Michael Kelly Series (unabridged)

From the co-creator and executive producer of the television show Cold Case Files, comes a fast-paced, stylish murder mystery featuring a tough-talking Irish cop turned private investigator, who does for the city of Chicago what Elmore Leonard did for Detroit and Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles.

Michael Kelly, a tough-talking Irish cop turned private investigator, is hired by an ex-flame to tail her abusive husband. But what looked like a bread-and-butter domestic dispute turns out to be more than he bargained for. The tail leads him to an old house on Chicago’s North Side.

Michael Kelly is back in another sizzling murder mystery that pits him against a merciless sniper on the loose in Chicago's public transportation system. After witnessing a shooting on an L platform - and receiving a phone call from the killer himself - Kelly is drawn toward a murderer with an unnerving link to his own past, to a crime he witnessed as a child, and to the consequences it had on his relationship with his father, a subject Kelly would prefer to leave unexamined.

Chicago: A biological weapon is set off in the subway and quickly spreads through the city's West Side. Michael Kelly, PI, goes into the subway with a team trained in microbial forensics (essentially the next generation of CSI) and gets a hard lesson in biological warfare. Meanwhile, the pathogen spreads. The government is forced to quarantine sections of the city. Kelly, of course, is in the middle of it, tracking down the bad guys while his city teeters on the precipice.

It's been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago, moments after being sentenced to 38 years in prison on corruption charges. PI Michael Kelly's investigation begins with Perry's wife, Marie. As he hunts for her husband, Kelly begins to unwind Marie Perry's past. What he finds is a woman who is even more intriguing than her husband, with her own deeply complicated reasons for standing by him.