Maxine O'Callaghan

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1980
  • Latest Book:
    November 2014
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Full Series List in Order

Anne Menlo

1 - Shadow of the Child (Jan-1996)
2 - Only in the Ashes (Jun-1997)

A Delilah West Novel

1 - A Change of Clients (Dec-1999)
2 - Death Is Forever (1980)
3 - Run From Nightmare (May-1981)
4 - Hit and Run (Apr-1989)
5 - Set-Up (Nov-1991)
6 - Trade-Off (Jun-1994)
7 - Down for the Count (Nov-1997)
8 - Somewhere South of Melrose (1998)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Death Is Forever

    • / Private Investigator
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    A Delilah West Novel - 2
    Raven House Mysteries - 28

    Delilah West was a broken woman...Her world had been smashed to pieces the day she found her husband shot and bleeding to death on the beach near her home. Now she lived for the day when she would face his killer. Obsessed by revenge, she combed sout...

  • Run From Nightmare

    A Delilah West Novel - 3
    Raven House Mysteries - 46

    Janet Valek was on the run... And private investigator Delilah West had been hired to find her. Delilah spent a lot of time on the case. She learned more than she wanted to about Janet's abandoned futile life and the questionable company she kept. B...

  • The Bogeyman

  • Dark Visions

  • Hit and Run

    A Delilah West Novel - 4

    ORANGE COUNTY -- A one-time agricultural paradise that smelled of fruit blossoms. Now it reeks of money, greed, and violent death. And under every citrus tree lies a corpse. Bruised, broke and alone, Delilah West has just about given up on private i...

  • Something's Calling Me Home

    Though she’s returned to Tennessee, B.J. Johnson is far from the comforts of home as she faces the challenges of being a single mother unable to escape the haunting voices in her head in this novel of psychological terror by the author of The B...

  • Set-Up

    A Delilah West Novel - 5
    Worldwide Mysteries - 144

    CROSSFIRE It began with a set-up. Los Angeles private investigator Delilah West goes undercover in the county supervisor's office to smoke out the employee siphoning funds. Guilty party nailed. Case closed. That is, until the woman Delilah fing...

  • Dark Time

    Teenager Corey Carpenter watches in horror as the tranquility of his town is shattered by hideous beasts that enter the townfolk, feeding on their brains, twisting their emotions, and driving them to impulsive acts of violence...

  • Trade-Off

    A Delilah West Novel - 6
    Worldwide Mysteries - 191

    Escalating violence in Southern California puts even tough and savvy Delilah West's nerves on edge. She wants a safe, routine case and thinks finding missing teenager Tamra Wylie is just that - until Delilah discovers a corpse in the yard next door t...



  • Shadow of the Child

    Anne Menlo - 1

    Child psychologist Dr. Anne Menlo risks her life to break through the self-imposed silence of young Danny Lewis, a traumatized three-year-old boy who may have witnessed the brutal murder of his nanny, before the killer can strike again. Original....

  • Only in the Ashes

    Anne Menlo - 2

    Child psychologist Dr. Anne Menlo, an expert in the field of abused children, is asked to compose a psychological profile of a little girl who recently died in a house fire, at the request of the child's mother, who suspects that young Rachel had bee...

  • Down for the Count

    A Delilah West Novel - 7
    Worldwide Mysteries - 294

    FAIR GAME A trip to a Santa Ana mall turns deadly and Delilah West's razor-sharp instincts put an end to a shooting spree. But the secret is hers alone. A dead security guard is the apparent hero, Delilah hopes to keep it that way. Her inability to ...

  • Somewhere South of Melrose

    • / Private Investigator
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    A Delilah West Novel - 8
    Worldwide Mysteries - 305

    In this moody and suspenseful new story by Maxine O'Callaghan, P.I. Delilah West is hired to search for an old high school classmate. The path takes her through the underbelly of broken dreams and into the caprices of fate, where secrets are born. an...

  • The Summer of My Womanhood

    in Fathers and Daughters

    Filled with stories, memoirs, and photographs celebrating the special relationship between father and daughter, this unique collection offers the contributions of Faye Kellerman, Eileen Goudge, Carole Nelson Douglas, J. A. Jance, and other notable au...

  • A Change of Clients

    in First Cases Volume 3
    A Delilah West Novel - 1

    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...

  • Finding Rose

    in Mothers and Sons

    Released in time for Mother's Day, this collection of twelve true stories of motherhood celebrates the special bond between mother and son in works by Eric Jerome Dickey, Eileen Goudge, Peter Straub, Faye Kellerman, Diana Gabaldon, Lawrence Block, St...

  • Deal With the Devil and Other Stories

  • Going to the Dogs

    in Creature Cozies

    They're cute... they're cuddly... they're on the case. We all know that the most innocent-looking pets can commit a lot of unexpected mischief. But they can also have a talent for sniffing out two-legged troublemakers of a more dangerous kind. ...

  • Bad News and Trouble

    From Maxine O’Callaghan, Shamus Award nominee, and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America.

    Before Kinsey Millhone, Sharon McCone and V.I. Warshawski, there was Delilah West, the sensitive, gutsy...



  • Delilah West V1

    Now for the first time ever in a single volume… the daring short stories and the two bold novels that introduced the world to Delilah West, the female PI who shattered the boundaries of crime fiction.

    BAD NEWS & TROUBLE
    DEATH IS FOREVE...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Maxine O'Callaghan has published 20 books.

Maxine O'Callaghan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Delilah West V1, was published in November 2014.

The first book by Maxine O'Callaghan, Death Is Forever, was published in January 1980.

Yes. Maxine O'Callaghan has 2 series.
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