Erin O'Reilly Mysteries

Erin learned a lot from her partner: stay alert, follow your nose, and once you've got your teeth in them, never let go. It's tough working nights with the NYPD. The crime rate is high, the hours are terrible and forget about personal life. So when Officer O'Reilly and her K-9 Rolf switch over to the day shift, things are looking up. She's even able to find time for a new boyfriend. But when the theft of a priceless painting from the Queens Museum leaves a fellow police officer dead, Erin and her four-legged partner find themselves dealing with dangerous criminals, sleazy art dealers, and obstructive detectives in a race to capture the killers...and just maybe bring closure to a 75-year-old crime.

If it weren't for the Irish, New York wouldn't have a police force. On the other hand, it might not need one. Starting a new job is always stressful, even when bombs aren't involved. NYPD Officer Erin O'Reilly always wanted to be a detective. But on her first day wearing a gold shield, she finds herself investigating the explosive death of a small-time crook. She and her K-9 partner Rolf, together with her new squad of detectives, plunge into a world of gamblers, mobsters, and retired Irish Republican Army soldiers. It's an Irish cop against the Irish Mob in an intoxicating cocktail of murder, explosives, and betrayal. Can Erin and Rolf solve the killing before the bomber strikes again?

Not everyone who comes to America arrives by choice. A man and a teenage girl are found dead in a bullet-riddled motel room. Evidence points to the Russian Mafia. This isn't the first time Erin O'Reilly has tangled with organized crime, but she isn't prepared for the sheer brutality that's waiting for her. She and her trusty K-9 Rolf peel back the curtain on a seedy world of human trafficking and murder. In the streets of Little Odessa, Erin finds men who won't think twice about killing a woman. And this is one place where her gold detective shield will be no protection.

Two killers are prowling Manhattan. It's double duty for Erin and Rolf. A detective doesn't always have the luxury of giving all her attention to just one case. Erin O'Reilly and her K-9 partner, Rolf, have just started to sink their teeth into their latest investigation-a pair of Scottish gangsters, tortured, executed, and washed up on the rocks-when another mystery intrudes. A beautiful young woman is found dead in a locked hotel room, posed with a bouquet of fresh roses. It looks like a carefully staged suicide, but Erin isn't so sure. Soon she's juggling two cases at once, dodging bullets in a budding mob war while trying to nail down a cunning serial killer-one who just might be stalking her in return.

It's time to save Manhattan. An NYPD detective is always on duty. Erin O'Reilly is just settling down for a drink with her favorite gangster, celebrating her promotion to Detective Second Grade, when she hears the call every cop dreads: "Officer down." Soon Erin and her K-9 partner Rolf are chasing a cop-killer through-and beneath-New York City, racing to stop a lunatic's plan to tear the heart out of her city. To make matters worse, rumor has it there's a dirty cop in Erin's precinct, and the watchdogs at Internal Affairs are sniffing around Erin. Now she'll have to prove herself like never before as terrorists, assassins, and even allies stand in her way as she fights to save Manhattan.

A cop watches your hands; a magician shows you the wrong one. New Year's Eve is a time for new beginnings, but it's business as usual for Detective Erin O'Reilly and her K-9, Rolf. A midnight magic show on Broadway goes horribly wrong and a woman dies onstage. Is it a dreadful accident or an act of murderous sabotage? It's up to Erin to unravel the web of deception surrounding the death, even as her personal life threatens to spiral into chaos. She's caught the eye of Irish mobster Morton "Cars" Carlyle, and worse, she's beginning to like him back. It seems obvious that a relationship between a police officer and a criminal is a disaster waiting to happen. But as Erin is coming to discover, in the underworld and on the stage, things are rarely as they seem.

Too many sweets can cause tooth decay, cavities... and death. Valentine's Day with the NYPD: love is in the air, alimony payments are due, and a two-timing dentist is dead after a bad batch of holiday chocolate. As the detectives follow the chocolate trail back to its source, they uncover a rich assortment of suspects. Every step of the investigation reveals new motives, secrets, and agendas. Meanwhile, Detective Erin O'Reilly is trying to juggle the demands of the case with her ongoing relationship, but mixing business and pleasure can get complicated. Carlyle's Irish Mob colleagues have agendas of their own, and it'll take all of Erin's ingenuity and guts, along with her K-9 partner Rolf's trusty teeth, to chew their way to the heart of the mystery.

