Michael Allen Dymmoch

John Thinnes & Dr. Jack Caleb

1 - The Man Who Understood Cats (Jun-1993)
2 - The Death of Blue Mountain Cat (Mar-1996)
3 - Incendiary Designs (Oct-1998)
4 - The Feline Friendship (May-2003)
5 - White Tiger (Aug-2005)

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  The Man Who Understood Cats
  

  • Jun-1993
  • / Police Procedural
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  John Thinnes & Dr. Jack Caleb - 1
  

  Jack Caleb is a Gold Coast psychiatrist, wealthy, cultured - and gay. John Thinnes is a burned out Chicago detective. When one of Caleb's clients is found dead in his locked apartment -- apparently of a self-inflicted head wound, Thinnes doesn't beli...

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  The Death of Blue Mountain Cat
  

  • Mar-1996
  • / Law Enforcement
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  John Thinnes & Dr. Jack Caleb - 2
  

  In this “exciting” sequel to The Man Who Understood Cats, psychiatrist Jack Caleb and cop John Thinnes must solve the murder of a Native American artist (Library Journal).   Native American artist Blue Mountain Cat seems determined to provok...

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  Incendiary Designs
  

  • Oct-1998
  • / Law Enforcement
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  John Thinnes & Dr. Jack Caleb - 3
  

  With “terse prose,” this “fascinating” entry in the award-winning series pits psychiatrist Jack Caleb and cop John Thinnes against a serial arsonist (Library Journal).   While jogging through Chicago’s Lincoln Park at dawn, Dr. Jack Ca...

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  The Feline Friendship
  

  • May-2003
  • / Law Enforcement
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  John Thinnes & Dr. Jack Caleb - 4
  

  "Thinnes specialized in homicide. He hated working rapes. Rape was more like a drive-by shooting than anything else because it was often a matter of the victim being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But drive-bys usually happened in the killer's...

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  The Fall
  

  • Aug-2004
  • / Mystery
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  Most of us are lucky that some simple action---one that we've performed a hundred times---doesn't suddenly plunge our entire life into a private hell. But undeserved or not, unheralded or not, that's what happens to Joanne Lessing, a freelance photog...

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  White Tiger
  

  • Aug-2005
  • / Police Procedural
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  John Thinnes & Dr. Jack Caleb - 5
  

  John Thinnes, a detective on the Chicago police force, and Jack Caleb, a well-known psychiatrist, were friends---unlikely friends, maybe, with very different lives, but men who liked and respected each other. And they had one significant experience i...

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  The Cymry Ring
  

  • Mar-2006
  • / Mystery
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  A “skillfully written, wonderfully entertaining, and fascinatingly detailed” time-travel adventure from the author of the Caleb and Thinnes mysteries (Booklist).   British detective Ian Carreg never expected his life to unfold like this. A r...

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  Death in West Wheeling
  

  • Aug-2006
  • / Mystery
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  “Breakneck pace and solid atmosphere are the hallmarks here.” -- AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION When a local schoolteacher disappears from rural West Wheeling, acting sheriff Homer Deters investigates. Before long he's got three more missing perso...

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  MIA
  

  • Apr-2008
  • / General Fiction
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  The accidental death of Rhiann Fahey's second husband leaves her paralyzed by grief and her son Jimmy cutting school and drinking. The widow's problems are compounded by the unwanted advances of her dead husband's friend.Rhiann does her best to cope,...

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  Flight
  

  • Jul-2012
  • / Romantic Suspense
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  This short story was "born" at the "You Done It" workshop conducted at the 2012 Chicago Romantic Times Convention. Authors Libby Hellmann, Laura Caldwell, and Michael Allen Dymmoch, members of The Outfit Collective (http://theoutfitcollective.blogspo...

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  M.I.A.
  

  • Jan-2015
  • / Mystery
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  “Tautly crafted, Dymmoch’s bittersweet journey of discovery glimmers with subtle tension” -- from the award-winning author of the Caleb and Thinnes mysteries (Booklist).   The accidental death of Rhiann Fahey’s second husband leaves...

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  Courtin' Murder in West Wheeling
  

  • May-2016
  • / Police Procedural
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  Sheriff Homer Deters returns in the “delightful” sequel to Death in West Wheeling from the award-winning author of the Caleb and Thinnes mysteries (Publishers Weekly). When Sheriff Homer Deters’ proposal to his sweetheart is...

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