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When a routine missing persons case goes sideways, Los Angeles private eye Malone must once again descend into the seedy underbelly of the City of Angels in his quest to find two missing Brentwood socialites and to find the answers to some very pressing questions.When two young Kardashian-like sisters, Brentwood debutantes, go missing, their father calls in Malone to find them. The client, the ultra-wealthy owner of Los Angeles'' largest luxury car dealership and a candidate for the Los Angeles city council with a trophy wife half his age, can''t imagine where his daughters have gone. Malone embarks on what he expects to be a routine missing persons gig, a simple bread and butter case for a gumshoe, but things get complicated. After Malone interviews one of the missing girl''s close friends, she inexplicably commits suicide. Next, there''s a mysterious murder. He uncovers hints of blackmail. Once again, Malone must descend into the seedy underbelly of the City of Angeles in his quest to find the missing young women and get the answers to some very pressing questions, including a few about himself.

A Malone Novel. In this latest thriller featuring the intrepid Los Angeles PI, Malone gets reacquainted with some old friends and meets new enemies in a troubling case that threatens to shake the City of Angels to its core.

Where do you go when you first experience concern about your slowing memory? The Thing I Miss Most is My Mind is a good place to start for you, your closest friends and your family. No one knows what goes on in the mind of someone who is first experiencing the beginning of Alzheimer's.

When two private investigators team up to recover some ridiculously expensive stolen jewels, together, they must push their skills - and their lives - to the ultimate limit. And along the way, they discover the true meaning of loyalty and friendship...When a single diamond surfaces fifteen years after an armed robbery crew pulled a daring daylight heist, the biggest jewel theft in LA history, the insurance company that absorbed the costly claim, hires Malone to look for the rest of the missing $68 million worth of the rarest and most valuable gemstones on the planet.Finding the diamonds means Malone must first find Kyle Murray, the sole surviving member of the crew who recently completed his fifteen-year prison stretch for his part in the robbery. But Malone finds it isn''t easy to find a man determined not to be found. Murray''s trail takes Malone through California, then to Toronto, Canada, and finally to New Zealand.While looking for Murray, Malone suddenly finds himself drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse - and he''s already several moves behind - with two other people determined to find Murray and the diamonds before he does. And their first attempt to kill Malone to rid themselves of the competition is only the beginning...Malone and his former protégé, Honolulu P.I. and New Zealand ex-pat T. J. O''Sullivan, team up once again. And they must find Kyle Murray and the diamonds fast - while heading for a showdown that may well be their last.Foregone Conclusion is the fourth novel in the thrilling Malone Private Investigator Series of Crime and Suspense Thrillers. If you like breathtaking action, and laugh-out-loud humor, with a hint of romance, then you''ll love this edge-of-your-seat detective story. Perfect for fans of Robert B. Parker''s Spencer, Raymond Chandler''s Philip Marlowe, and Ace Atkins'' Quinn Colson. You may enjoy reading the Malone series in any order.

New Zealand ex-pat and Honolulu PI T. J. O'Sullivan, follows the trail of a con man to Hong Kong hoping to recover her client's half a million dollars' worth of stolen jewelry. But she never expected the case would catapult her into a deadly clash with an international crime syndicate that erupts in such danger and violence it threatens not only her life but the lives of everyone she loves. Madison Edwards, a wealthy but lonely widow from Los Angeles, thought she'd found her soulmate on an online dating site. She fell so hard for the handsome, seemingly cultured Bernard Clemens, Ph.D. that she jumps at the chance when he invites her to Hawaii for a first face-to-face meeting. But when she awakens the morning after she and Clemens were intimate for the first time, Clemens was missing from her bed along with a quarter-million dollars worth of her jewelry taken from the hotel room safe. A Los Angeles private eye who had done work for Madison's late husband, Ben Malone, refers her to T. J. O'Sullivan for help. While not hopeful of recovering her client's jewelry, O' Sullivan thinks finding and confronting Clemens, a self-proclaimed professor of comparative literature at a local university, will be easy enough...until she starts to learn more about the man. Bernard Clemens isn't even his real name, and he isn't a professor at all. Instead "Bernie Clements" is a career thief, an ex-con who preys on the lovelorn, divorced or widowed middle-aged wealthy women, by catfishing and fleecing them. Madison Edwards is just his latest victim. Clements disappears to Hong Kong, leaving behind not only a string of jilted lovers but a very angry bunch of former criminal associates in a Chinese organized crime syndicate called the Triads, bent on revenge after Bernie conned them too. Between trying to track down Clements in a foreign city, and trying to steer clear of the Chinese gangsters, O'Sullivan's case grows more complicated by the day. As T. J., her friend Jackie, and Tsang Chun-wah, a local Hong Kong private detective that T. J. hires to help with the case, search for Clements and try to recover the jewelry, things really start to spiral out of control when Jackie Fitzgerald is abducted by the gangsters. Honolulu Blues is the second novel in a female private investigator crime and suspense thriller series that features breathtaking action, chilling suspense, laugh-out-loud humor, and a hint of romance.

