Jeri Howard Books in Order

Oakland private investigator Jeri Howard is hired to find a wife who disappeared after leaving her child with relatives. What seems a straightforward missing-person case leads into concealed identities and old family crimes that still carry deadly consequences.

Jeri Howard investigates an abusive naval petty officer’s finances for his estranged wife, who suspects hidden money. When the husband is killed, her client becomes a prime suspect, but his vicious secrets have left many others with motives.

A Filipino-American history professor is murdered, and Jeri Howard’s father discovers the body at their university. Months later, a woman claiming to be the professor’s widow arrives demanding his papers, drawing Jeri into an investigation of his past.

Jeri Howard’s Monterey vacation becomes a tangle of investigations when someone mutilates pelicans and sabotages her mother’s restaurant. Her cousin Bobby is suspected of killing his girlfriend, turning a family visit into a search for a murderer.

A murdered young runaway is found at a Berkeley construction site, while her two-year-old daughter has vanished among the homeless. Private investigator Jeri Howard searches the cold, rainy streets, racing to find the child before further harm occurs.

Students sharing a Berkeley house face vandalism, threatening calls, and escalating violence, including Jeri Howard’s former stepdaughter. As Jeri investigates who is terrorizing them, connections to an earlier case suggest that danger may already have turned deadly.

Jeri Howard searches for a teenage girl whose fascination with her grandmother’s escape from Nazi persecution has taken a dangerous turn. In California, the girl’s investigation draws the attention of neo-Nazis, putting her directly in their sights.

A paralegal dies shortly before revealing a food-processing company’s cover-up to Jeri Howard. Suspecting murder, Jeri goes undercover at the firm, where efforts to conceal a public health danger make uncovering the truth increasingly hazardous.

At Edgewater Downs, Jeri Howard investigates threatening calls directed at horse owner and trainer Molly Torrance. A fired jockey, suspicious betting, and inexplicable racing losses complicate the case before murder exposes the danger beneath the track’s glamorous surface.

A chance encounter in a memorabilia shop leads Jeri Howard into her grandmother’s Hollywood past and an unsolved 1942 murder. As she investigates the former actress’s possible involvement, valuable movie posters become linked to present-day killings.

Jeri Howard searches Sonoma County for her missing brother Brian, uncovering troubles in his marriage and work. A body found on a boat alongside his medical bracelet raises police suspicions, leaving her racing a trail that grows colder.

When former coworker Cal Brady’s body washes ashore in Oakland, Jeri Howard doubts his death was accidental. Her investigation of the construction-site security guard leads into waterfront redevelopment, where lucrative projects create opportunities for greed and crime.

Vacationing in New Orleans, Jeri Howard agrees to look for a friend’s sister who has disappeared with a volatile musician. The search takes her through local clubs and back to California, where the boyfriend’s violence creates increasing danger.

Oakland investigator Jeri Howard discovers human bones inside a battered footlocker hidden in a storeroom. Identifying the dead draws her into secrets stretching back decades, and someone determined to preserve those secrets is prepared to kill again.