Robert Wangard: 8 books

The brutal murder of a prominent real estate developer stuns the ake community and sets faction against faction.  PeteThorsen stays out of it; he's still nursing emotional woulds from a case a year earlier.  Then the victim'swidow asks him to help sort out her late husband;s financial affairs. ...

Pete Thorsen is looking forward to a quiet vacation at Clear Lake.  That changes when he meets Cara Lane and she turns up dead the following day in mysterious circumstances.  Eyed as a suspect, bad things start to happen when he pokes around in self-defense.  He's hassled in a bar...

An accident . . . or murder? A prominent writer is fatally shot during a commemorative mock battle at which live ammunition was prohibited. Pete Thorsen gets dragged into the ensuing investigation when a close friend prevails upon him to represent one of the murder suspects. Trouble...

What do you do when a former lover turns up dead...and you discover everything she told you was a lie?  That question burns in Pete Thorsen's mind and as he searches for an answer, he finds himself caught up in a much wider deadly game.  The twists and turns in Deceit will keep you nailed to your seat. 

BENEATH THE FLAMBOYANCE . . . When an army buddy Pete Thorsen has barely seen in thirty years appears on his doorstep without notice, Pete s surprised, but chalks it up to his onetime friend s eccentric personality. Then he begins to notice things. Puzzled, Pete asks a detective he knows to check...

Early April isn't the season for vandals, so when someone throws a bag of red fluid against Pete Thorsen's door in the middle of the night, he wonders what s going on. Then he sees the threatening note. A few nights later, his security alarm is triggered and he finds another note. Now Pete's antennae...

A RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE OR MURDER? When Pete s friend is shot and killed while jet skiing, a firestorm of suspicion and tension roils the quiet lake community. It s personal for Pete, too, because his teenage daughter was only ten feet away when it happened. Then Pete discovers that the dead man...