Dell Shannon: 86 books

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times Queer cases run in batches in Los Angeles and Lieutenant Luis Mendoza has a few of them on his books. There's the case of the man who is terrified of vampires and who comes to a violent end; there's the odd affair of the theft...

A perfect collection of short stories for Dell Shannon fans and mystery lovers everywhere, featuring eight cases of her popular Lieutenant Luis Mendoza, alongside six intriguing non-series tales. Mysteries include the case of an exasperated husband who may have murdered his nagging wife - but...

Lieutenant Luis Mendoza is faced with a crime close to home when his four-year-old twins are kidnapped. Not even Mendoza's crystal ball can help him while his colleagues explore every possible theory and lead. Are the twins being held for ransom? Or is the kidnapping a form of revenge? Mendoza...

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times Lieutenant Luis Mendoza is beset by two insistent puzzlers: how does his team nail the pair who are staging hold-ups at the best restaurants in town? And who was responsible for the brutal murder of an elderly widow? Will Mendoza's famous hunches point him to the answers?

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times When a respectable young woman's naked body is found far from her home, the case proves baffling for Lieutenant Luis Mendoza of the Los Angeles Homicide squad. But Mendoza is struggling with more than the case. He's...

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times There's no holiday from crime at the Los Angeles Police Department, not even at Christmas. Among a string of bizarre cases, there's the very mysterious killing of Lila Askell, the young devout Mormon who was on her way home...

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times An earthquake shakes Southern California and the Los Angeles Police Department. With no air-conditioning and a temperature around 98 degrees the heat is turned up when there's a triple shooting of a highly respected Doctor,...

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times One of Lieutenant Luis Mendoza's most respected colleagues, young detective Tom Landers is under suspicion in a stolen car racket. Internal affairs are investigating but Mendoza is not going to leave his man to the uncertain...

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times Things begin to heat up in the Los Angeles Police Department when Lieutenant Luis Mendoza's stolid and good-natured colleague Sergeant Higgins is kidnapped by three dangerous escaped prisoners. A manhunt is launched...

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times When a con-man with many aliases is found shot dead in his car, there is only one clue - a single word that he had scrawled on a memo-pad as he was dying - and the suspects are many. Enter Lieutenant Mendoza and his...

Two men involved in a heist are wanted for double homicide; the body of a young punk is found in an alley; the corpse of a girl lies in the dry riverbed. Everything is, in fact, more or less routine for Lieutenant Luis Mendoza and his colleagues in the Los Angeles Police Department. Then they get...

In Lieutenant Luis Mendoza's first case, he is faced with a three-way mystery involving the senseless killing of Elena Ramirez, a blackmailing involving a below-the-radar adoption, and a young man's guilt. And when Mendoza connects Elena's death with that of another woman, and investigates two further hunches, he draws closer to a solution . . . 'Quite Outstanding' Guardian

'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times Two little girls have been raped and murdered and every available officer in The Los Angeles Police Department is on the case. Lieutenant Mendoza's team meticulously make enquiries - there's house-to-house checking,...

The Los Angeles Homicide Department is a revolving door of crime where Lieutenant Luis Mendoza has hardly time to grab a sandwich between the serial muggings of seven senior citizens, the disappearance of a wheelchair-bound man, and the killing of one of two runaway girls. All this and Mendoza...