Jake Samson Mystery Books in Order

Former Chicago cop Jake Samson accepts a Berkeley professor's offer to investigate his wife's murder. With his friend Rosie, he follows connections between politics, money, and extremist activity through the Bay Area's competing social worlds.

Jake Samson and Rosie investigate a murder after a friend asks them to help an accused relative. Suspects include executives at a dubious correspondence school, the victim's fractured family, and eccentric neighbors in rural Marin County.

Jake Samson is hired to locate a cult leader who vanished with a devotee and a large sum of cash. With Rosie, he follows a trail through California that grows more dangerous when a body appears.

Jake Samson and Rosie investigate a California sperm bank burglary whose stolen samples were dumped into the ocean. A clerk's suspicious death broadens their inquiry beyond vandalism and religious motives into the coastal town's hidden relationships.

When a charismatic California gubernatorial candidate is found hanging in his aide's backyard, police suspect suicide. Jake Samson accepts the aide's request to investigate, entering a dangerous world of campaign maneuvering and concealed personal connections.

Jewish investigator Jake Samson infiltrates a Marin County neo-Nazi group to help a friend's goddaughter and her frightened boyfriend. Suspected murders and extremist plots make the assignment increasingly dangerous as he tries to uncover the truth.