Jake Scarne, a rogue cop who turns private eye

In Sound of Blood, Scarne is sent to Florida by a grieving father to uncover the truth about his son’s death. Bodies pile up from coast to coast, as Scarne finds himself in the crosshairs of a powerful media baron, vicious mobsters, various sets of homicide cops, the F.B.I. – and a beautiful woman that men hate to love, but do.

In Madman's Thirst, Scarne is in a funk. Haunted by his last case, he’s been letting himself go, physically and mentally, content to chase errant husbands and cash easy paychecks. Then his best friend asks for a favor he can’t refuse. Seeking personal and professional redemption, Scarne sets out to find out who is behind the rape and murder of young school girl.

Alton Rhode, caught off balance by war and murder

Rhode, while recovering from war wounds, is attending to the minutia of his life while setting up his new one-man detective agency. With the paint still wet on the walls, a beautiful woman walks in the door. She wants Rhode to find the bank-embezzler lover who fathered her daughter and disappeared 14 years earlier. The man holds the key to saving the child's life. In Capriati's Blood, Rhode’s search takes him from a college campus to a nursing home to a Florida orange grove. And into the heart of darkness.