The Leo Haggerty Mysteries Series

In DC and the Caribbean, Haggerty protects a rock icon’s life Jane Doe and the Pleasure Principal are halfway through their Memorial Day concert when the crowd gets violent. A fan charges Jane, but is caught by a security guard, who tosses him off the stage, shattering both his legs. A few weeks later, the fan is suing the band for damages, and a series of death threats have Jane fearing for her life. She needs a bodyguard who’s willing to crack skulls to keep her safe. She needs Leo Haggerty.   A bruising DC private investigator, Haggerty agrees to guard Jane for the forty-eight hours leading up to the deposition. As her feuding band mates threaten to tear the group apart, danger comes at Jane from all sides—starting in Washington and following them all the way to the Caribbean.   The Things We Do for Love is the 4th book in the Leo Haggerty Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.  

Leo Haggerty put his life on the line to investigate a mysterious woman Her name is Sarabeth Timmons, and she grew up tough. A twelve-year-old runaway, Sarabeth spent her teen years squatting and turning tricks, and her twenties on the road with one of California’s roughest motorcycle gangs. Nothing good has ever happened to her—until now. Sarabeth has come forward to claim a $630,000 inheritance. Finally, she tells the court, her life can begin anew. A touching story, thinks private detective Leo Haggerty, but not a word of it is true.   Hired by the executors of the estate to investigate Sarabeth, Haggerty quickly finds that nothing about her is as it seems. Her hard-knock past was largely a fabrication, but she does have an interesting background, and a long resume as a porn star. When Sarabeth skips town, it’s up to Haggerty to find her—before the girl without a past becomes a woman with no future.   Mexico Is Forever is the 6th book in the Leo Haggerty Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.  

A faked suicide sucks Leo Haggerty into the investigation of a terrorist bombing Leo Haggerty walks the long wall of the Vietnam War Memorial, his girlfriend, Samantha, and his best friend, Arnie, at his sides. Arnie wanders away and meets a young boy whose mother asks if the veteran could lift her son up high enough to read the name of his uncle, his namesake. Some men might break down at the sight of the wall, but Arnie is stone-faced. Since he returned from ’Nam, nothing moves him at all. That night, a newsbreak: There’s been a bombing at the memorial. Nineteen are dead, including the child.   The FBI pursues the case doggedly, but they get nowhere, and it falls to Haggerty to prove that a man found dead in a motel room, suicide note by his side, did not, in fact, kill himself. As the case points him toward the bombers whose rampage has struck fear into the heart of Washington, DC, Haggerty will find out there’s a dark side to patriotism.   A Tax in Blood is the 3rd book in the Leo Haggerty Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.  

A search for a missing thirteen-year-old leads Leo Haggerty down a dark path Miranda Benson has been gone for twenty-four hours. Her parents don’t know her habits, don’t know her friends. They don’t even have a recent picture of her. But Miranda’s mother is desperate and brings in bruising private detective Leo Haggerty to look for the girl—quietly, lest Miranda’s father find out. Mr. Benson returns home in a frothing rage, and tells Haggerty to get out or risk a broken neck. Haggerty leaves without a fight; he has no need for clients who can’t control their tempers.   Two days later, Mr. Benson calls Haggerty to apologize. Miranda never came home, and her parents are losing hope. Haggerty will step into hell to find their daughter, but he may return with something horrible: the truth.   All the Old Bargains is the 2nd book in the Leo Haggerty Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.  

Undone by twin tragedies, Leo Haggerty becomes obsessed with revenge The neo-Nazis cruise past the synagogue on Yom Kippur, opening fire right after services end. In the name of hate, a rabbi is gunned down in front of his congregation. The killers are caught, but the driver jumps bail, and it takes hard-nosed bounty hunter Arnie Kendall to track him down. To help him bring in the mammoth thug, Kendall asks a favor of his best friend, private detective Leo Haggerty. Haggerty is supposed to be home with his girlfriend, Samantha, but in this line of work, the job comes first—and tragedy follows.   A hired psychopath breaks into Haggerty’s house, and brutally attacks Samantha. Soon after, Kendall is gunned down in the street. His life shattered, Haggerty responds the only way he knows how: He grits his teeth, cocks his gun, and goes in search of revenge.   A Fistful of Empty is the 5th book in the Leo Haggerty Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.  

A world-weary Private Investigator cracks open an ice-cold kidnapping case The police stopped looking for Herb Saunders’s daughters long ago, but Saunders never stopped hoping they were still alive. Five years after Tina and Molly walked off, a call comes from a man with an icy voice who says he has Saunders’s girls. Three days of tortured waiting later, another call comes in and he hears one daughter’s voice. The other, says the man on the phone, doesn’t speak anymore.   Saunders traces the call, and then disappears, gone in search of the kidnapper. Finding out what happened to this desperate father and his long-gone children falls to Leo Haggerty, a private investigator who knows Washington, DC, better than anyone—and who is about to discover a dark side of the nation’s capital that’s better left unseen.   Embrace the Wolf is the 1st book in the Leo Haggerty Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.