Shelley Singer Books in Order

A community of women survives society's collapse by establishing an independent village and discovering reproduction without men. The arrival of two outsiders from a patriarchal culture unsettles their protected world, raising questions of love, conflict, and change.

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.

History teacher Barrett Lake becomes involved when one of her students disappears. Teaming up with an experienced private investigator, she learns to question reluctant witnesses and follow clues while searching for the missing young woman.

Teacher and investigator Barrett Lake searches for a kidnapped Russian immigrant boy whose captor bears a mysterious grudge against his parents. Her inquiry moves through a varied circle of suspects as the child's danger mounts.

Barrett Lake finds a missing teenager hiding in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, only to discover her involvement in a shelter worker's murder. The teacher and investigator pursues the case to uncover what happened and protect Sara.

A runaway boy is murdered shortly after a newspaper interviews him about street life and drug dealers. Barrett Lake investigates as accusations and threatening letters target the paper, and the killer's violence spreads toward her.

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.

In a fragmented future ravaged by biological warfare, mercenary Rica Marin works undercover as a casino singer. Her assignment to spy on a powerful clan forces her to question whom she can trust amid competing factions.

Mercenary Rica Marin takes a job at the Blackjack Casino in a world divided into small city-states after biological warfare. As rival clans maneuver for power, an expanding neighboring state's ambitions threaten to ignite another war.

Mercenary Rica Marin discovers an invading army hidden inside supposedly ruined Reno. Divided between her home and her employer, she tries to unite threatened western states before mistrust and competing loyalties leave them vulnerable to attack.