Brent Umber Books in Order

Private investigator Brent Umber interrupts his vacation to investigate a sudden death at the Brewster family’s grand ancestral home. As he persuades relatives, friends and servants to talk, shifting accounts complicate the question of murder or suicide.

Private investigator Brent Umber welcomes an invitation to help police solve a vineyard owner’s murder. With no obvious motive and few useful clues, he must draw out the people around the victim to discover why she was killed in broad daylight.

A man is shot during dinner at an expensive restaurant, yet apparently no one sees the killer. Private investigator Brent Umber, present on a date, takes on the puzzling case while his own romantic and domestic life grows complicated.

Brent Umber investigates an accusation that a detective killed a fellow officer he once trained. With few clues and uncertain suspects, Brent faces a difficult search for the truth behind a crime that threatens confidence in the investigators themselves.

Brent Umber books a skiing holiday after growing restless without a murder case. At Ghost Hawk Ridge, a young ski patrol worker’s apparently accidental death draws him back into investigation, where hidden motives and uncertain allies make an outsider vulnerable.

Asked to review an almost completed murder investigation, Brent Umber has only days to prevent a possible wrongful arrest. Exploring the hidden sides of admired victim Chris Kerr draws him into unfamiliar territory, where murder is only one of the crimes concealed.