David Fears: 27 books

Mike and Molly are married on Christmas Day in 1967, but upon leaving the Reno chapel a stray bullet strikes Molly in the head. As desperate weeks and months pass with Molly in a coma, Mike cannot go south to find the shooter. Sanity forces him to take on a routine insurance fraud case, reported stolen...

In Dark Drama, the 12th novel in the series set in Portland in 1971, Mike Angel stumbles into his office during a power outage to discover a stunning look-alike for Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr posed in his loveseat. At first he talks to the woman, then discovers to his horror she’s been murdered...

Stunned by the tragic loss of his soul mate, Quentin Haggerty flees east with no destination in mind, desperate to find peace. A wise old man in a small town café nudges him to meet the town police chief, who offers him a deputy position. Q’s bearing and experience qualify him, and he signs on...

In 1969 private eye Mike Angel works a routine missing persons case that falls into Albina, the black section of Portland, where a seductive light-skinned siren coaxes Mike to help black businessmen carry out a boycott of corrupt white bar owners and illegal gambling. She also coaxes him carnally,...

“Dark Sleep,” #17: Mike’s check for a missing person case bounces, leading him to the client’s house, where he discovers a triple murder: the client, his girlfriend and a mystery man in black. The client’s wealthy mother hires Mike to sort things out. Mike chases leads about the dead girl...

In late 1966, the world’s richest man, Howard Hughes, took occupancy of the top two floors of the Desert Inn on the Strip in Las Vegas. After his time was up he refused to vacate the space, and wound up buying the Inn for thirteen million dollars from the Mob. Earlier that year Mike and Rick...

Mike becomes embroiled in the Patty Hearst kidnap case when he discovers the missing man he seeks was invited to join the Symbionese Liberation Army, the ragtag revolutionary group who kidnapped Hearst. Mike navigates feelings for an admired female FBI agent and gets caught in the web of a voracious...

After witnessing a barefoot bank robber two blocks from his office, an iron-fisted boss who ran the longshoreman’s union since the 1930s hires Mike to find the killer of his granddaughter. The victim was a loose-morals woman who slept with both sides of a labor war. The victim’s sister was a client’s...

Behind a remote lodge overlooking Crescent City California, stands a mysterious lookout tower used to signal the shoreline and ships at sea. The signals coordinate marijuana shipments. Mike seeks two women missing from the same area. Were they abducted by a drug cartel? Mike comes in contact with...

Following Pearl Harbor, Quentin “Q” Haggerty is working in an Oregon shipyard when his attractive assistant Mattie asks him to investigate the theft of a family heirloom. Q is drawn to Mattie and thinks of himself as something of an amateur sleuth, but soon stumbles on to two murders. While working...

After deciding to quit investigations due to Molly’s condition, Mike takes renovating houses as a new career. He buys one for a dollar to move and flip, but discovers a corpse in a wall, wrapped in canvas. The wrapper turns out to be a parachute and the FBI at first identifies it as the very chute...

#20 in the series set in Portland and British Columbia.This last episode begins when a vision from Mike’s first big case visits his office using lies and hypnosis to achieve her ends. The woman is a spitting image of her aunt who died in a hail of bullets in the 1960 case, a woman Mike became...

In this final novel in the Trilogy set in 1947, Quentin is faced with his greatest challenge yet, to nail a serial arson killer responsible for two murders. All his detective skills are tested as he seeks to uncover motives surrounding a 22 year old rape case that ended with injustice. The judge and...