Jess Waid: 12 books

A psycho haunts the hills of Hollywood in the early 'sixties. LAPD officer, Mike Montego, working Hollywood Division, answers a radio call and discovers a beheaded female body on his hilly beat. He's not a detective, but that's exactly why he joined the force. He wants to work Homicide Division one...

LA in the early Sixties + cool jazz, hot women, relentless bad guys & one determined cop! LAPD officer Mike Montego is approached by the mother of an old school friend, concerned that her jazz musician son may be in serious trouble. Montego tracks him down, in the process uncovering a mob...

It’s mid-afternoon when I coast into the dingy parking lot behind Peacock Alley on the west side of Western Avenue south of Hollywood Boulevard, way too early for the musicians to be there. I intend to question them tonight. My bad thoughts remain as I check the area. I look for anything, shell...

It’s 1962, springtime in Hollywood, and LAPD patrol cop Mike Montego, with several years on the job, finds suspicious activity occurring on his hilly beat. Why are two Hollywood division burglary detectives carrying framed paintings into a residence? Perhaps they are returning stolen property ....

Brenda Mackay, the mother of four, one an infant girl, was in love with Coyle when they married; but when he returned from Korea he was a different man. Not the boy she had married. Now he is cruel, belt-whipping their oldest son. Coyle moves them constantly to avoid law enforcement officials. Stuck...

LAPD detective Mike Montego can't seem to escape trouble. Fleeing the mean streets of Los Angeles for the balmy beaches of Hawaii to clear his mind after a hasty Vegas wedding, he soon finds himself saying aloha to Waikiki as he rolls up his investigative sleeves and tackles the task of unraveling...

Imagine you’re a cop confronted by a mobster who claims your father is a hit man who quit the Mafia decades earlier. Add to that a threat that if you don’t make some hits for the mob, your father is a dead man. Obviously in disbelief, you worry. You have two choices: tell your pop about the mobster’s...

It's Hollywood in the early '60s. Men are brash, women are brassy, and cars are big. Plainclothes cop Mike Montego has a problem, and his name is Neall Haley, who happens to be Montego's partner. Something's very wrong, and Montego needs to find out what fast before someone gets hurt -- him!

LAPD detective Mike Montego can't seem to escape trouble. Fleeing the mean streets of Los Angeles for the balmy beaches of Hawaii to clear his mind after a hasty Vegas wedding, he soon finds himself saying aloha to Waikiki as he rolls up his investigative sleeves and tackles the task of unraveling...

It's 1961. The Berlin Wall goes up, the Bay of Pigs invasion flops, punks cruise the Boulevard with their tops down blasting Chubby Checker's "Pony TIme," and women are being savagely butchered on LAPD cop Mike Montego's beat. Something's got to give, and it won't be Montego.

Mike Montego in his last days as a patrol officer in Hollywood, finds himself receiving more radio calls having to do with domestic violence. One incident tears at his soul. He risks his career to help the female victim, the mother of four including an infant. What transpires has him looking at his own recent marriage and his future with his new wife.

Young, eager LAPD cop Mike Montego has to deal with a series of art thefts, crooked cops, a passionate, complicated girlfriend, kinky sex, and bloody mayhem. After all, it's Hollywood in the early '60s!