There's no line we won't cross for love. Detective Erin O'Reilly's mom always wanted her to find the right man. Instead, she found gentleman gangster Morton Carlyle. They've been helping each other survive New York's mean streets, while building a precarious relationship. But now, in the wake of a brutal mob hit, Erin and her K-9 partner Rolf are following a trail that implicates some of Carlyle's associates. Loyalties are strained to the breaking point as the bodies pile up in a burgeoning underworld war. Along the way, Erin and Carlyle confront impossible questions: How far will you go to protect those you love? Where do you draw the line? And if you have to betray someone, can you live with the consequences?

When you stop running, the past catches up with you. Detective Erin O'Reilly has never needed anyone to tell her she's tough. She's taken the worst New York City can throw at her, surviving gunfights, explosions, mobsters, and serial killers. But now, as she returns from a well-earned vacation, she finds there are some enemies that bullets can't touch. As she and her K-9 partner Rolf dive into their newest case - a military veteran and his wife murdered in a cold-blooded home invasion - Erin must confront the lingering legacy of trauma. Violence leaves scars on the flesh and the spirit of victims and perpetrators alike. Plagued by the aftershocks of what she's already survived, Erin will need to dig deep to struggle through new dangers. In the process she will tear open the wounds of broken men who are back from war but still fighting for their lives and their sanity. But she will soon find that the enemies on the outside are nothing compared to the toughest battle: the struggle for her own soul.

Jealousy breeds betrayal. A young woman is strangled in her bed. The door is smashed in and the apartment ransacked. Is this a robbery gone wrong? A random attack? A jealous lover? Or, a serial killer? It's up to Detective Erin O'Reilly, her K-9 Rolf, and the rest of her Major Crimes squad to find out the truth before anyone else dies. It's a simple case; or is it? Erin has been able to keep an uneasy balance between her personal and work lives. She's always known it was risky to let herself fall for a gangster. But now, she and her boyfriend, smooth-talking Irishman Morton Carlyle, find themselves drawn into a situation in which the only escape is for the two of them to choose a side and take a stand. Jealousy and betrayal are in the air. Who do you trust when your lover could be your enemy?

Trust can be an unaffordable luxury Detective Erin O'Reilly's world is in chaos. After a deadly ambush leaves her boyfriend fighting for his life, she finds herself distrusted by gangsters and fellow police officers alike. She's walking a fine line between cops and criminals, making her way into a dangerous undercover assignment. But no sooner has she started than a mobster is murdered. All the evidence points to one of Erin's few allies as the killer. Is he innocent? And if he is, can she prove it? The personal stakes have never been higher for Erin. With her K-9 partner Rolf the only one she can truly count on; she must find a path through a maze of half-truths and lies. In the underworld, perception is more important than reality in a lethal game where the prize is survival. Can Erin's wits and Rolf's instincts find the truth, or will they lose themselves in the labyrinth?

When the walls are glass, there's nowhere to hide. No sooner has Detective Erin O'Reilly moved in with her lover, gangster-turned-informant Morton Carlyle, than she gets a call about a body in a fancy downtown hotel. She's expecting a run-of-the-mill homicide, until she finds herself face-to-face with a beautiful young woman floating in the hotel's aquarium. Below the smooth surface of the luxury hotel, she finds a rotten world of bribes, voyeurism, coercion, and murder. Everybody has something to hide. Erin and her faithful K-9 Rolf will have to plunge into the murky depths to hook their quarry. Meanwhile, her personal life is on a fine line between survival and disaster. With all eyes on her, she will have to balance her family, her job, and her increasingly dangerous double life infiltrating the O'Malley mob. It's a deep dive into another New York murder. It'll take all Erin's grit to pull the truth out into the light.

