Michael Zinn Lewin Books in Order

Overnight Indianapolis police lieutenant Leroy Powder faces the usual stream of crimes until an informant reports a mutilated body. With identification nearly impossible, Powder must hunt a killer while proving he has not lost his edge.

Indianapolis PI Albert Samson is hired by a teenager who wants to identify her biological father after a blood-type discovery. His search through a wealthy family's past uncovers old lies, buried tensions, and a dangerous reason to keep the truth hidden.

Albert Samson investigates after a Vietnam veteran is charged with manslaughter. His client's motives are uneasy from the start, and Samson's questions lead into blackmail, trauma, and a case where the obvious answer is far from safe.

A struggling playwright asks Albert Samson to confront the Broadway producer who stole his work. But the client's story quickly falls apart, leaving Samson to untangle revenge, deception, and a growing threat to his own life.

A political thriller adapted from the screenplay, this novel follows an Arab leader whose plans for a new Middle Eastern economic alliance make him a target. International interests, rival powers, and assassination threats close in around him.

A woman hires Albert Samson to learn why she cannot visit her brother, a chemist left comatose after a laboratory explosion. The inquiry pulls Samson toward a hospital, a pharmaceutical company, the FBI, and dangerous corporate secrets.

A mystery writer finds himself drawn into a real-life puzzle, where the habits of invention are no substitute for staying alive. The line between observing crime and becoming involved in it grows dangerously thin.

Nearly broke and facing eviction, Albert Samson heads to southern Indiana to find a missing woman. What begins as a search for Priscilla becomes a knot of relationships, murder, and escalating threats against the detective himself.

Lt. Leroy Powder is reassigned to Indianapolis's Missing Persons Bureau and paired with Sgt. Carollee Fleetwood. As they work several unsettling disappearances, their rough partnership is tested by departmental friction, personal trouble, and stubbornly resistant clues.

When a bank executive's wife cannot obtain a passport because her birth certificate is false, Albert Samson investigates her past. A second case and an old society murder draw him into a carefully hidden history of identity and vengeance.

The unpopular but capable Lt. Leroy Powder hunts a killer targeting paraplegics while trying to protect a key witness. His missing-persons work turns into a high-pressure case where the witness may be in danger, or may take the blame.

Indianapolis social worker Adele Buffington faces a murdered man, a missing mother and children, and threats aimed at social workers. With Albert Samson and Leroy Powder nearby, Adele follows the case toward a dangerous baby-brokering operation.

Indianapolis is rattled by environmental activists threatening bombs when Albert Samson takes a case involving a woman and a missing explosive. Hired from more than one direction, he risks his license and life to stop a violent campaign.

Homeless Indianapolis hustler Jan Moro sees a business opportunity, then stumbles onto evidence of puppy abuse connected to a powerful local figure. His effort to do the right thing drags him into a much more dangerous fight.

In Bath, the Lunghi family's detective agency takes on a worried wife, a suspicious model, and other seemingly unrelated problems. As the household investigates, everyday domestic clues lead toward surveillance, secrets, and a vicious murder.

In the nineteenth century, a young woman sets out to find the person responsible for her best friend's death. Her search carries her from the United States to England, where determination and grief keep pushing her forward.

The Lunghi family detective agency returns to its busy Bath routine, where every relative has a role and an opinion. Domestic crosscurrents, close observation, and unexpected danger make the investigation as much a family affair as a professional one.

Albert Samson finally gets his private investigator's license restored and quickly lands two cases. Returning to work should be a relief, but the new investigations bring old pressures and remind him that detective work never stays simple.

A hapless man becomes tangled in murder and danger, finding that an ordinary life can become precarious very quickly. As events close in, he must understand what is happening before someone else decides his fate.

This collection brings together three shorter cases featuring the Lunghis, Bath's multigenerational family of private detectives. Meals, chance observations, and the different skills of the household help turn small puzzles into satisfying investigations.

The Lunghis continue running their Bath detective agency from the center of a lively, multigenerational household. Ordinary errands, family arguments, and sharp observation all become part of a mystery with consequences beyond the family's front door.

God takes stock of humanity in this comic, skeptical fantasy. Descending to a changed modern world, the creator tries to understand the people made in his image, and finds their habits, relationships, and choices deeply confusing.