into | |  | | The Most Dangerous Species
Told with humor and a sharp observation of village life, the reader follows an unlikely pair of investigators in a prickly alliance through a case with a disturbing psychological twist.
This book won 1st Place Fiction in the Book category voted on by the Public Safety Writers Assocation.
A gruesome murder in a cat rescue sanctuary splinters animal lovers and animal haters in a serene California mountain village. Village patrol officer, and animal activist, Holly Seabright, intrudes herself in the investigation to clear the name of the founder, a heroine among the animal rescue community.
Hot shot homicide investigator, Dex Stafford, battles a cat allergy and a dislike for a place without a Starbucks—or even streetlights. Nothing goes his way. He and his partner disagree over the course of the investigation.
A city boy in the countryside, Stafford pursues the |
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Deadly Decision
by Gerald Darnell
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 All Carson Reno Mystery Series Books are standalone novels. It is not necessary to read them in any particular order.
When a Tennessee Highway Patrolman is mysteriously murdered, the clues are nonexistent. Police have the name of a possible suspect, |
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Soldier's Gap
by David Schwinghammer
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 When high school principal Jerry Egge is brutally murdered, Deputy sheriff Dave Jenkins begins an eerie investigation. Just about everyone in Soldier, Minnesota, is a suspect.
"Murder isn't usually this funny."
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