Mobsters are like politicians, but more honest. A family trip to the museum goes sideways for Erin O'Reilly when a drugged, disoriented young woman stumbles into her on the street. The girl pleads for help and leads Erin to a parked car, where a man lies dead of an apparent drug overdose. A simple investigation quickly derails when the victim turns out to be the son of a prominent politician. The grieving father, locked in a tight reelection struggle, doesn't want to cooperate with the police. Soon Erin finds herself embroiled in political backstabbing and under-the-table dealing. To make matters worse, she's also running afoul of the darker politics of the New York underworld. While she and her lover Morton Carlyle slowly build their case against the Irish Mob, Erin confronts notorious Mafia underboss Vinnie "The Oil Man" Moreno, trying to find the links between the Mob's drug trade and a death that has begun to look more and more like an assassination. Erin will need her wits, street smarts, and her K-9 Rolf's sharp nose and relentless drive if she's going to unravel this conspiracy.

When it comes to love, everyone is compromised The murder scene looks depressingly ordinary at first; a home-invasion shooting of a real-estate agent. But Detective Erin O'Reilly has a nose for trouble, and this case smells all wrong. It's bad enough that the victim is tied to several sleazy property deals, but the worst of it is the sole witness to the crime; the dead man's girlfriend is Lieutenant Webb's ex-wife. Erin is no stranger to personal complications, but Webb's entanglements threaten to derail the whole investigation. With her commanding officer compromised, she and her K-9 Rolf will have to take the lead as they try to tear open a case involving street thugs, car thieves, a shady trainer of fighting dogs, and a paranoid white-collar guy in way over his head. It's shaping up to be an ugly dogfight in the streets of Brooklyn.

As long as you're breathing, you're still in the fight. Erin O'Reilly has been walking a dangerous line. In order to save her lover, smooth-talking gangster and former bomb-maker Morton Carlyle, she's been pretending to be a dirty cop. Her efforts have worked well-too well. Evan O'Malley and his underlings are convinced Erin is a criminal just like them. But that means, by the unwritten code of the underworld, she's now fair game. The O'Malley family is a tinderbox of hatred, resentment, and ambition. When a botched car bombing fails to kill O'Malley enforcer Mickey Connor, the blast sets the whole thing ablaze. The fearsome ex-boxer is sure Erin and her boyfriend are to blame, and he's not the kind of man to just take a punch. He hits back-hard. A serious error in judgment puts Erin's family on the line, pulling her loved ones into the ring. With more than one life hanging in the balance, Erin and her K-9 Rolf will need every bit of strength, skill, and courage to face down their deadliest opponent in a fight without rules or referee, where the winner will be the one left standing.

Justice is a matter of perspective. A pleasant Sunday dinner at an Italian restaurant takes a nasty turn for Detective Erin O'Reilly when the waiter slits the throat of a long-time patron. It's an open-and-shut case, but this murder is only the beginning. All across New York, captains in the Lucarelli Mafia family are being picked off in a series of carefully-orchestrated hits. Erin and her K-9 Rolf, still recovering from the trauma of their last case, jump back into the action. They'll need to stay sharp, especially since this isn't the first time they've tangled with the new boss of the Lucarellis, slick mafioso Vinnie Moreno. "The Oil Man" has a knack for slithering out of trouble, and he's not alone. The Mafia has deep roots in New York City, some of which have insinuated themselves into the ranks of law enforcement. Street justice is the rule of the day. Amid conflicting codes of honor, Erin finds herself questioning what justice really means, and whether it's possible to take down the bad guys while staying on the side of the angels. And in the end, as she runs out of options, Erin may be in the most danger from herself.

Who you are in the dark is who you really are A night you can't remember was either a really good night or a really bad one. When Erin O'Reilly wakes up in a notorious womanizer's apartment with a hangover, a new tattoo, and a gap in her memory, she has the feeling she had one of the bad ones. But it turns out New York had a worse night than she did. A power outage in a city is a dangerous thing, between looting, traffic accidents, and interrupted emergency services. Somebody has tampered with Manhattan's power grid, plunging the city into darkness. Is it a reckless prank gone wrong? Or something much worse? An unexpected lead arrives in the form of a young man who walks into the Major Crimes office and confesses to a brutal murder. There's only one problem; the NYPD can find no evidence the crime took place. Erin will have to rely on her K-9 Rolf to untangle the truth behind a psychopath's scheme. After all, a dog's nose doesn't need light to point the way.

