Larry Darter

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2011
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Howard Drew Novel

1 - Omerta (Mar-2021)
2 - The Pendulum (Sep-2021)

A Malone Mystery Novel

1 - Come What May (Jan-2017)
2 - Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair (Apr-2017)
3 - Cold Comfort (Nov-2017)
4 - Foregone Conclusion (Sep-2018)
5 - Live Long Day (Dec-2018)
6 - Foul Play (Jan-2019)
7 - Black Deeds (Jun-2020)
8 - Perchance To Dream (Oct-2020)
9 - What's Done is Done (Jan-2022)

A Rich Bishop Novel

1 - The Girl on the Beach (Nov-2021)
2 - Dead End (Feb-2022)
3 - Trouble in Paradise (May-2022)

A T.J. O'Sullivan Thriller

1 - Mare's Nest (Apr-2018)
2 - Honolulu Blues (Sep-2018)
3 - The Chinese Tiger Ying (Feb-2019)
4 - Frisky Business (Jan-2022)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • The Highbenders

    Mitch Blaine, a bitter man with a reputation as a gunslinger is on the run from his past. Just when things seem to be settling down and making a turn for the better, the reason for Mitch's bitterness re-enters his life in the form of a former lover. ...

  • All Our Yesterdays

    Ben Malone, the tough, freewheeling hero of the Malone Novels detective series is back, this time as a Los Angeles private eye

    In this mystery and suspense short story, Ben Malone accepts the case of Amanda Gates, wife of a California candida...

  • Come What May

    A Malone Mystery Novel - 1

    After his involvement in a third fatal police-involved shooting in less than a year, the department brass decides to temporarily reassign him from Hollywood Division to Robbery-Homicide Division's Cold Case Homicide Special Section while he underg...

  • Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair

    A Malone Mystery Novel - 2

    Maverick L.A.P.D Detective Ben Malone, hero from Come What May, is back in another action-packed, thrilling adventure, this time as a Los Angeles private eye.

    Start with a drop-dead gorgeous blonde socialite client, with an odd request, ...

  • Cold Comfort

    A Malone Mystery Novel - 3

    One of Hollywood's elites has been murdered, the accused her estranged husband. The situation doesn't look good for the husband, whose appetites for booze, gambling, and extramarital sex are as out-sized as his ego. To make matters worse, he is on th...

  • Mare's Nest

    A T.J. O'Sullivan Thriller - 1

    From the author of the Malone Mystery series comes a smart, sassy, sexy new P.I., T. J. O'Sullivan. Hailing originally from New Zealand, T. J. has the accent and attitude to go with it. When Los Angeles P.I. T. J. O'Sullivan is sent to Honolulu by he...

  • Foregone Conclusion

    A Malone Mystery Novel - 4

    Foregone Conclusion is the fourth novel in the thrilling Malone Private Investigator Series of Crime and Suspense Thrillers. If you like breathtaking action, laugh-out-loud humor, and a hint of romance, then you'll love this edge-of-your-seat dete...

  • Honolulu Blues

    A T.J. O'Sullivan Thriller - 2

    Heart pounding thriller and suspense detective tale that stretches from Honolulu to Hong Kong.

    New Zealand ex-pat and Honolulu PI T. J. O'Sullivan, follows the trail of a con man to Hong Kong hoping to recover her client's half a million do...

  • Live Long Day

    A Malone Mystery Novel - 5

    Live Long Day is the fifth novel in the thrilling Malone Private Investigator Series of Crime and Suspense Thrillers. If you like page turning action, dry wit, and a hint of romance, then you’ll love this high-octane private investigator thrill...



  • Foul Play

    A Malone Mystery Novel - 6

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    A search for the estranged husband of a rich young thing from Boston seeking reconciliation leads L. A. private detective Ben Malone south of the border to the exotic locales of the Mexican Riviera and into an entanglement with a trio of ruthless...

  • The Chinese Tiger Ying

    A T.J. O'Sullivan Thriller - 3

    Here is the novel that reveals tough-as-nails Honolulu private investigator T.J. O'Sullivan's romantic, sexier side--the third book in an action-packed detective mystery series.

    On the trail of a stolen ancient Chinese cultural relic called ...

  • Black Deeds

    A Malone Mystery Novel - 7

    In this latest thriller featuring the intrepid Los Angeles PI, Malone gets reacquainted with some old friends and meets new enemies in a troubling case that threatens to shake the City of Angels to its core.An aspiring investigative reporter, Piper L...

  • Perchance To Dream

    A Malone Mystery Novel - 8

    When a routine missing persons case goes sideways, Malone must once again descend into the seedy underbelly of the City of Angels in his quest to find two missing Brentwood socialites. When two young Kardashian-like sisters, Brentwood debutantes...

