Desmond P Ryan: 3 books

“Amore mio, Mikey,” Julia whispered. “He’s dead.” A cop is shot. A mother loses her son. A city is in mourning. What does that look like from the inside? 'The Funeral', a stand-alone novella or the epilogue to '10-33 Assist PC', brings us into the intimate world of those...

Detective Constable Mike O'Shea is a young cop with a knack for working hard and following hunches. On the verge of cracking a mid-sized prostitution ring, an undercover team from another unit and an overzealous traffic cop burn his intel. In an effort to save the girls before the pimps shuttle them...

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...