Dorothy Uhnak

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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1968
  • Latest Book:
    January 2013
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Full Series List in Order

Christine Opara

1 - The Bait (1968)
2 - The Witness (1969)
3 - The Ledger (1970)

Book List in Order: 10 titles

  • The Bait

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    Christine Opara - 1

    The heroine, Detective Christine Opara, is a tough, witty female detective, and a great main character that anyone (of either sex) can relate. Dorothy had a knack for making you feel like you were actually in the story you were reading, again, better...

  • The Witness

    • / Law Enforcement
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    Christine Opara - 2

    She's the only one who saw what really happened, but this cop doesn't plan to play by the rules . . . Detective First-Grade Christie Opara, the newest addition to the district attorney's Special Investigation Squad, has just gotten her first assig...

  • The Ledger

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    Christine Opara - 3

    Every crime has its price, but for one woman, the cost may be too high Elena Vargas is a material witness to a homicide, the shooting of a foot soldier in an international mob cartel. But the sultry call girl and sometime-mistress of gang lord En...

  • Law and Order

    New York City: from 1937 to the 1970s, the NYPD owned the streets, and the Irish owned the NYPD. Officers ruled their beat, fighting crime the way they wanted, and bending the law to take what they could. There was only one rule: look after your o...

  • False Witness

    After a beautiful television star is brutally raped and beaten in her apartment, the Bureau Chief of the District Attorney's office, an ambitious young woman, persistently attempts to get a conviction...

  • Victims

    When a woman is murdered in her own Queens neighborhood and, despite hearing her screams, her neighbors do nothing, a young New York City detective risks her life and her career to uncover the reasons for the victim's death and her neighbors' silence...

  • The Ryer Avenue Story

    Haunted by the night when, as children, they fled the scene of a homicide in a Bronx street, six characters searching for power and success are reunited when one of them threatens to divulge the secret about the murder. Reprint....

  • Codes of Betrayal

    When police officer Nick O'Hara's child is murdered, caught in the line of mob fire, Nick knows who is responsible, but as the half Irish and half Italian grandson of a mafia don, his hands are tied, or so he believes. Reprint....

  • The Investigation

    A story of a housewife with a secret -- and a cop with an obsession. In a peaceful, residential section of Queens, all hell is about to break loose. Kitty Keeler's children have gone missing. Both she and her estranged husband say they have no idea w...



  • Policewoman

    Dorothy Uhnak’s no-holds-barred memoir about her life as one of New York’s finest The “original policewoman,” Dorothy Uhnak was the first to write a procedural novel with a female cop as the protagonist. But before she turned her talents t...

Award-Winning Books by Dorothy Uhnak

The Bait
1969 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- First Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dorothy Uhnak has published 10 books.

Dorothy Uhnak does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Investigation, was published in January 2013.

The first book by Dorothy Uhnak, The Bait, was published in January 1968.

Yes. Dorothy Uhnak has 1 series.
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