Thomas Laird

• Jan-1994
• / General Fiction
• 

• Dec-2001
• / Suspense
• 

He's a cutter. He accosts unsuspecting young women, he overwhelms them with a pad of ether. Then he kills them. And eviscerates the corpses. The crime scenes he leaves behind are not pretty. Nor is the talk, in this tough, tautly plotted, and tersely...

• Jan-2003
• / Suspense
• 

Tough, taut, and terse, this crafty crime novel challenges Chicago police detective Jimmy Parisi -- the sharp, no-nonsense cop who first appeared in Cutter -- with two terrible crimes separated by three decades. Thirty years ago, in the 1960s, seven ...

• Apr-2004
• / Suspense
• 

Black Dog lives in the deep pit of the human soul, where desolation and depression also hang out. In this third Jimmy Parisi novel the Chicago detective is fighting against fatigue and homicide burnout. His latest case involves a killer -- Black Dog ...

• Apr-2012
• / Mystery
• 

It's dark underground. How would you catch a serial killer with only your badge, your wits, and a shaky sense of right and wrong? It's 1987, and a world before cellphones and DNA. Former Army Ranger and Vietnam vet, divorced Danny Mangan is a Chicago...

• Jul-2013
• / Police Procedural
• 

Have you ever been trapped between two tough worlds? Desert Storm Heart is a crime thriller focused on the aftermath of the murders and rapes of several young girls in Kuwait during Desert Storm. Will Koehn, an NCIS investigator, looks into the slayi...

• Nov-2015
• / Action Adventure
• 

THE RUIN OF SOULS is a post-World War II thriller that centers around an ex-SS captain, Eric Daemon, who escapes Nazi Germany at the end of the war and who is captured by the OSS in South America. Daemon is recruited to spy on East and West German...

• Mar-2022
• / Historical Mystery
• 

Child of the Night is an interesting exploration of not only Jack the Ripper, but the idea of nature vs nurture. I very much enjoyed all the twists and turns of the book and it was definitely that creepy kind of good that will be a great re-read arou...

• Jul-2022
• / Thriller
• 

Nick Karras is a Korean War veteran and a tough Chicago Homicide detective. But his newest challenge is his most difficult. A serial killer named the Coast to Coast Killer has been raping and murdering young women all across the United States. Nick r...