David Benson: 11 books

  LO, HAPPINESS IS ABIDING FOR THOSE WHO APPRECIATE THE BASIC LAWS OF ITS ATTAINMENT   Unveil the secretsof the venerable City of Zion in the style and tone of the already classic work, The Richest Man in Babylon. Business leaders, community servants, self-improvement...

KIRKUS REVIEW--Benson’s tightly plotted crime thriller is sure to please fans of police procedurals--a Kirkus Star novel. Wealthy middle-aged Manhattanites—the baby boomers of the title—have been gruesomely murdered, and Det. Carina Quintana senses a connection. But how can she prove it? The...

Havana Homicide is the latest in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series by Kirkus Award winning author David M Benson. Something as prosaic as a police chiefs convention brings Carina to Havana but she's got way stronger Cuban connections than that. Her grandparents emigrated from Cuba just before...

The latest Carina Quintana Mystery, from Kirkus Award winning author David Benson, has Carina facing her first homicide as Assistant Chief of the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida PD. When the body of a young woman washes up on the beach in front of a local luxury hotel, a little digging sets Carina...

Detective Carina Quintana’s latest challenge takes on an unwelcome personal flavor in the harrowing Dead On a Rival. When the apparent accidental fall of a handsome Brazilian tycoon from a luxury cruise ship in the Caribbean interrupts Carina’s holiday with the edgy Alice, Carina is not the only...

Money Side Up is the seventh in the award-winning Carina Quintana Mysteries series. Money Side Up opens as Carina and a cadre of Florida law enforcement officers find themselves in a deadly firefight with an outlaw biker gang trying to complete a major drug deal. In the aftermath, Carina is faced...

Carina Quintana's latest case takes her back to New York City, where someone is leaving bodies, gruesomely stabbed in the heart, on church altars. Now wealthy and celebrated through her true crime books and settled in with the alluring Alice, the former chief of Miami Beach PD is in need of new challenges....

Miami Beach police chief Carina Quintana is hot on the trail of a twisted killer who mails home pieces of his young female victims before delivering the coupe de grace. Can this heartless predator really be the world-famous crime novelist with a home in Paris and a Miami mansion whose books eerily...

ROOMER HAS IT is the hotly anticipated sequel to the first Carina Quintana mystery, LATE BOOMER, a Kirkus Star & Top 100 of 2012 award winner! Home again in Miami Beach and now the Magic City's youngest police chief, Carina is faced with finding a killer whose spree began as revenge for the death...

The ninth installment in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series, Three Strikes and You’re Dead pits the tough and beautiful Fort Lauderdale police chief against the worst sort of serial killer imaginable. A profiler's nightmare, this cleverly disguised, merciless merchant of death travels the...

A love story for all time, Dark Fire: Yesterday's Tears begins with a chance encounter between Jane Garrison, an elite fighter who has been grievously wounded in combat, and Edan Duff, the young entrepreneur and creator of marvelous devices, whose genius will save her but turn her into the mystery...