Capital Stree Books: 4 books

It was day one on the job for Detective Alexandra “Alex” Steele in D.C.’s Second District, and right off the bat she was assigned to work a cold case. A double homicide. A Washington couple had been brutally murdered 9 years before in one of the capital city’s upscale neighborhoods. All previous...

Years before, when the teenage daughter of a U.S. Senator inexplicably disappeared on a residential street in an upscale Washington, D.C., neighborhood police pulled out all the stops to find out what happened to her. Despite a major law enforcement effort that included not only the Metropolitan...

Pete Melancon, following his dismissal from the New Orleans Police Department, reluctantly took the position of chief of police in Orton in East Texas, a town of about 10,000 people. As he told friends back in the Big Easy, this would be piece of cake; no real crime, just the day-in, day-out tedium of small town law enforcement. He was dead wrong!

A few months ago Dan Bingham was a respected Washington, D.C., newspaper reporter. Now, he’s on the run. His life changed overnight when he was assigned to write an article on death row inmates. To his shock and surprise, one of those he’d interview - an unrepentant serial killer - would turn...