One azure San Francisco summer afternoon, Viktor Rastovich, Russian immigrant, gangster, and single father of one, receives this phone call: “Daddy, I’ve been kidnapped.” The kidnapper’s demands are at first strange, at times even ridiculous....
San Francisco is shocked when the incinerated body of John “HammerJack” Marteau, the linebacker for the Fortyniners, is found in his burned out SUV at the bottom of a ravine. Andrew MacCrimmon has other problems -- he is recovering from a four mo...
After Andrew MacCrimmon’s wife, Karen, leaves him for the sixth and, apparently the last time, he takes up with Claudia Franchini, once known as “Abigail Durant,” a sensuous but shady woman pathologically obsessed with him since their fiery aff...
Thomas Waine has a job for Edward Riss: participate in the fake kidnapping of his wife, Solange. Waine plans to pay a huge ransom then declare bankruptcy thus avoiding taxes and massive debts. Andrew MacCrimmon becomes involved after meeting Riss’s...
When Dr. Andrew MacCrimmon surprises his wife, Karen, in bed with her personal trainer, he takes a long drive to clear his head. In the desert outside of Lone Pine, he is mugged and left to die. Bob Seibel, a bar owner, rescues him, and, in return, M...
Someone is killing San Francisco’s homeless at the rate of one a week. When one of them, a man Dr. Andrew MacCrimmon has befriended, is killed, he says enough is enough. Having nothing to lose -- his wife, Karen, has left him to live with a lawyer ...
A young woman shows up at Andrew MacCrimmon’s country home claiming her mother, a friend of his, has been murdered Then in rapid sequence he gets a letter saying his wife, Karen, has left him for another man; his friend Herb Dodds-Boughty is murder...
Adam Forsythe has been in prison for five-years for a murder Andrew MacCrimmon is convinced he didn’t commit. When MacCrimmon re-opens the case looking for the real murderer, Adam’s ex-wife, Lorie; his brother, Damian; even Adam himself, discoura...
After Dr. Andrew MacCrimmon exposes Aron Woode’s homicidal rampage and sends him into hiding Woode vows bloody revenge. When an innocent bystander is murdered with a straight razor, MacCrimmon realizes a family member of his was the actual target. ...
May 8th, Shelby Worthen dining with her husband, Stanley, goes to the restroom, but never returns. She disappears without a trace. Six weeks later, June 17th, a battered corpse wearing Shelby’s shirt and bracelet washes up on the rocks below Bodega...
Early one San Francisco September morning the 9-1-1 operator takes a call from Oliver Hamelin, an unscrupulous and widely reviled businessman, who claims he killed his wife. He had, but he won’t tell the police why. He eventually pleads guilty to s...
While dining on Valentine’s Day, a tall handsome man approaches Karen and MacCrimmon, introduces himself as Philippe Agneau de la Roche, the Count of Bassigny, and lavishly praises Karen’s beauty. Over the following weeks the count, enchanted by ...
When the mother of MacCrimmon’s infant daughter is drowned, it is rumored she was killed by members of her late husband’s cartel looking for his stash of gold. At first MacCrimmon is more concerned with his daughter, who has gone missing, taken b...
While on a Caribbean cruise Andrew MacCrimmon uncovers a plot by a man named Thomas Padgett to kill his wife and replace her with her twin sister. When MacCrimmon confronts him, Padgett, a giant of a man, carries him bodily to the rail and drops him ...
When Andrew MacCrimmon's wife, Karen, is shot in a home invasion, she blames him, and seeing him as a threat to her life and the lives of her children, she divorces him and gets a restraining order denying him all contact with his children. To get th...