A pretty face can get away with murder Ask any cop: domestic disturbances are the worst. Family squabbles are ugly, emotional, vicious fights that can turn deadly in a heartbeat. And when the family you're talking about is the Mafia, you'd better be ready for anything. The Lucarelli Family's new boss is consolidating his grip on the Mob. But not everyone is happy with Vinnie the Oil Man's leadership. A routine trip to court lands Detective Erin O'Reilly in the line of fire when gangsters start shooting right on the courthouse steps. To keep her promise to a dying man, Erin finds herself working with Witness Protection to guard a gangster's son. Meanwhile, when a young woman in Brooklyn is savagely murdered, evidence points to the victim's Mafia connections. Erin and her trusty K-9 Rolf sniff out a terrified witness who can point them to the killer… if the woman can be convinced to testify. Then Erin gets a job offer from the most unlikely source imaginable. All she has to do is silence the witness-permanently. Erin and her lover, reformed bomb-maker Morton Carlyle, will have to lay it all on the line in a desperate plan which could nail a murderer and save an innocent woman's life… or blow apart everything they've been trying to build.

Some scars run deeper than others Detective Erin O'Reilly is no stranger to close calls. She and her K-9 Rolf have dodged more than their share of blades, blasts, and bullets as they've taken on the worst New York City has to offer. But the last perp came a little too close, leaving one of Erin's fellow officers with a bullet-hole in his head and her own brain scrambled. Erin needs a break, but as her long-running infiltration of the O'Malley gang enters its final act, she can't afford to slack off. And that's not her only headache. When a former convict turned pizza deliveryman has his skull crushed in a college parking garage, an apparent mugging may be something much more sinister. Banging her head against one problem after another, Erin faces obstacles both on the street and in herself. She'll have to break through to the answers before her own brain lets her down.

You can't stop what you can't see Detective Erin O'Reilly is used to people trying to kill her. She's carefully established a false identity as a killer for the Mob, while secretly working to bring it down from within. She thinks she knows where the danger is. But now a fiendishly clever assassin is stalking the streets, targeting New York's judges. His weapons are lethal traps, designed to kill without warning and look like freak accidents. With one judge dead and another's life on the line, Erin and the rest of the Major Crimes squad race against time to track down a faceless, implacable murderer. To make matters worse, the mob war started by slick Mafioso Vinnie "The Oil Man" isn't over yet. Nobody holds onto a vendetta like the Mafia, and the blood hasn't stopped flowing. It's an electrifying case for Erin and her trusty K-9 Rolf as old enemies surface and loyalties clash, setting the stage for a shocking showdown in Manhattan's halls of justice.

When you fly high, you fall hard. A sleazy playboys private plane crashes in Brooklyn without a pilot, but with six kilos of cocaine on board. The playboys body washes up on the beach a few days later. Why did he jump out of his aircraft with a faulty parachute? It screams murder to Detective Erin OReilly. Meanwhile, the New York underworld is in turmoil after the death of a Mafia chieftain. The narcotics trade is up for grabs and everybody wants a piece of the action. To protect her undercover reputation, Erin will have to play every side against the others. Irish mobsters, Sicilians, Colombian cartel thugs, and a DEA agent with nothing to lose set the stage for a violent showdown. Erin, her K-9 Rolf, and the rest of her squad crash headlong into the volatile mix of cops and criminals, with explosive consequences. Erin is trying to chart a safe course to victory, but when the bad guys dont care if they die, she may have to choose between winning and survival.

Breaking through to the truth is deadly After months of nerve-wracking undercover work, Detective Erin O'Reilly is finally getting ready to bring down the Irish Mob. She has everything she needs: recordings, witnesses, and even the secret O'Malley ledger. She just needs to wait a few more weeks while the NYPD makes the final preparations to drop the hammer. If everything stays calm on the street, there's nothing to fear. But a routine construction job in Brooklyn shatters Erin's hopes for peace. When a work crew unearths a trio of decade-old bodies, a cold homicide case heats up fast. One of the dead men is a missing O'Malley associate linked to a long-ago turf war with crooked Teamsters. Erin and the Major Crimes squad start digging to find the truth, but unhinged gangster Kyle Finnegan wants answers too. Finnegan may be crazy, but he's also smart. He's more than willing to break anything and anyone to reach his goal. Erin and Rolf will have to smash through enemies and so-called allies alike to unearth a secret worth killing for.

