Frederick Huebner: 5 books

Seattle lawyer Matt Riordan returns to narrate the follow-up to Huebner's Edgar nominee Judgment by Fire. Matt's lover, Lisa Thayer, receives a mysterious postcard bearing a recently painted watercolor that seems to be the work of her grandfather, Lee Thayer. However, Lee, a famous artist of the Pacific...

In the fifth Matt Riordan novel, Riordan had hoped to leave law forever. But when his ex-girlfriend, attorney Elizabeth Kleinfeldt, reveals her startling conviction that Robert Polhaus, known for abusing women for his own sexual gratification and this history helps convict him of murdering two prostitutes,...

Matt Riordan’s friend, Hugh Prokop, is a nice guy, who has run into bad luck. Prokop’s Seattle marine business has hit a rough patch and now his warehouse has burned down. Inside, the fire department finds a safe filled with a quarter of a million dollars and the crispy corpse of Prokop’s accountant....

Matt Riordan is got up in Stephen Turner’s murder when he not only witnesses the young exec’s death, but Turner’s sister, Kate, asks Riordan to investigate her brother’s death. Riordan finds himself examining the records of a notorious group of student revolutionaries called the Northwest...

Matt Riordan is back on the case. This time, Riordan has been asked to discreetly investigate the White Rose Mountain ski area—a Montana Pacific venture that is well under way when the head of its environmental survey team disappears. Riordan’s assignment quickly turns nasty. Sinister forces have...