Gianna Moratelli: 16 books

Lucy Handling a rancher's daughter is missing. Sheriff Tom Moratelli has searched everywhere and can't find her. But she might not be the only one. Deputy Glen Norman starts asking questions when one of the town's working girls says her friends missing. When they finally get a suspect,...

Murder is tough enough without it being someone you know. When Lt. Novelli is called out to Lake Springfield he right away recognizes the victim as a young woman that use to date his son in Mont Fort. But that was a few years ago, and now the young woman, Alysia Tarr has been found strangled. A third...

The circus has come to town. Instead of laughter rising from the tent there's a single gun shot. A training session has gone terribly wrong, as someone has replaced the blanks in the gun with real bullets and Blondie the Orangutan has committed murder. It's a case like none other and Lt. Joe Novelli's...

Faith, the seventeen year old daughter of a preacher, is found raped and strangled in the church. The suspect, Lt. Joe Novelli's step-son Mac. Joe makes the trip to Corpus Christi to find the truth behind the murder of Faith Wilkes, but the Texas Rangers have already been there and they're pretty...

It's one o'clock in the morning when Lt, Joe Novelli gets the call. A homicide that involves his wife's high school friend Carol and her husband Todd Sieck. He finds Todd dead on the living room floor, naked.. Having just moved to Springfield six months ago, how could the car salesman had made someone...

Michael Cordell is a pilot who may be good at flying planes, but his luck with women usually ends in crash and burn. After his last girlfriend, the "Andrea fault", his co-pilot gives him some advice on the kind of woman he ought to be looking for, and it isn't a swimsuit model. Baley Cordall...

When Sheriff's Deputy Tom Zane is called to an accident regarding a pedestrian and a pickup in the country, he finds a young man lying in the road who has been shot. He calls springfield's Lt. Joe Novelli. As Novelli investigates the murder he hits a brick wall. The Amish Elders. To find the killer...

The murder of Margie Portman and her daughter, Tisha is the worse Springfield P.D. has seen for a long time. Tisha's best friend, Cheryl has been sexually assaulted and stabbed but she's still alive. Having returned from a Horrorcore concert, Lt. Joe Novelli has to determine if the violent music had...

The Reverend Darrin Thorne is a minister who has a hard time keeping his hands to himself, and having a hot-looking secretary, Morocco Gunn doesn't help. Sometimes a man's occupation gets in the way of how he wants to live. When he ends up dead while playing golf with Lt. Joe Novelli, Joe finds he...

Lisa was left a widow with a large settlement, and Doctor Lewis Chandler took the opportunity to make her his wife. But now that the money's gone he needs a new source of income. Lisa's in a "relationship" with a wealthy man named Judge George Hamill. Lewis plots out a way to make himself...

If you kill someone or have them murdered will they come back and haunt you? That's what Kenneth Maloney thinks after hiring someone to kill his wife, Abigail. The hit man said she was dead. But a few weeks after they have buried her, Kenneth is not only seeing her but hearing her. What Kenneth Maloney doesn't know is his haunting may be the work of Detective Mike Perillo.

Just when the Chief of Police Joe Novelli thinks his job can't get any tougher trying to figure out who murdered a girl, his office gets vandalized and a cop from New York shows up expressing that she can do his job better than him. Or least she thinks so. Then there's another murder and his wife,...

Roxanne loves horses and her brother Robbie's friend, Joey who's a star basketball player. But unfortunately Roxanne and Robbie's parents are strict, no dating in high school and coming home to do chores and work in their dad's garage is high on their to do list. Robbie's dreams of getting a scholarship...

Katherine's acquitted for the murder of her and ex-husband, police officer Ray Collins, daughter Catlin. The next morning she's shot in the parking lot of the Springfield Inn in front of two police officers, but no one sees the shooter and a search of the area comes up empty, Lt. Joe Novelli investigates...