The storm is here When a freak blizzard descends on Manhattan, Erin O'Reilly plans to take shelter and wait for it to blow over. But Irish mobster Evan O'Malley has other ideas. He's heard there's an undercover cop in his organization and wants Erin to unmask the infiltrator. Phil Stachowski, Erin's handler, is in danger, and he's gone missing. Erin finds herself plunging into the heart of the storm. She finds one dead cop and another clinging to life. And that's not the worst of it. The evidence points to a traitor in the NYPD, a cold-hearted killer who is willing to do anything to get what he wants-the truth about Erin herself. As the snow and the bodies pile up, Erin and her K-9 Rolf wade through a blinding, deadly flurry of suspicion and danger in which it may be impossible to tell friend from foe until it's too late. And in the end, the coldest choice will come down to Erin herself: what can she do when protecting her secret means betraying herself?

Some scars run deeper than others Detective Erin O'Reilly is no stranger to close calls. She and her K-9 Rolf have dodged more than their share of blades, blasts, and bullets as they've taken on the worst New York City has to offer. But the last perp came a little too close, leaving one of Erin's fellow officers with a bullet-hole in his head and her own brain scrambled. Erin needs a break, but as her long-running infiltration of the O'Malley gang enters its final act, she can't afford to slack off. And that's not her only headache. When a former convict turned pizza deliveryman has his skull crushed in a college parking garage, an apparent mugging may be something much more sinister. Banging her head against one problem after another, Erin faces obstacles both on the street and in herself. She'll have to break through to the answers before her own brain lets her down.

Every action has consequences When a young man is found outside a tattoo parlor with his skull crushed, not even the NYPD cares very much. The victim, a violent street thug and accused murderer, won't be missed. But after a second man is slain, Detective Erin O'Reilly becomes concerned. Dangerous men who have evaded the law are being killed by a shadowy avenger. Erin and her squad are faced with an unusual adversary; a killer determined to kill only bad guys. But when a man appoints himself judge, jury, and executioner, he has to be stopped. Erin, her K-9 Rolf, and the Major Crimes unit buckle down to the unpleasant task of bringing in a suspect who genuinely believes he's doing the right thing. Law, justice, and revenge collide as Erin's team track their quarry from the streets of Hell's Kitchen to the marble hallways of New York's courts. Erin will have to confront not only a self-righteous murderer, but her own sense of right and wrong. And meanwhile, in the background, an old enemy is maneuvering to bring his own brand of street justice crashing down on Erin herself.

USA TODAY Bestselling author Steven Henry Just as Detective Erin O'Reilly and her K-9 Rolf are finding their footing in the NYPD's Major Crimes squad, her world is upended. An unexpected attraction to a gentleman gangster leaves Erin caught between cops and criminals as her sense of duty clashes with her heart. Books 6-10 of the Erin O'Reilly Mysteries explore Erin's deepening connections to her fellow officers and to an underworld boss. She'll have to solve crimes while balancing her increasingly precarious personal life. "This series gets better with every book and I am in it for the long haul, so I hope Steven Henry has many more stories to share." (Amazon review of "First Love" by Gabi Rosetti) Book 6: Black Magic – The horrific on-stage death of a magician's assistant ushers Erin and Rolf into a shadowy world of deceit in which illusion and reality blend together. Book 7: Death by Chocolate – A poisoned box of Valentine candy leaves a toxic trail through New York, showing that love and death can be close bedfellows. Book 8: Massacre – The mass killing of a restaurant full of mobsters is only the opening shot of a full-on gang war which drags Erin and her squad into the crossfire. Book 9: Flashback – The burden of accumulated traumatic stress begins to weigh Erin down as she struggles with her own demons and the apparently senseless slaying of an Army veteran. Book 10: First Love – Erin's personal and professional double lives collide in a devastating clash of jealousy, desire, and murder.