Milan Jacovich Books in Order

Milan gets a late-night call from a powerful ad executive asking for bodyguard help, but when he arrives the man is gone. The search for the missing client becomes his first trip through Cleveland's rich enclaves, mean streets, and mob shadows.

Milan is hired to find the swindler behind a low-rent ad scam, but the small money does not match the rising body count. Mob interest in the scheme means he is in deeper trouble than he expected.

A worried father asks Milan to find out whether his son is dealing drugs, and loyalty makes it hard to refuse. The search leads into Cleveland's drug trade, brushes up against the mob, and ends in brutal murder.

An elderly Serbian immigrant disappears, and Milan agrees to look for him despite long-standing ethnic tensions in the community. Threats against a reporter and old hatreds push the case toward violence.

Because he owes a favor to mobster Victor Gaimari, Milan ends up watching over a suburban mayoral election. Before long he realizes the race is tied to bigger stakes than city hall politics, and the weather is not the only thing turning ugly.

A wealthy young heiress hires Milan to find an artist boyfriend who vanished with her money. What looks like a small embarrassment soon opens into the rougher side of the art world, where truth and beauty do not travel together.

A television anchor is murdered, and Milan is asked to help clear the executive who was secretly involved with her. The case takes him inside a Cleveland TV station full of ambition, scandal, and dangerous lies.

A young Cleveland lawyer is murdered on a Caribbean island, and his sister hires Milan to learn what the local police cannot. The trail runs from a beachside killing back to Cleveland, where the victim left plenty of loose ends behind.

Milan is hired to babysit a spoiled Hollywood star during a film shoot in Cleveland. He quits in disgust, only to be dragged back in when the actor is murdered and the production turns into a magnet for trouble.

A freshman is publicly accused of date rape by an anonymous campus group, and his former principal asks Milan to find out what really happened. The investigation turns ugly fast and ends in murder.

Milan is rattled when an elderly Native American man spends hours watching his apartment, then turns up murdered the next day. A second case involving a toy company accountant and a local mobster soon collides with the first.

When a young executive's body is found below the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, the police call it suicide. Her father is not convinced, and Milan's search through friends, lovers, and online secrets uncovers a much darker crime.

A wealthy judge hires Milan after an Irish con man plays on her community ties and disappears. Then the swindler turns up dead, and Milan has to untangle local loyalties, old flames, and an Irish godfather with IRA connections.

Milan reluctantly goes to his fortieth high school reunion and winds up with a murder on his hands. Investigating old classmates means digging into buried grudges, fresh lies, and more than one life that did not turn out as advertised.

A routine missing-person case turns nasty when Milan finds a stash of voyeuristic videos and a possible link to organized crime. It is also the book that brings Kevin O'Bannion into Milan's world, for better and worse.

A flashy Cleveland councilman says someone is trying to kill him and hires Milan to find out who. What looks like a grubby political job soon turns into a deeper investigation into bribes, sex, and city hall corruption.

The sudden death of a wealthy client sends Milan and K.O. behind the scenes at a harness racing track. Rivalries, money, and possible mob ties make the suspect list long, and the danger grows with every lap.

When Tobe Blaine is sent to investigate a pair of murders in rural Ashtabula County, Milan tags along and quickly finds a town that does not welcome outsiders. Local prejudice, buried secrets, and a nearby prison make the case far uglier than it first appears.

Milan and K.O. are hired to help with security at a big motivational speakers convention in downtown Cleveland. When the event's biggest star is found murdered, Milan has to sort through egos, grudges, and one very public mess.