Rochelle Krich Books In Order

Jessie Drake Books In Order

  1. Fair Game (1993)
  2. Angel of Death (1994)
  3. Blood Money (1999)
  4. Dead Air (2000)
  5. Shadows of Sin (2001)

Molly Blume Books In Order

  1. Blues in the Night (2002)
  2. Dream House (2003)
  3. Grave Endings (2004)
  4. Now You See Me… (2005)

Novels

  1. Where’s Mommy Now? (1990)
  2. Till Death Do Us Part (1992)
  3. Nowhere to Run (1994)
  4. Speak No Evil (1996)
  5. Fertile Ground (1998)

Anthologies edited

  1. Murder on Sunset Boulevard (2002)

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Rochelle Krich Books Overview

Fair Game

‘No cause for alarm’, says Detective Jessie Drake on the evening news. ‘Be alert and wary of unfamiliar faces, lock your doors. We have several leads..’. But as the newly appointed departmental spokesperson, Jessie knows full well that there are no leads. At least no sane leads. Just insane clues, left by a serial killer who is as playfully clever as he is cunningly dangerous. Five victims have been murdered thus far. Five different neighborhoods. The only link between them is the cause of death: each died by a lethal injection of curare. The police are stymied. Not since Spider Woman has anybody used curare, blow dart poison, as a murder weapon of choice. As the odd and mystifyingly obscure clues mount, something begins to click in Jessie’s mind. Why do some of the bodies have bank deposit slips and money attached to them while one bears a parking ticket, of all things? Jessie can’t quite put her finger on the connection. It’s something from her childhood, something so familiar…
. Suddenly, Jessie figures it out, and she is stunned by the killer’s twisted brilliance: the game he is playing is all too real. The gameboard is the city of Los Angeles and the winner claims his prize in blood.

Angel of Death

Some things are uglier than homicide and ultimately as dangerous. For Barry Lewis, a Los Angeles attorney famous for handling controversial cases, danger comes in the form of a note on his front door: ‘The Angel of Death spared your forefathers will he spare you?’ To LAPD detective Jessie Drake, the message is as ominous as the red paint smeared across Lewis’s doorposts and the Star of David scrawled across his door. Is this threat intended only for Lewis, or for the entire Jewish community? Lewis, Jessie soon learns, is everyone’s enemy. Especially now that he’s representing a group of neo Na*zis, Holocaust deniers, and skinheads who want to parade through two predominantly Jewish neighborhoods on Hitler’s birthday. The Jewish community, enraged, is preparing for a confrontation. Lewis who is the son of Holocaust survivors and does not sympathize with any hate groups is determined to defend his clients’ First Amendment rights. But at what cost? How will the police maintain public order? How many lives are at stake? With the date of the parade looming before her, Jessie intensifies her investigation and starts to examine her own beliefs, her own prejudices, her own feelings towards a historical event that snuffed out the lives of millions of innocent people. Hate suddenly turns to homicide. As Jessie desperately searches for leads among extremists of all stripes, she’ll uncover revelation after revelation: about the case, about her city, about herself. Meanwhile, passions are rising. Violence threatens to erupt again. And the ‘Angel of Death‘ hovers nearby…

Blood Money

Caring and compassionate, LAPD homicide detective Jessica Drake isn’t about to write off the death of an elderly man found dead in a secluded area of Rancho Park as simply a heart attack. The nonresident guest at an old age home was in vigorous health, with plenty of friends…
and suddenly he’s mysteriously dead. Jessie suspects foul playIn search of what caused the old gentleman’s death, Jessie combs the records of local retirement homes and prods the memories of the residents. She discovers that the victim was the only person in his family to come out of the concentration camps alive and his demise is just one of a number of mysterious deaths among camp survivors. The possible connection to the Holocaust is a particularly heart wrenching irony to Jessie, who has just recently learned of her own link to the historic atrocity. Now she’s just determined to follow a twisted trail of decades old deceit to catch a killer…
and spare the survivors of the death camps from the treachery of a modern day maniac. Caring and compassionate, LAPD homicide detective Jessica Drake isn’t about to write off the death of an elderly man found dead in a secluded area of Rancho Park as simply a heart attack. The nonresident guest at an old age home was in vigorous health, with plenty of friends…
and suddenly he’s mysteriously dead. Jessie suspects foul play. In search of what caused the old gentleman’s death, Jessie combs the records of local retirement homes and prods the memories of the residents. She discovers that the victim was the only person in his family to come out of the concentration camps alive and his demise is just one of a number of mysterious deaths among camp survivors. The possible connection to the Holocaust is a particularly heart wrenching irony to Jessie, who has just recently learned of her own link to the historic atrocity. Now she’s determined to follow a twisted trail of decades old deceit to catch a killer…
and spare the survivors of the death camps from the treachery of a modern day maniac. Caring and compassionate, LAPD homicide detective Jessica Drake isn’t about to write off the death of an elderly man found dead in a secluded area of Rancho Park as simply a heart attack. The nonresident guest at an old age home was in vigorous health, with plenty of friends…
and suddenly he’s mysteriously dead. Jessie suspects foul play. In search of what caused the old gentleman’s death, Jessie combs the records of local retirement homes and prods the memories of the residents. She discovers that the victim was the only person in his family to come out of the concentration camps alive and his demise is just one of a number of mysterious deaths among camp survivors. The possible connection to the Holocaust is a particularly heart wrenching irony to Jessie, who has just recently learned of her own link to the historic atrocity. Now she’s determined to follow a twisted trail of decades old deceit to catch a killer…
and spare the survivors of the death camps from the treachery of a modern day maniac.

