Richard B. Schwartz

A Jack Grant Mystery

1 - Last Voice You Hear (Jun-2006)
2 - Proof of Purchase (Mar-2007)
3 - Into the Dark (Aug-2016)

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  Frozen Stare
  

  • Dec-1989
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  Jack Grant, Vietnam vet turned L.A. private eye, spends his days busting small-time insurance defrauders. But his latest client gives him the cold shoulder―literally― when he turns up dead in a tub of ice. Another body in a downtown meat freezer ...

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  Nice and Noir
  

  • May-2002
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  Owners of mystery bookshops will tell you that there are several sorts of buyers: those who purchase on impulse or whim; genre addicts who buy paperbacks by the week and by the armful; and those who have caught up on canonical texts and regu...

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  Last Voice You Hear
  

  • Jun-2006
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  A Jack Grant Mystery - 1
  

  A California congressman is impaled on an escalator in a London tube station and a big-shot real estate agent is poisoned on a Disneyland ride. Unusual sword-like murder weapons, public settings, and expert execution connect these two brutal homicide...

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  Proof of Purchase
  

  • Mar-2007
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  A Jack Grant Mystery - 2
  

  Cynthia Bladen has been missing for weeks when private investigator Jack Grant takes the case. This time there is a motivating, if unsettling, force behind the investigation: Cynthia is Jacks ex-girlfriend. When her mutilated body is found, Cynthias ...

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  Into the Dark
  

  • Aug-2016
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  A Jack Grant Mystery - 3
  

  An engaging, hard-boiled mystery. The most prominent painter in southern California is found hanging in his Laguna Canyon studio. The Laguna Beach police initially think suicide; his sister says murder and works with Detective Tom Deaton to find her ...

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  The SURVIVOR'S SONG
  

  • Sep-2021
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  Using their frequent flier miles Marcy and Jim Morgan have left the icy shores of Lake Erie for the cloudless skies and warm sand of Laguna Beach.  The bright sun and gentle wind are suddenly displaced by the anguished screams of their son, Ben,...

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  Nightmare Man
  

  • Nov-2021
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  The third Tom Deaton novel is dark and pulpy, with a full-tilt plot, the complete ensemble of previous series characters and a memorable antagonist who is the stuff of nightmares.            Earl...

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  Death Whispers
  

  • Jan-2022
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  We are in the California desert above Lake Elsinore; the remains of Terry Randall and his wife Susan are lying in the dust and grit.  Susan's right hand is missing.  The initial verdict is that Terry killed Susan and then himself, using the...

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  No Exit
  

  • Jul-2022
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  Following the Jack Grant and Tom Deaton series, No Exit features a new series protagonist: FBI Special Agent Gwen Harrison.  Introduced in Poison Touch, Gwen is a native American, descended from distinguished ancestors, including a warrior who f...

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  Townhouse and Other Stories
  

  • Feb-2024
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  This book contains 12 original short stories that represent a number of subgenres within the broad field of crime and mystery fiction. From the humorous and explicitly comic to the dark and brooding, they vary in setting from early 21st-century Cinci...

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  Poison Touch
  

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  Dr. Leonard Barnes, a prominent Irvine surgeon, is the part-time medical examiner for the Laguna Beach PD.  A gentle but formal man, his naked, comatose body is found beside the freeway near San Juan Capistrano.  His coma has been brought o...

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  Red City
  

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  Terry Rader is cleaning his rental port-o-lets in MacArthur Park when he finds a young woman, her blue hospital scrubs covered with thick, dried blood.  Her name is Denise White.  She is a nurse practitioner, employed by a USC health clinic...

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