Timothy Cone Books in Order

The Timothy Cone books take Sanders's fascination with crime and move it into the boardrooms and back alleys of 1980s Wall Street. Timothy Cone is a rumpled investigator at Haldering and Company, a firm that sells financial intelligence to banks, brokers, and corporate clients who suspect something is off.

Cone lives in a shabby loft with a couple of cats, dresses badly, and has little patience for polish, but he has a sharp nose for fraud. In The Timothy Files three linked novellas send him after a real estate conglomerate that may be killing to protect a check kiting scam, a fertility clinic whose research hides something far uglier, and an investment house tied up with drug money and shell companies.

Timothy's Game returns to the same world with new cases built around insider trading, hostile takeovers, and a suspiciously hot Chinese food stock. Cone wades into corporate espionage, gang violence, and elaborate financial cons, helped and occasionally hindered by his tough, smart boss and lover, Samantha Whatley.

Unlike a traditional mystery series in which one novel leads directly to the next, each Timothy Cone story stands on its own. What connects them is Cone's battered sense of justice, his belief that white collar crime ruins lives just as surely as a gun on the street, and his willingness to push back even when it puts him in a sniper's sights.

Readers who enjoy fast moving plots, market jargon, and a view of New York that runs from dingy diners to gleaming office towers will find these books an interesting bridge between classic hardboiled fiction and more modern financial thrillers.