Dead Air

The tough talk and no nonsense advice that Dr. Renee Altman dispenses on air has won the controversial radio personality many admirers but few friends. Once LAPD Homicide Detective Jessie Drake could count herself among the latter, but that was back in high school. Now the famous ‘Dr. Renee’ is standing on Jessie’s doorstep desperate, frightened, allegedly being persecuted by an unseen stalker, and seeking help. But a favor for an old friend becomes grisly professional business when the talk radio host’s six year old daughter is kidnapped and her nanny is brutally slain. A helpless child has become the pawn of a ruthless killer who uses Renee Altman’s own radio program to send shockwaves through a horrified city. Under the hot glare of media scrutiny, Jessie Drake must somehow beat a psychopath at his own game. Because a maniac sworn to vengeance who has already spilled human blood has nothing more to lose.

Shadows of Sin

One of the ‘top ten women who write superior crime fiction’ Charles Champlin, mystery reviewer for the Los Angeles Times, Rochelle Krich propels her exceptional sleuth, LAPD homicide detective Jessie Drake, into a deadly maze of rage, revenge, and moral complexities in what is the award winning author’s most gripping and provocative novel to date. At first glance it appears to be a random multiple murder a prominent plastic surgeon and his nurse and receptionist shot dead in their plush Century City office. But to Jessie Drake, the savage nature of Dr. Ronald Bushnell’s fatal wounds suggests a crime of intense passion…
and bitter retribution. Following her suspicions, the conscience driven detective takes her investigation to the core of the seemingly harmonious family life of the slain surgeon. On the surface, Bushnell had everything: respect, money, a palatial home, a loving wife and daughter. But there is a joker in the deck, Bushnell’s foster son, Ethan Meissner a troubled young loner with dark periods in his history. And the boy hasn’t been seen since the murders. Ethan’s unexplained disappearance suggests that the runaway knows something; he may be a material witness in a triple homicide or a premeditated killer…
or another victim. The search for the missing teenager takes Jessie across many volatile borders those between nations, between families, and the razor thin one that separates love from hatred. But the truth lies somewhere in a harrowing past of tainted blood and horrific personal tragedy. The deeper Jessie ventures into this shadow world of cruelty and secrets, the more she is haunted by the echoes of a lost soul’s unanswered cry for help…
and by the most heinous crime of all, in which the sins of the guilty are visited on the innocent.

Blues in the Night

Sunday, July 13. 1:46 A.M. Near Lookout Mountain and Laurel Canyon. An unidentified woman in her twenties, wearing a nightgown, was the victim of a hit and run accident that left her unconscious and seriously injured. There were no witnesses. So reads the report on the accident off Mulholland Drive in Molly Blume’s Crime Sheet column for a weekly Los Angeles tabloid. Just another small L.A. tragedy, soon forgotten. But the image of the young woman in her nightgown stumbling along a dark, winding road is one Molly, a freelance true crime writer, cannot shake. In fact, it draws her to a bedside in intensive care, where the victim whispers to her three names: Robbie, Max, and Nina. It s not a smoking gun, but is sufficient to reinforce Molly s gut instinct that there are sinister circumstances behind the assault on Lenore Saunders. With fearless conviction, Molly asks questions that nobody including Lenore s mom, her ex husband, her shrink, or even Molly s L.A.P.D. buddy, Detective Connors wants to answer. Nevertheless, the astute Molly discovers Lenore lived a fractured life, so different from Molly s own secure and loving Orthodox Jewish background. And as a chilling picture of the unfortunate woman begins to take shape, the menace of murders past and present stirs and quickens. In her first Molly Blume novel, award winning novelist Rochelle Krich tells a story in the tradition of the great L.A. mysteries of the past and introduces an investigator who is pure gold. Twentysomething divorcee Molly Blume, with her deep faith, short skirts, and nose for the truth, is a hero*ine to cherish. From the Hardcover edition.

