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The Mike O'Shea Crime Series: The First Three
Whether you're new to the Mike O'Shea Crime Fiction Series or just catching up, you know you're reading crime fiction as it's meant to be: authentic, fast-paced, and exploding with emotions. And here in The Mike O'Shea Crime Series book are the first three books in the series: 10-33 Assist PC, The Funeral, and Death Before Coffee all in one! Settle in for one of the best police procedural reads you've had in a long time as we follow Detective Mike OShea from his days as the young cop with a knack for following hunches right up to his time as the inner-city detective balancing family with his sown oath of duty.
Death Before Coffee
By 2:27 on a Thursday afternoon, the one-legged man from Room 8 at 147 Loxitor Avenue has been beaten to death with a lead pipe. Twenty-eight minutes later, Detective Mike O'Shea is testifying in a stuffy courtroom, unaware that, within an hour, he will be standing in an alleyway littered with beer cans and condoms while his new partner-the man who saved his life thirteen years ago-flicks bugs off of a battered corpse with a ballpoint pen. When a rogue undercover copper prematurely hauls in the prime suspect, Mike blows a fuse, resulting in an unlikely rapport developing between him and the lead homicide detective sergeant, a woman known for her stilettos and razor sharp investigative skills...
Man at the Door: Book Three in the Mike O'Shea Crime Fiction Series
It all begins at 6:10 a.m. on a Friday morning when Glen Brebeuf calls demanding answers. He had reported his former lover, Elizabeth MacDonald, missing the previous day and Detective Mike O'Shea now finds himself cleaning up the mess that some rookie had made of the initial call.Within hours, Mike takes over the investigation and is on the doorstep of the missing elderly woman's home. Sibby Mac, as she is known to her friends, is not missing. Sibby Mac has been murdered.In Man At The Door, the third in Desmond P. Ryan's Mike O'Shea Crime Fiction Series, Detective Mike O'Shea solves a homicide, juggles an increasingly complex personal life, and continues to hunt for the cop-killer who has remained at large for the past thirteen years.Whether as a stand-alone or as your next step in this six-book series, Man At The Door will keep you reading far too late into the night following Detective Mike O'Shea through the twists and turns of a homicide investigation.
10-33 Assist PC
D/C Mike O'Shea, a young cop with a knack for working hard and following hunches, is on the verge of cracking a prostitution ring when an undercover from another unit burns him. With only days left before their pimps shuttle the girls out of the country, Mike pushes his team into overdrive. Hours later, with too little information, sleep, or luck, the unthinkable happens. And now, the chase is personal. In the first of the Mike O'Shea Series, 10-33 Assist PC draws us into the dirty world of human trafficking through the eyes of the cops who put their lives on the line every day to shut it down.
Man at the Door
Detective Mike O'Shea solves a homicide, juggles an increasingly complex personal life, and continues to hunt for the cop-killer who has remained at large for the past thirteen years.
Death Before Coffee
By 2:27 on a Thursday afternoon, the one-legged man from Room 8 at 147 Loxitor Avenue had been beaten to death with a lead pipe. Twenty-eight minutes later, Detective Mike O'Shea is testifying in a stuffy courtroom, unaware that, within an hour, he will be standing in an alleyway littered with beer cans and condoms while his new partner uses a ballpoint pen to flick bugs off of a battered corpse. When a rogue undercover copper leaves Mike balancing what is legal with what is right, an unlikely rapport develops between Mike and the lead homicide investigator, a cop's cop in stilettos. At the end of his seventy-two-hour shift, three men are dead, and Mike O'Shea is floating in and out of consciousness in an emergency room hallway, two women by his side. In the second book of The Mike O'Shea Series, Death Before Coffee weaves a homicide investigation through the life of an inner-city police detective intent on balancing his responsibilities as a son, brother, and newly single father with his sworn oath of duty and the promise he made himself to find the man who murdered his former partner.
Blind Spot
Early on a Monday morning, a group of first responders are standing around a burned-out car by the waterfront. They're waiting for the detectives to arrive to show them what they've found. A well-seasoned crime reporter also just happens to be in the area. Within minutes of arriving, Detective Mike O'Shea identifies the charred remains in the car as those of a woman he's known for years, while the reporter recognizes Mike's new partner as someone she's had numerous dealings with in the past. As Mike gets closer to uncovering the truth about the body in the car while trying to protect his new partner, the stakes get higher, tempers flare, and rumors fly. Something's got to give. Or is it already too late? In the fourth book of The Mike O'Shea Series, Blind Spot brings the reader into a world of murder, deceit, and betrayal. No one is left unscathed in this searing police procedural that follows Detective Mike O'Shea, an inner-city cop fighting an uphill battle against crime, corruption, and his own human frailties.
Yesterday in Blood and Bone
Twenty stories, including the Derringer Award winning "All My Yesterdays" and the Derringer Award nominated "Cuts Like a Knife," introduce readers to the hardboiled world of crime fiction writer Michael Bracken. Included are tales of hard-bitten newspaper reporters, average men pushed too far by an uncaring world, and criminals of all stripes. Each of these stories tears back society's scabs to reveal the festering fear, prejudice, and violence hidden beneath the surface. Whether alone or helped by family, friends, and co-workers, the characters in these stories ultimately face the darkness within men's souls.
Crime Fiction
Since the mid-19th century crime fiction has been one of the most popular sub-genres of the novel. In this Very Short Introduction, Richard Bradford explores its origins and the features that define its varied style. He considers its role in popular culture around the world and considers why its classification as "literature" is still ambiguous.
A Nest of Snakes
In her fiction debut, Deborah Levison, author of the acclaimed, multi award-winning true crime book, THE CRATE, weaves a tale snatched from the headlines. A NEST OF SNAKES is loosely based on a spate of lawsuits in which adult men accused their elite private schools of abuses that shocked the nation. In A NEST OF SNAKES, Brendan Cortland is a broken man. Middle-aged, pasty, pudgy, and fearful, he suffers from chronic depression, nightmares, and agoraphobia. His contact with the outside world is limited to trolling chatrooms, where he hunts pedophiles, and a weekly session with his psychiatrist, to whom he describes dreams of being devoured by predators. The doctor suspects catastrophic abuse...
