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Ronald Tierney
Full Series List in Order
A Carly Paladino & Noah Lang Mystery
1 - Death in Pacific Heights (Apr-2009)2 - Death in North Beach (Feb-2010)
Crimes of the Depraved Mind
Good to the Last Kiss (Jul-2011)Deets Shanahan
1 - The Stone Veil (Feb-1990)2 - The Steel Web (Nov-1991)
3 - The Iron Glove (Dec-1992)
4 - The Concrete Pillow (Apr-1995)
5 - Platinum Canary (Aug-2005)
6 - Glass Chameleon (Jul-2006)
7 - Asphalt Moon (May-2007)
8 - Nickel Plated Soul (Apr-2008)
9 - Bloody Palms (Nov-2008)
10 - Bullet Beach (Jan-2011)
A Peter Strand Mystery
1 - The Blue Dragon (Sep-2015)2 - The Black Tortoise (Mar-2017)
Book List in Order: 17 titles
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The Stone Veil
- Feb-1990
- / Private Investigator
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The 69-year-old semi-retired private detective reluctantly takes the case of a Mrs. William B. Stone who seems to have lost track of her husband. Shanahan, who finds his once lonely life complicated by an attractive younger woman, nevertheless finds ...
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The Steel Web
- Nov-1991
- / Private Investigator
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Two sixteen-year-old boys break into a house looking for small change. Instead they find more money than they ever dreamed possible. Unfortunately, they also discover the blood-spattered body of an undercover cop. The kids make a big mistake. They ta...
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The Iron Glove
- Dec-1992
- / Private Investigator
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THE N KED LADY WASN'T YOUR AVERAGE FLOATER She was, in fact, Sally Holland, wife of Indiana senator David Holland, half of Washington's Golden Couple. Within hours, a suspect is arrested, a young Latino boxer believed to be her lover. Though not a...
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Eclipse of the Heart
- Oct-1993
- / Suspense
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Zach Grayson is a gay, middle-aged San Franciscan author of cookbooks. Over the years, he's retreated into a self-contained, passionless, and--as he realizes during the course of this adventure--lonely existence. Into his life comes Manny. Much to Za...
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The Concrete Pillow
- Apr-1995
- / Private Investigator
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Shanahan wasn't keen on working for an addict. They couldn't be counted on for either their perceptions or their payment. But something about Luke Lindstrom made the Indiana private investigator take the case. Perhaps because he remembered when...
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Platinum Canary
- Aug-2005
- / Private Investigator
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A new Deets Shanahan investigation. Lianna is a young, attractive executive of one of the largest medical companies in the world. She is also pregnant and missing. The police discover that her fiance was the beneficiary of a new insurance policy, tha...
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Glass Chameleon
- Jul-2006
- / Private Investigator
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A new Deets Shanahan investigation set in New Orleans Too many people with secrets. Michael LaSalle knew who they were and what they wanted to hide. That's probably why he's dead. Ageing Indianapolis private detective Deets Shanahan is asked by an ol...
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Asphalt Moon
- May-2007
- / Private Investigator
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A Deets Shanahan investigationThe murder rate in Indianapolis is climbing, and someone wants to add 70-year-old private eye Deets Shanahan to the citys crime statistics. Who is it? Why? While the veteran investigator is willing to take on the mysteri...
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Nickel Plated Soul
- Apr-2008
- / Private Investigator
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A new Deets Shanahan investigation Private investigator Howie Cross is beaten to a pulp by a couple of thugs, though he has no idea why. Temporarily out of action, he asks Deets Shanahan to take on his one current case. But Shanahan is in no hurry to...
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Bloody Palms
- Nov-2008
- / Private Investigator
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A Deets Shanahan Mystery - When 70-something Indianapolis PI Dietrich Deets Shanahan receives a call from Jack Wenders, his former commanding officer in Korea, inviting him to Mexico to discuss a case, Shanahan accepts. But Wenders shadowy tactics pu...
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Death in Pacific Heights
- Apr-2009
- / Mystery
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From the creator of Deets Shanahan - Carly Paladino, a newly established PI, has a case: the death of the daughter of an old and moneyed Pacific Heights family. A mysterious young man is arrested for the murder, but Carly suspects the real murderer i...
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Death in North Beach
- Feb-2010
- / Mystery
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The second book in the new Paladino and Lang mystery series from the author of the Deets Shanahan mysteries - Sweet William, a professional companion to the wealthy, needs help. A famous, but not beloved, novelist is found dead, and William is the pr...
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Bullet Beach
- Jan-2011
- / Private Investigator
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When 71-year-old private investigator Deets Shanahan learns from a snippet of news on the Internet that his brother--who disappeared when they were kids--could be somewhere in Thailand, he immediately sets out, accompanied by his lover, Maureen, to f...
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Good to the Last Kiss
- Jul-2011
- / Mystery
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San Francisco Inspector Vincent Gratelli is charged with finding the killer of young women--all murdered in the same way, all left with an intimate mark. The most recent victim was beaten and raped in her weekend cabin. There appears to be only one d...
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The Blue Dragon
- Sep-2015
- / Private Investigator
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A murder at the Blue Dragon, a small apartment building in San Francisco’s Chinatown, prompts the absentee owner to hire Chinese American Peter Strand to calm the anxious tenants. But Strand isn’t exactly what he appears to be. Neither are the te...
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The Black Tortoise
- Mar-2017
- / Mystery
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Peter Strand is half Chinese and half Cherokee and was adopted by an elderly white couple from Phoenix. Now he's a forensic accountant in San Francisco, where he's struggling with his identity. When his employer asks him to investigate a San Franc...