Dream House

Dream HouseA Novel of SuspenseRochelle KrichNational bestselling author of Blues in the NightFriday, October 31. 9:37 P.M., 100 block of South Martel. A vandal threw a pumpkin through the front window of a house and several eggs at the front door. The police report read like just another Halloween prank a nasty, petty act. But the attack is one in a recent spate of increasingly violent vandalisms targeting residents who have paid millions of dollars for their dream homes in the ritziest enclaves of Los Angeles. Residents are already seething, hotly divided about the growing number of Historical Architectural Restoration and Preservation HARP boards that prevent homeowners from remodeling their expensive real estate, forcing them to preserve the traditional integrity of neighborhoods where Hollywood legends once lived. So impassioned are pro and anti HARP forces that Crime Sheet columnist Molly Blume suspects that members from both side of the debate may perpetrating the vandalism that claims new victims almost daily. But the arson that destroys an empty house on Fuller Street doesn t fit the pattern. This beautiful property belongs to Margaret Reston and her husband, Hank; and the sick old man who dies when it burns is Margaret’s father. Margaret herself has disappeared. She was last seen working in her garden five months ago and although traces of her blood were found in her car, the police have no idea what has happened to the missing woman. This intrigue all makes good copy for hard hitting newshound Molly. Almost in love again with the high school sweetheart who dumped her and is now a rabbi, Molly can t stop thinking about Margaret and Hank Reston and the old man whose life was tragically, though accidentally, cut short. But was it an accident? What has happened to Margaret Reston? Where does malice end and evil begin?In her second Molly Blume chiller, award winning novelist Rochelle Krich takes us right inside L.A. s most exclusive neighborhoods and into the elegant old houses whose wrought iron fences and barred windows offer scant protection from violence. Even in a Dream House, life can turn nightmarish in a heartbeat. Rochelle Krich is the author of many acclaimed novels of suspense, including Blues in the Night which introduced Molly Blume, Shadows of Sin, Dead Air, Blood Money, and Fertile Ground. An Anthony Award winner for her debut novel, Where s Mommy Now? which was adapted as the TV movie Perfect Alibi, Ms. Krich now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their children…
. Molly Blume is a fresh new presence on the mystery scene…
. Smart, resourceful, and curious not much escapes her. SUE GRAFTON One of America s finest suspense novelists. CAROLYN HART Molly investigates with both thoroughness and compassion, making this new sleuth worth her salt. The New York Times Book Review An authentic, first rate book…
that demonstrates once again why she has won for herself an important place in the pantheon of outstanding mystery writers. Jerusalem Post Smoothly written…
A charming new series…
Skillfully plotted, with a satisfying solution. Milwaukee Journal An unqualified winner. Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine

Grave Endings

Tuesday, February 17. 11:40 a.m., Corner of Vermont Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. A robber approached the victim from behind and put a knife to her stomach…
. Stabbings, even fatal ones, are not uncommon in Los Angeles. But the stabbing death of Aggie Lasher a vibrant young woman dedicated to helping others and, it seemed, deeply loved by everyone who knew her was especially tragic. For almost six years she has been obsessed by the mystery of her best friend’s murder: If she had been with Aggie, would the killer have chosen another victim? Will the killer ever be caught?When Molly’s LAPD pal Detective Andy Connors shows her a locket found on the body of a dead man, suddenly the case seems solved. Molly had given that locket to Aggie. Still coiled inside it is the red thread good luck charm that Molly had brought back years ago from Rachel s Tomb in Bethlehem, a thread with the reputed mystical power to protect its wearer. The presumed murderer a good looking aspiring actor named Randy Creeley was found dead of an overdose in his shabby Hollywood apartment. But Molly has unanswered questions. And though she should be focused on her wedding, only weeks away, she is driven to find out more about Creeley; about his nervous sister, Trina; about his missing girlfriend, Doreen. About Aggie, who, it turns out, didn t tell her best friend everything. The more Molly discovers, the more she wonders: Was Aggie s life snuffed out so an addict could shoot up? Or has Creeley been framed? What if Aggie was deliberately murdered by someone else, someone who is ready to kill again to ensure that his motives stay buried with Aggie and Randy Creeley?Molly s search for the truth sends her scurrying for answers in an L.A. tourists seldom see. But closure is elusive, and seeking it can exact a stiff price sometimes even a life. Rochelle Krich s third Molly Blume mystery is irresistible: an inexorably compelling chiller. From the Hardcover edition.

Now You See Me…

For feisty Los Angeles crime reporter Molly Blume, life is good. She is newly married to the adoring and adorable Rabbi Zack, and her latest true crime book is a hot seller. When an overardent fan’s attentions arouse Molly s suspicion, however, her thoughts turn uneasily to stalkers. But the fan, Reuben Jastrow, swears that he desperately needs Molly s help in finding his eighteen year old daughter, Hadassah, who has run away from home to be with a man she met on the Internet. Molly hesitantly agrees and immediately has regrets. For Reuben hasn t told her the whole truth. The more Molly looks for clues to the missing girl s fate, the more she wonders: Is Hadassah a random victim of a predator, or is the girl a pawn in a scheme of revenge against her family? It s a long, deadly path that stretches before Molly, a path mined with hidden passions and festering secrets. And it ends with a final twist and an unnerving truth: What we don t see can lead to danger…
and tragedy. The Mystery Woman who can do it all…
Krich knows how to make conflicts between good and evil juicy. Los Angeles Times

Speak No Evil

When four of her colleagues are found shot to death, all of whom had previously defended men accused of rape and won young LA attorney Debra Laslow finds herself both a prime suspect in the killings and a possible target, since she is now defending a man on trial for rape.

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