Jurisdictional disputes, competing agents - the F.B.I., the Bureau of Land Management, and Indian police - and the usual distrust of the citizens of small towns when it comes to dealing with folks from the "big city" combine to make Denver police...
Homicide Detective Gabe Wager is faced with a murder that leads him from Denver to southwest Colorado and into the tangled and secretive relationships of polygamist cults. This novel was the basis of the Charles Bronson movie, "Messenger of...
When a stripper is murdered, Gabe Wager turns the red-light district inside out.
More than any other establishment on Denver's red-light strip, the Cinnamon Club has taken advantage of the new law allowing all-nude dancing. What was once confined to...
A botched coke bust forces Wager to go undercover for the first time in years.
For six months, the Denver narcotics team and the DEA have built a case against a cocaine-dealing heavy named Farnsworth. When Detective Reitman makes the final buy, he...
Like many major cities, Denver is beset by gang violence. A cop shouldn't let it get to him, shouldn't take it personally. But when Gabe Wager's cousin Julio is found shot in an alley, murdered after denying to Gabe that he was involved in anything,...
Now working homicide, Wager lands a gruesome case in the botanic garden
Homicide cops are always suspicious of the drug enforcement division, so when ex-narcotics detective Gabe Wager arrives on the murder squad, his first assignment is the...
Denver homicide detective Gabe Wager follows a murder/arson into the world of ecoterrorists and finds himself caught up in a plot to destroy the Denver metropolitan...
A tip about a murdered mob boss forces Gabe Wager to reopen a cold case.
A year ago, Marco Scorvelli was murdered while picking up his morning paper. A sawed-off shotgun put a hole in his stomach, and streaked the inside of his sports coat with the...
Publisher's Weekly
Fans of Denver P.D. detective Gabe Wager (The Alvarez Journal, Ground Money) will be pleased to find him easing up on angst and getting back to police procedure. When black City Councilman Green is found shot to death in an empty...
Asked by an old rodeo rider to look into the activities of his sons, Denver homicide detective Gabe Wager and his girl friend Jo Fabrizio take a vacation in Western Colorado. The resulting investigation leads them to discover modern crimes lurking...