The Noah Braddock Series

Noah Braddock remembers Marilyn Crier as the stuck-up mother of his high school girlfriend, Kate. Back then she thought Noah was strictly out of her daughter's league. Now she's appeared out of the blue because Kate's missing, and she thinks Noah might be able to find her -- for old time's sake. But as the investigation deepens, Noah discovers more about Kate than he ever wanted to. A lifetime away from high school, she's been traveling in dark circles, and it's going to take pretty sharp moves if Noah wants to make it back out alive.

Noah Braddock is just living from wave to wave, catching a nice break from his private eye business. So when Peter Pluto asks Noah to look for his missing younger brother, Linc, Noah takes the case reluctantly-and quickly finds out that Linc is not your average undergrad. Aided by his friend Carter and a beautiful Rastafarian coed, Noah discovers that Linc stole money from a white supremacist group. The skinheads will stop at nothing to find Linc-and when Noah wakes up at the bottom of a canyon, beaten and bruised, with a corpse lying next to him, he realizes he's next on their list...and in for the ride of his life.

Noah Braddock needs a job. After striking a deal with the district attorney, Noah is settling back in to life in San Diego. But work is hard to come by, so when he's offered a case involving a mysterious girl and some photographs, he accepts the job. What is supposed to be an easy case quickly turns complicated when a man goes missing. Suddenly, Noah finds himself in the thick of something far more dire than just identifying a girl. Instead, he finds himself fighting for someone's life. And Noah's just might be in danger, too.

Noah Braddock's past won't leave him alone. After a self-imposed exile in Florida, Noah is back in San Diego, ready to face the fallout from the crime he committed. He doesn't want to go to jail, but he doesn't want to live his life as a fugitive, either. When the district attorney offers him the chance to walk free, Noah listens. Her request is simple: investigate an assault on a local college campus, provide her with what he finds, and she'll assure that charges won't be brought against him. Noah reluctantly agrees, suspicious of both the deal and what he might find. His suspicion turns out to be correct, as he's dropped into a case where people can't remember and don't want to share what they know. The more he digs, the more confusing it becomes. And as the district attorney demands answers in exchange for his freedom, Noah realizes that the deal he's struck might be more than he bargained for.

The unexpected death of a friend in the surfing community brings an old classmate into Noah’s life. A classmate looking for answers. When Mitchell Henderson, the owner of The Blue Wave motel and an icon in the local surfing community, dies in a car crash, Anne Sullivan asks Noah to do a little digging. Not because she suspects any wrongdoing, but because she needs closure, and because she seriously doubts he was capable of reckless driving. What starts as a favor to an old high school friend quickly becomes something more, especially when Anne finds herself on the wrong side of mysterious threats and outright harassment. Noah soon discovers that there are more pieces to the puzzle than he realized, including a betrayed widow, a mountain of debt, and some shady characters who were pressing hard on Mitchell Henderson. Noah needs to move fast. Not just to give Anne the answers she’s looking for, but quite possibly to save her life, too.

Working as a bouncer at a local nightclub isn't Noah Braddock's ideal gig. He'd rather be solving cases, but his private investigator skills aren't exactly in high demand…until Cynthia Guzman, a local immigration attorney, shows up at the door desperate for help. Noah doesn't know the first thing about immigration law. Anxious to ditch the door job, he takes the case and soon finds himself immersed in a complex world of immigration, politics, and crime. As he works to help Guzman's clients unravel the maze they've unwittingly entered, he learns that not everyone is playing by the same rules. And some people aren't playing by any rules at all. As Noah unravels the truth about what is going on—and the powerful people involved—he knows he's in a race against time before more people are hurt…or killed. Including himself.

Noah's going back to college…but this time, to investigate a death. A young co-ed's death has been ruled an accident, but the university fears a lawsuit from the girl's family and hires Noah to gather as much information as possible about the night she died. Noah starts asking questions and soon suspects the young woman's death might be more than a simple accident. When he learns of a small discrepancy in the medical examiner's findings, Noah believes the police may have been too quick to rule her death an accident, especially when he starts digging into the true nature of the relationships she had with others on campus. But no one saw what happened the night she died. At least, that's what people are telling Noah. Are they telling the truth? Or are they hiding a different truth?