Brian Thiem: 3 books

STRONG SALES: Thiem has a strong sales track from his first book in all formats with room to grow. EXPERT AUTHOR: With years of experience both as a homicide detective in Oakland and as a military investigator in Iraq, Brian Thiem has the kind of expertise that other crimes writers would kill...

When a teenager from a wealthy suburb outside of Oakland, CA is dumped at an inner city bus stop, homicide detective Matt Sinclair catches the case. It's his first since being bumped to desk duty for a bust that went south... fast. With few leads and plenty of attention, it's the worst kind of case...

Cops in Oakland seldom meet people whose lives are going well. That's certainly the case when homicide sergeant Matt Sinclair recognizes the dead woman hanging from a tree as a teenage runaway named Dawn he arrested ten years before. And as Sinclair and his partner, Cathy Braddock, soon learn, many...