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Author
Series
Cornelia Brown novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Thirty-one-year-old Philadelphia café manager Cornelia Brown, who harbors romantic notions about golden-age Hollywood film stars, embarks on a too-good-to-be-true relationship with the debonair Martin Grace.
3) Lady killer
Author
Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 10
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
4) Guilty
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"One cold November night when Kat Kominski was fifteen years old, she and some friends held up a convenience store. In the heat of the moment, one of the others shot and killed an off-duty cop moonlighting as a security guard. Kat and her pals fled the scene in a panic, and no one was caught." "Sixteen years later, Kat - now Kate White - has built a new life for herself. Now a single mom with an eight-year-old son, she works as a prosecutor in the...
5) Lion & Lamb
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Philadelphia is in a state of shock over the fate of two hometown heroes: Eagles starting quarterback Archie Hughes, and his even more famous wife, Grammy-winning singer Francine Hughes. One spouse is murdered. The other is suspect #1. Even before the case hits the courtroom, it's the hottest ticket in town. For the defense: Cooper Lamb, private investigator to the stars. For the prosecution: Veena Lion, a sleuth so bright she's got to wear shades....
11) The traffickers
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 9
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuykill River. Everybody assumes they're not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it--and that hunch leads him far from the City of Brotherly...
13) Killer smile
Author
Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
Mary DiNunzio gets a terrifying telephone call while she's working late, then goes home to find a shadow lurking at her front door. When a lawyer close to her turns up dead, Mary begins to suspect that the case she's been working on -- involving the suicide of an Italian-American in an internment camp during World War II -- may not be ancient history after all.Performed by Kate Burton
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The boy was born and raised on the tony Main Line. But he vanished on Philadelphia's mean streets. For Myron Bolitar, his client, golf superstar Linda Coldren, comes first--and that means unraveling the mystery of her son's kidnapping. But when Myron goes after the missing boy, he crashes through a crowd of lowlifes, blue bloods, and liars on both sides of the social divide. And as Linda's golf-pro husband suddenly makes a run at the U.S. Open championship,...
18) Our Gen: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the Gen, an upscale fifty-five-plus community, Cynthia befriends two other black residents, as well as a woman who everyone assumes is from India, creating a camaraderie that becomes the catalyst for secrets to be exposed.
19) The vigilantes
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 10
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"There's a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much, because the victims are street thugs and lowlifes. But as Homicide sergeant Matt Payne starts looking under the right rocks, he gets a feeling there's more going on than just bad guys burning one another..." -- inside front cover.
20) The last witness
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 11
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Investigating rumors about a new partnership between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob, Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne struggles to dismantle an increasingly violent operation involving Russian sex slaves and kidnapped foster teens.
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