MURDER, ACTUALLY is a collection of true adventures. A private detective takes you into her world of stories, stakeouts, courtrooms, and characters.

Here is the novel that reveals tough-as-nails Honolulu private investigator T.J. O'Sullivan's romantic, sexier side-the third book in an action-packed detective mystery series.On the trail of a stolen ancient Chinese cultural relic called Tiger Ying, T.J. finds herself entangled not only in a murder, but in a steamy love triangle, dating two good-looking sexy men at the same time. T.J. isn't always right, but she is never indecisive. She isn't looking to choose. She wants to keep them both. But can she juggle two lovers and still find the time to solve the case of The Chinese Tiger Ying?New Zealand expat and Honolulu private detective T.J. O'Sullivan is good at finding things-whether it's missing persons, stolen jewels, or the evidence that outs a cheating spouse. When a Honolulu antiques and cultural artifacts dealer hires T.J. to find a stolen three-thousand year old Chinese cultural relic called Tiger Ying, she gets busy looking. But that's not all T.J. is looking to find.Languishing in unhappiness and despair fueled by her unrequited love for former mentor and colleague Ben Malone, T.J. is desperate to find a way to lift her sagging spirits and someone to fill the gaping romantic void in her life. Enter Nick, a gorgeous guy T.J. runs into while working her case. He seems to tick all the boxes, offering exactly what she thinks she wants and needs-a casual, unstructured relationship with heaps of NSA intimacy. But just when things seem to go so right it gets complicated.T.J. finds herself hooking up with her Honolulu detective ex-boyfriend who is helping with her case. Before she knows it she's dating two hotties at the same time and loving every delicious moment. T.J. isn't trapped in indecision. She has no intention of making a choice. Instead, she is stubbornly determined to hang on to both men. The two of them are so different, but both have qualities that spark her interest and her passions.Can T.J. find time to focus on solving her case while juggling two seriously hot lovers? Worse yet, will the lies and sneaking around catch up to her in the end causing her romantic life to go up in flames, leaving her back where she started, sad and alone?

From the author of the Malone Mystery series comes smart, sassy, Los Angeles private investigator T. J. O'Sullivan. Originally from New Zealand, T. J. has the accent and the attitude to go with it. When Los Angeles private investigator T. J. O'Sullivan travels to Hawaii to track down a client's missing daughter, it seems like a simple missing person case. O'Sullivan is excited at the prospect of mixing a little business with some pleasure on the beaches of sunny Waikiki. But as soon as she arrives in Honolulu, the case starts to turn into anything but routine. In fact, it becomes a regular mare's nest of lies, extortion, and murder. T. J. learns that her client's daughter hasn't actually gone missing. Instead, she has been abducted and is being held for ransom. To make matters worse, while T. J. tries to get a lead on the daughter's whereabouts, she has to fend off the sexual advances of her womanizing client. Then her client is murdered, and his body discovered in her hotel room, putting T. J. in the frame for a murder charge. Now she must solve at least one murder to prove her own innocence, resolve a criminal conspiracy involving her dead client's own family and employees, and save herself from the clutches of some serious bad guys who want her dead.