  • Omerta

    A Howard Drew Novel - 1

    Fans of iconic LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch will feel right at home reading the adventures of homicide Detective Howard Howie Drew. Don't miss Omerta, the first book in a brand new police procedural series set in the City of Angels. For a...

  • The Pendulum

    A Howard Drew Novel - 2

    When a mother and her young daughter are found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in a car parked at an overlook off a Hollywood freeway, it appears they are victims of a culturally driven parent-child suicide. LAPD Detective Howard Drew faces his fir...

  • The Girl on the Beach

    A Rich Bishop Novel - 1

    Some secrets are too dark to stay buried. Pressed into helping his love-struck best friend track down a mysterious, beautiful girl that the friend shared a brief romantic beach encounter with, a lazy Honolulu private investigator finds himself c...

  • Frisky Business

    A T.J. O'Sullivan Thriller - 4

    Frisky Business is crime fiction author Larry Darter's fourth novel featuring T. J. O'Sullivan, sassy New Zealand expat and no-nonsense Honolulu private investigator.In Frisky Business, when T. J. O'Sullivan agrees to help a visiting Texas rodeo cowb...

  • What's Done is Done

    A Malone Mystery Novel - 9

    Wise-cracking, Shakespeare quoting L. A. private investigator Ben Malone is back in this ninth installment of the Malone Private Investigator series. When L.A. private investigator Malone's attorney friend, Liz Harper, with the gorgeous legs he ...

  • Darker Angels

    Howard Drew, an unrelenting LAPD homicide detective assigned to the Open-Unsolved Unit, investigates the murders of victims long dead. He prowls moral fault lines and assumes the perspectives of his victims and their killers. Drew waits, poised to li...



  • Dead End

    A Rich Bishop Novel - 2

    The Rick Bishop private investigator series continues when a local attorney hires Bishop to find her missing friend and then insists on tagging along to help with his investigation. The missing friend has a sordid past. Her mob-connected ex-father-in...

  • Trouble in Paradise

    A Rich Bishop Novel - 3

    TROUBLE IS HIS BUSINESS However, private investigator Rick Bishop isn't as hard-boiled as he likes to think he is. Since he's no Philip Marlowe, his close friends and associates think of him more as half-boiled. Bishop may be irresponsible, unre...

  • Follow the Money

    NCIS is after millions in stolen government money from a holdup, and they aren't the only ones...When an old friend asks Honolulu private investigator Rick Bishop to free a man locked in the closet of his downtown office before running away with men ...

  • LA Deadly

    Hamstrung by the fallout from the pandemic and budget cuts thanks to the defund the police movement, the LAPD's elite Homicide Special Section gets caught short-handed when a North Hollywood murder involving a celebrity actor goes down. The Robbery-H...

  • Missing Time

    Bloodied clothing and an unexplained injury. A night lost to an alcohol-fueled blackout. The discovery of a grisly murder. A powerful politician's son awakens to find his hand injured, his girlfriend missing, and his memory a blank.When Dylan Quinn, ...

  • Laurel Canyon

    Murder, corruption, and organized crime collide in the shadow of the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles.In the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, lies a dark underbelly of murder, corruption, and organized crime. LAPD detective Howard Drew is about to fac...

  • Life Can Be Murder

    Join Richard Bishop, the wise-cracking private detective from Honolulu, as he embarks on a thrilling quest to retrieve a rare Hawaiian antiquities artifact in San Diego. With a high-stakes bonus on the line, Bishop must outsmart a rival collector and...

  • Passage to Remorse

    Following a political campaign fund-raiser dinner, a highway construction worker gets run down and left fighting for his life in intensive care. High profile Los Angeles attorney, Liz Harper, left the dinner intoxicated and can't remember driving hom...

  • China Doll

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy

    China Doll, another comical and exciting adventure, ripped straight from the files of Honolulu's most incorrigible and languid, soft-boiled private eye, Richard Bishop.People come to Richard Bishop's shabby Hotel Street office for professional help w...

  • The Dedman Emergence

    • / Thriller
    • Buy Buy

    Jacob Dedman, Bourne for a new generation.Immerse yourself in the extraordinary journey of U.S. Army Ranger 1LT Ethan Ross, the lone survivor of a devastating helicopter crash in Afghanistan. With seemingly insurmountable injuries, Ross's life takes ...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Larry Darter has published 29 books.

Larry Darter does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Laurel Canyon, was published in May 2024.

The first book by Larry Darter, The Highbenders, was published in May 2011.

Yes. Larry Darter has 4 series.
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