Michael Paulson: 12 books

Private Detective Deacon Bishop doesn't especially like the missing person case he's assigned. For one thing, he's afraid his client will kill the man if he finds him. For another, something just doesn't feel right. But Bishop's qualms about this case are nothing compared...

Private detective Deacon Bishop is feeling his age when he's awakened in the middle of the night by a low-rent hoodlum. But the criminal, Davey Kenyon, has something Bishop wants so bad he can smell it--evidence against the Portello crime family. Before the two can reach a bargain, though, Kenyon...

Still reeling from his recent divorce, American Harry Bronstein plans a peaceful European vacation. Flirting with the pretty attendant at the ferry ticket station or the buxom blonde he meets on the ship itself are part of the program. Getting into the middle of a three-way battle between Chechen...

If he hadn't turned into the rest stop for a nature call, Deacon Bishop never would have heard about the hundred million dollars--or gotten involved with his favorite Mafia family, the Portellos. But he did make the stop--and gave a lift to the woman who claimed to be a Fed, claimed to simply...

Even detectives need to pay the rent, which is why Deacon Bishop found himself spending nights taking pictures of an unfaithful wife and her lover. Considering the wife’s lifestyle, it wasn’t a complete surprise when she turned up missing but Bishop agrees to take the job of finding her… if...

He's the top lawyer in Texas, but when his beautiful assistant is murdered, Philibert Q. Winslow becomes a suspect. Isn't it reasonable, the police argue, that his love for Gila might have turned to hatred as she continually showered her physical affections on others. Winslow is confindent...

Whether you believe it or not, there’s no better place to escape one’s past than at sea. Or so I learned after an impulse put me aboard the freighter, Cappella.My name is Kyle Parker. I’m a litigator from Austin, Texas. My adventure started after I accompanied my Brazilian stepmother’s mortal...

Newly released from prison, Mike Zeeman and Tio Menotti don't have any money, any friends, or any prospects other than a vague idea of heading to California. When Meri Darling, their former partner, offers them a job, they don't have a lot of alternatives to taking it. Meri is the reason...

Lawyer Chambers Elliot suspects something strange about the supposed priest in his office. Still, Elliot can't ignore the priest's story. But when evidence points to the Portello crime family, he wonders who's setting him up, and what scam is being played.Hard-boiled mystery fiction.

Stuart S. Stuart comes to Paris to find artistic inspiration. Instead, he falls for a Mafiosa's wife, becomes a murder suspect, gets beat up by criminals searching for millions worth of diamonds, and learns that some of his student works have been fradulently sold to another Mafia boss...with the promise that they're genuine old masters. Then there are the police...

When a scruffy ex-boxer picks up P.I. Deacon Bishop at the south Texas airport, Bishop worries that he's made a long trip for nothing. Because Leon Huggins doesn't look like he could pay a bar tab, let alone a detective's retainer. But Leon isn't the client--not at first, anyway....

It sounds like an easy job--trail a woman from the airport to her destination and call in where she went. In fact, the job sounds too easy for hardboiled P.I. Deacon Bishop. Still, he needs the money. So...Unfortunately, Bishop is right. Before he can say 'sting,' he's caught in a web of deadly redheads, angry terrorists, murder and... honeybees.