Michael Sears

A Jason Stafford Novel

1 - Black Fridays (Sep-2012)
2 - Mortal Bonds (Oct-2013)
3 - Long Way Down (Feb-2015)
4 - Saving Jason (Feb-2016)

A Queens Mystery

1 - Tower of Babel (Apr-2021)
2 - Love the Stranger (Dec-2024)

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  Black Fridays
  

  • Sep-2012
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  A Jason Stafford Novel - 1
  

  Jason Stafford is a former Wall Street hotshot who made some bad moves, paid for it with two years in prison, and now is trying to put his life back together. An investment firm asks him to look into possible problems left by a junior trader who rece...

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  Mortal Bonds
  

  • Oct-2013
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  A Jason Stafford Novel - 2
  

  A sensational story of murder and financial corruption -- and one man’s continued search for redemption. William von Becker ran one of the largest privately held investment banks in North America, until the bottom fell out, and the whole edifice...

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  Long Way Down
  

  • Feb-2015
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  A Jason Stafford Novel - 3
  

  From the author of the acclaimed, award-winning debut novel Black Fridays, comes a story of murder, greed, and corruption -- and the lengths to which one man will go for his family. He approached me in the street -- bone-thin, gray-bearded, holdi...

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  Saving Jason
  

  • Feb-2016
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  A Jason Stafford Novel - 4
  

  Jason Stafford used to be a hot Wall Street trader, went too far, and paid for it in prison. Now a financial investigator, he’s been asked to look into rumors of a hostile takeover of his firm, but he has no idea it will turn his whole life upside ...

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  Tower of Babel
  

  • Apr-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Queens Mystery - 1
  

  Shamus Awardâ€"winning author Michael Sears brings Queens, New York, to literary life in this crime series debut featuring a somewhat seedy lawyer with a heart of gold (or at least gold plate). Queens, New York -- the most diverse place on earth. N...

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  Love the Stranger
  

  • Dec-2024
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Queens Mystery - 2
  

  Ted Molloy, a Queens attorney with a troublesome penchant for noble causes, investigates the murder of a corrupt immigration lawyer in the sharply observed follow-up to the 2022 Nero Award winner Tower of Babel.Ted Molloy has hit his stride with a fo...

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