THE LAST WITNESS
For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, investigating a young
woman's murder in a Society Hill home invasion uncovers an ugly
underworld--that of Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob. Foreign
girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of
them are dying or just disappearing. The trail leads right to
Philadelphia. Teenage American girls lured from local foster homes have
vanished. And the lone living witness has gone into hiding. He knows
it's got to be connected. For Payne, finding that last witness is
absolutely critical--before the Russians, the cartels, or anyone else
gets to her first.
DEADLY ASSETS
In Philadelphia homicide is at an all-time high. With each violent
crime, tension builds between the police department, the mayor's office,
and the Citizens Police Oversight Committee. The most vocal activist
places the blame squarely on Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne. Now Payne
must navigate death threats and misdirected public outrage to follow a
strange pattern in seemingly unrelated killings. Ordered to stay out of
the line of fire, he struggles to solve the murder of a reporter who was
just as unwilling as Payne himself to let death threats keep him from
his job. As Sergeant Payne looks for justice, journalist Mickey O'Hara
looks to finish the story where his fellow reporter left off. Both men
know that they cannot back down, though this may be the end of their
reputations, their work, and even their lives.
BROKEN TRUST
Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne is beginning to think nothing can shock
him--until the case of a young socialite's death lands on his desk. The
Camilla Rose Morgan he'd known for years was beautiful and brilliant,
juggling charity fund-raisers while working toward the MBA that would
let her take her place in the family's multibillion-dollar company. How
was it possible that she'd jumped from the balcony of her penthouse? Her
brother tells Payne she'd been battling a lifetime of mental demons, and
there is plenty of evidence to support what he says, but something just
doesn't sit right. The more Payne digs, the more complications he
discovers, and when someone slips him copies of trust fund papers that
Camilla Rose was fighting to have nullified just before her death, an
even darker picture begins to emerge. Reputations and lives are on the
line. If he takes one step wrong, his own life may be among them.
