Emory Cosgrove: 5 books

Down-and-out Vietnam veteran Fred Beary sets out to find his twin daughters, Megan and Rachel, whom he hasn’t seen for forty-six years. When Fred and Megan turn up dead, Rachel is contacted by Danny Louvain—a private detective who claims to be a brother she never knew she had. Together, they search...

Phoenix private detective Derrek Packer is transfixed by a story in the morning newspaper about the death of an unidentified teenage girl who had been raped, tortured, and beaten; then discarded alongside a country road in a neighboring county. That same day, he’s employed by super-wealthy and super-beautiful...

An explosion at the home of Copper State University CFO kills four people, including the CFO, James Donner. Sunset Hills police determine that Donner had been shot dead prior to the explosion. Acting on an anonymous tip, they find the murder gun in the office of the University Registrar, Ms. Audrey...

Jeff Fletcher retires young and seeks peace and quiet in Scottsdale, Arizona. But when he meets up with his old dream girl, he finds mayhem in a dark world of deception, corruption, blackmail, murder, and sexual exploitation. The key players in this world aren’t what they seem. Some are better, but many of them are much worse.

A coed is sexually assaulted on the campus of Copper State University. The next day, a second coed is shot in the head and discarded in the Arizona Canal. Ten years later, a US senator and his son-in-law are arrested while attempting to kidnap a ten-year-old girl from her home in an upscale suburb....