Kathleen George

Pittsburgh Homicide

1 - Taken (May-2001)
2 - Fallen (Jun-2004)
3 - Afterimage (Dec-2007)
4 - The Odds (Jun-2009)
5 - Hideout (Aug-2011)
6 - Simple (Aug-2012)

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  Taken
  

  • May-2001
  • / Law Enforcement
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  Pittsburgh Homicide - 1
  

  The child was taken in broad daylight, on a warm June morning, in a crowded shopping area in downtown Pittsburgh. Marina Benedict first saw the baby with his mother. Then, just minutes later, she saw him again, in the arms of a man she was certain...

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  Fallen
  

  • Jun-2004
  • / Law Enforcement
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  Pittsburgh Homicide - 2
  

  It happened in the night, when no one was around to see it. A Pittsburgh doctor, who dedicated himself to helping others, was shot through the heart. Now days have passed, and Dan Ross's wife, Elizabeth, has entered a twilight zone of grief, flooded ...

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  Afterimage
  

  • Dec-2007
  • / Police Procedural
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  Pittsburgh Homicide - 3
  

  In the humid dog days of a Pittsburgh summer weekend, Richard Christie, Head of Homicide, faces not one, but two mysterious murders. The victims---a polite woman and an angelic child---do not seem to be connected in any obvious way. Christie is short...

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  The Odds
  

  • Jun-2009
  • / Police Procedural
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  Pittsburgh Homicide - 4
  

  The Homicide Department is upside down--Richard Christie is in the hospital, Artie Dolan is headed away on vacation, John Potocki's life is falling apart, and Colleen Greer is so worried about her boss's health, she can hardly think. A young boy in P...

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  Hideout
  

  • Aug-2011
  • / Police Procedural
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  Pittsburgh Homicide - 5
  

  The new book in Kathleen George's stunning Pittsburgh-set police procedural series begins when a young mother dies in a hit-and-run accident caused by two young brothers. Desperate and afraid, Jack and Ryan Rutter flee to Sugar Lake, the summer commu...

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  Simple
  

  • Aug-2012
  • / Police Procedural
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  Pittsburgh Homicide - 6
  

  Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel for The Odds, Kathleen George has received raves from all corners for her Pittsburgh-set police procedural series. Now, in Simple, series detective Colleen Greer is back in this stunning. Cassie Price is...

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  A Measure of Blood
  

  • Jan-2014
  • / Mystery
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  A murder sends a child into foster care and drags a detective into a feverish hunt for justice Nadal watches for weeks before he first approaches the boy. No matter what Maggie Brown says, he’s sure Matt is his son, and a boy should know his fat...

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  The Johnstown Girls
  

  • Apr-2014
  • / Historical
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  Ellen Emerson may be the last living survivor of the Johnstown flood. She was only four years old on May 31, 1889, when twenty million tons of water decimated her hometown of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Thousands perished in what was the worst natural d...

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  The Blues Walked in
  

  • May-2018
  • / Historical
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  In 1936, life on the road means sleeping on the bus or in hotels for blacks only. After finishing her tour with Nobel Sissel’s orchestra, nineteen-year-old Lena Horne is walking the last few blocks to her father’s hotel in Pittsburgh’s Hill Dis...

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  Chester Chipmunk Will Not Sleep
  

  • Jan-2020
  • / General Fiction
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  Chester Chipmunk will not sleep!It’s bedtime in the nook of Cherry Hill, but Chester Chipmunk just can’t sleep! He’s had too much fun playing today, and he isn’t ready to stop now. Good thing Mom knows a trick or two to help c...

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  Mirth
  

  • Sep-2022
  • / General Fiction
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  "...a dazzling portrait of a man who lives up to his name, and of those who love him. A wonderful novel." -- Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in The Field Mirth chronicles the struggles of a writer, Harrison Mirth, a romantic man who writes about lo...

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