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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1990
  • Latest Book:
    September 2005
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Book List in Order: 10 titles



  • Christmas in Berkeley is grim for Helen Black, Private Investigator. Clients are scarce and her lover doesn't like Helen's new career. Then Helen lands her first important case: A wealthy lesbian whose lover is a murder suspect....



  • Jill Gallagher, a hard-up, has-been journalist and old friend of PI Helen Black, is onto a story that could resurrect her career. But her comeback is cut short when she falls to her death near Still Waters Lodge in northern California. The police cal...



  • Celebrated Berkeley private eye Helen Black returns … for a case that will test her professional mettle … not to mention her personal cool. Cecily Bennett, her newest client, has been brought to Helen by ex-partner Frieda. But to Helen’s conste...



  • To most people, a call in the middle of the night means family trouble. But Helen Black’s family disowned her years ago. But the call is indeed from Helen’s family. Great Aunt Ruth has passed on, and, inexplicably, left Helen her house. And so He...



  • When a community health clinic is besieged by anti-abortion protestors, Helen Black's ex-lover begs her to help. Realizing that the only way to get information is from the inside, Helen goes under cover and infiltrates the extremist group. Considerin...



  • A Helen Black Mystery When downsized corporate executive and closeted lesbian Leslie Merrick takes a nose dive from an eighth-story window, the cops jump to the conclusion that her death is a suicide. Could the woman's fall have been accidental? Or i...



  • With their relationship on shaky ground, Helen and Alison leave for a weekend at a popular casino with Helen's favorite Aunt and Uncle. They're hoping that the rhythm of the slot machines and the rumbling of the roulette wheel will help the shell-sho...



  • When the death of her beloved Uncle Loy draws Helen Black back to Mississippi, she finds herself in the midst of another mystery-- and this one involves her own family. Helen wonders whether Uncle Loy`s last words might have explained the photo she f...



  • Helen Black is out on parole near the small Mississippi town she escaped in her youth. As she struggles to put her life back together and make friends with the residents of Tynedale, Helen is pulled into the seamy underside of this ostensibly placid ...






  • After serving time in prison, former cop Helen Black returns home to Berkeley, California, hoping to start over... but her new life doesn’t look very promising. Struggling through her days with dull temp jobs, she meets Alice one night at a local b...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Pat Welch has published 10 books.

Pat Welch does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Time To Cast Away, was published in September 2005.

The first book by Pat Welch, Murder by the Book, was published in February 1990.

Yes. Pat Welch has 1 series.