BOOKS
The Detective Nan Vining Thrillers
4th in the series out 5/25/10
Ballantine mass market paperback
ISBN: 978-0-345-49955-4
Also available as an e-book
Homicide police detective, single mother to a teenage daughter, and lover of partner Jim Kissick, Nan Vining wishes life was a little more serene -- like it is at Georgia Berryhill’s Malibu Canyon compound. Or like it’s supposed to be, anyway. A healing ground for the well-heeled, three bizarre deaths bring Vining and Kissick through its exclusive gates. First there’s the double homicide of a celebrity private eye and his nude, drugged-out lover. Then there’s the inexplicable drowning of a Pasadena socialite. Georgia Berryhill—the charismatic self-help guru to the stars--is one improbable element linking both investigations. Another is Vining’s own mother, who was a friend to one of the victims and was being wooed by another. Now, A-listers and wannabe poseurs, lost souls and keepers of long hidden secrets all converge at the Berryhill Compound. Some search for love and happiness, while others come for murder.
3rd in the series
Ballantine hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-345-49952-3 (0-345-49952-2)
Mass market paperback out 4/27/10
ISBN: 978-0-345-49953-0
Also available as an e-book
Detective Nan Vining investigates what appears to be a routine gang shooting, only to discover there is nothing typical about it. While the bodies pile up, Nan’s renewed romance with her partner Jim Kissick reaches a crisis point as Nan careens into a dangerous, perhaps final confrontation with her own nemesis, T.B. Mann.
2nd in the series
Ballantine mass market paperback
ISBN: 978-0-345-48620-2 (0-345-48620-X)
Also available as an e-book
The savage murders of a billboard tycoon and his trophy girlfriend in his mansion bring Nan Vining and Jim Kissick, partner and on-and-off lover, perilously close to a psycho killer with vengeance on his brilliantly devious mind. Meanwhile, Nan’s obsessive, secret investigation into T.B. Mann, “The Bad Man” who attacked her and left her for dead, threatens to derail her career.
1st in the series
Ballantine mass market paperback
ISBN: 978-0-345-48618-9 (0-345-48618-8)
Also available in hardcover and as an e-book
In the best-selling series debut, Vining returns to work a year after she was viciously attacked in a sadistic ambush in which her assailant escaped and she died--for two minutes. Her first case back on the job involves the brutal murder of a female LAPD vice officer. As Vining pursues the trail of this ruthless killer, his methods recall those of her own attacker, whom Nan and her fourteen-year-old daughter have dubbed T.B. Mann—The Bad Man.