Cape Weathers Investigation Books In Publication Order
- Stealing the Dragon (2007)
- Beating the Babushka (2007)
- Greasing the Piñata (2008)
- Boxing the Octopus (2019)
Sam McGowan Books In Publication Order
- Jump (2008)
Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order
- Suspension of Disbelief (2009)
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Stealing the Dragon
In the midst of a cutthroat mayoral election, a ship smuggling Chinese refugees runs aground on Alcatraz. With the entire crew murdered, the crime screams professional assassin. Is it a coincidence that Cape Weather’s friend Sally trained to be a deadly force by a Chinese secret society has disappeared? The private investigator knows little about Sally’s murky history as an orphan in Hong Kong. But she has saved his butt umpteen times, and Cape wants to return the favor. With help from a neurotic cop, a drug lord, and an autistic computer genius, he scours the darkest corners of San Francisco’s Chinatown searching for the ‘snakehead’ the leader of the human smuggling ring that will lead him to Sally. From the ancient Triads of Hong Kong to Chinatown’s underground, this electrifying thriller penetrates the sinister and fascinating world of organized crime.
Beating the Babushka
A movie producer hurtles to his death from the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, an apparent suicide that shocks the film community and puts a two hundred million dollar production in jeopardy. His colleague, Grace, doesn’t believe it was suicide and turns to private detec tive Cape Weathers to find the truth. To solve the case, Cape and his friend Sally an assassin raised by the Triads take on the Russian mob, a major movie studio, and a recalcitrant police department by enlisting the help of rogue cops, computer hackers, and an investigative journalist who just doesn’t give a damn. But with a sniper on their trail, the challenge will be staying alive long enough to find out the truth. Praise for Stealing the Dragon ‘…
Maleeny gives readers a fresh and fast take that enthralls.’ Crimespree ‘Tough, original, compelling a perfect thriller debut.’ Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author of The Hard Way
Greasing the Piñata
A former U.S. Senator vanishes days after his son goes missing. When theyare both found dead on a golf course, body parts missing, in Mexico, the Senatoras estranged daughter Rebecca resolves to discover what happened. Private investigator Cape Weathers doesnat really want the case. He canat stand politicians and doesnat know the terrain. But when it looks like the daughter may become the next victim, Cape crosses the border looking for answers. Cape asks his deadly companion Sally, trained by the Hong Kong Triads, to watch his back as he stumbles onto a conspiracy that leads from corporate boardrooms in San Francisco to strongholds in Mexico. Together they confront a killer determined to bury the past along with anyone trying to dig it up. Miles away from home and nowhere near finding the answers, Cape manages to get kidnapped, steal from the mob, piss off the DEA, alienate the local police, confound a computer genius, and somehow lose the client heas been protecting all along. Greasing the PiAata is a novel about family, politics, and the devastating effects of tequila on a private detectiveas investigative abilities. It is the third novel in the Cape Weathers series, and the first to be published in hardcover by Poisoned Pen Press.
Jump
When the most hated landlord in San Francisco takes an unexpected jump off the roof of his own building, it isnat too hard to find suspects. But the police want to call it a suicide, since both the Mayor and press are complaining about the dismal closure rate for homicide investigations. Call it a suicide and no one has to solve the case. But ex cop Sam McGowan knows it was murder. He also knows that anyone living on the top floor of the building should be a suspect, including himself. So Sam decides to get to know his neighbors:A lonely jazz singer more than willing to confess to any crime, past or present;Two young women paying for graduate school by operating a website that reveals a lot more than their SAT scores; The B movie producer with a swollen prostate and shrinking bank balance; And the brothers at the end of the hall, who just quit their day jobs to sell mari*juana for the Mexican mob. The only thing they have in common is a general agree ment that their dead landlord got what he deserved and that one of them is probably responsible. As more bodies surface and alliances shift, Sam finds himself jumping back and forth between his old life as a cop and his new one as a murder suspect, unable to decide where he really belongs.
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