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PI Matt Murdock and his partner Helen agree to protect a Sedona billionaire in this series that “leave[s] readers eager for the next Murdock adventure” (Publishers Weekly). The moneyed investors of Sedona, Arizona, are dropping like flies—or more accurately, like lead weights. They're falling down staircases and off mountainsides, decks, and hiking trails. And their eerily similar deaths aren't all these men have in common. They each have wealth, a weakness for beautiful young women, and a financial interest in Sedona Landing, a historic hotel in Oak Creek Village. They also shared a long history with Sedona Landing's chief investor, billionaire Axel Ackerman. Fearing that he too will plunge to his death, Ackerman hires Matt Murdock and Helene Steinbeck to investigate. During his climb to the top of the heap, Ackerman crushed scores of rivals and broke many hearts. So, who among this crowded field of enemies would orchestrate such a byzantine scheme of revenge? To keep their client safe, Matt and Helene will have to be on their best game. But their last case in Taos took a heavy toll on Helene, causing a rift that could all-too-easily trip them up...

California PI Matt Murdock—“as hardboiled as a 10-minute egg”—is on the trail of a deadly cult in the mountains of New Mexico (The Plain Dealer). Weary but wise PI Matt Murdock meets his match in Helene Steinbeck—a fierce and beautiful writer who happens to be a cop's daughter. Helene is hiking in the hills of Taos when she happens upon the corpse of a young woman downed by an arrow. Murdock appears on the horizon just in time to prevent a team of archers from using Helene as target practice. Murdock has been scouring Angel Mountain on a missing persons case. Thrown together with Helen, their quest leads to a local cult whose charismatic leader believes the “weak” are fair game. But this unholy brotherhood is just the poisonous tip of the arrow. The hunters have forged deadly alliances with the rich and powerful of Taos. Will Helene and Murdock be able to out-think—and out-run—their many adversaries? Murdock Tackles Taos is the much-anticipated sixth episode in the Matt Murdock Mystery Series.

California detective Matt Murdock has the biggest drug kingpin in Seattle on his tail in this “hard-nosed P.I. fare with romance singeing the edges” (Kirkus Reviews). Rollie Nielsen, a smart college kid with a brain for chemistry, has just been killed, and his dad wants to know why. Enter Matt Murdock, a tough-and-tender private investigator who's willing to get his hands dirty in search of the truth. It turns out Rollie had a weakness for classy women and easy money, and the combination that led him to start a drug lab. No one knows exactly where he was working or what he was cooking—presumably meth, otherwise known as “ice.” Rollie pissed off a lot of bad guys on both sides of the law, who are now turning their attention to Murdock. Leaving behind a few bodies—some of them friends—Murdock departs smoggy Newport Beach, California, for cloudy Seattle, Washington, where he hopes to unearth Rollie's lab. With the help of wannabe detective Louie Chen and a sexy female acquaintance of Rollie's, Murdock just might succeed. That is, if he can keep his hide in one piece. A Matt Murdock Murder Mystery. “Good reading.” —Kirkus Reviews

California PI Matt Murdock goes up against a crime ring specializing in bondage and blackmail in this “fast, accomplished, and slick” series (Kirkus Reviews). As a partial owner of a sailboat he could never otherwise afford, Newport Beach PI Matt Murdock is in over his head. Now that co-owner Eddie Hennessy is dead, the software mogul's widow wants the boat gone, and Murdock is in no position to buy her share. So, he agrees to do her a favor instead. She needs someone to find Eddie's missing coin collection. But as Murdock quickly discovers, rare coins aren't the only currency at stake. The circumstances of Eddie's death are oddly similar to those of other recently deceased executives. The trail leads Murdock to Lido Enterprises, a secret operation where upscale prostitutes dally with stressed out businessmen. For a hefty fee, they initiate execs into the pleasures of bondage and high-grade cocaine—and then hold their reputations for ransom. Can Murdock infiltrate this kinky crime ring and break their hold on Southern California's corporate class? Sure. But it won't be smooth sailing.

In this debut mystery featuring ex-cop turned PI Matt Murdock “the story never stops and the lushly decadent southern California life was never more so” (Publishers Weekly). Ex-cop turned private investigator Matt Murdock is picky about the cases he takes. Being a bodyguard isn't his favorite gig, especially when the client is a high-handed number-cruncher like Ellis Dean. But Murdock is short on funds, and he has to admit the case intrigues him. It involves the death of Gayla Jean Kirkwood, a good-time girl, waitress and wannabe starlet who was killed in a car wreck on the Pacific Coast Highway. Dean fires Murdock only to turn up dead shortly thereafter. So, Murdock signs on with the victim's sister, Meg Kirkwood, a gorgeous dead-ringer for Gayla Jean. Who would want Gayla Jean dead? A scorned lover? One of the men who paid to photograph her naked? Or was the real target the Mexican actor driving the doomed car? As his investigation continues, Murdock and his client will discover just how dirty deals in Hollywood can get. If they live long enough.

The hard-headed and soft-hearted PI is looking for an army buddy's killer in this “fast, accomplished and slick” chapter in the LA-set mystery series (Kirkus Reviews). Los Angeles PI Matt Murdock is happy to do a job for his old army buddy Bruce, checking into what may be a faked death. But when Bruce ends up dead for real on Huntington Beach, Matt decides to start making other people unhappy. That includes Roxanne, the lovely widow Bruce was protecting, and whose money-laundering hubby conveniently died after insuring his life ten times over. There's also the man Bruce was investigating who may or may not be dead. And the possibly-dead man's girlfriend, who has a body worth dying for. Matt doesn't know who to believe or who to trust. But he does know that he's falling too hard for Roxanne. And when he connects all the dots, he might just end up decorated with a line of lead like his old pal Bruce.