About the Books
The Pink Slipper Cabaret
The year is 1940. Brooklyn’s District Attorney is about to drop the hammer on Murder Incorporated—the National Crime Syndicate’s lethal enforcement arm of ice-cold killers. But before the first arrests are made, they need one man above all: a phantom hitman tied to the murder of an important innocent businessman. The order is clear—find him, dead or alive. Enter Detective Elliot Reed. He’s got seven days to hunt the invisible killer hiding in Brownsville’s shadows. Posing as a contract killer, Reed infiltrates the underworld, risking everything to draw out his target. But nothing in this game is what it seems— and as he gets closer to the truth, Reed discovers a connection that reaches deep into his own past. A revelation that could destroy him.
Love. Betrayal. Honor. Deceit. The Pink Slipper Cabaret weaves fact and fiction into a gritty thriller that captures the pulse of prewar Brooklyn and the deadly game played in its back alleys. Step into a world of smoky bars, corrupt alliances, and moral ambiguity—where the cost of justice may be your soul.
82 Hyde Park Lane
In September 1961, Alex Logan, a covert CIA operative, emerges from his posting in Egypt and is thrust headlong into a mission: to stop an assassin plotting the murder of the British Prime Minister. Armed with the name of the killer and the time and place of the attack, Logan believes he’s a step ahead. But from the first move, nothing goes as planned.
The assassin proves to be more than just a threat—he’s an adversary of chilling brilliance and unrelenting cruelty. As Logan races through the streets of Paris and the alleyways of London in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, he finds himself not just battling a foe but unraveling a web of secrets that strike disturbingly close to home.
With every passing minute, the stakes escalate—not only for the Prime Minister’s life but for Logan’s own survival. And as the hunt reaches its explosive climax at 82 Hyde Park Lane, Logan discovers that the key to the assassin’s nature lies within a place where the living and the dead keep their darkest secrets.
The clock is ticking. And the truth may destroy him before the killer does.
Lovingate
It’s the beginning of a new year in Montreal—1956. A mysterious American woman from St. Paul checks into a luxury hotel and is found in her room the next day dead from an apparent suicide. The police examine the scene, and the chief is eager to close the case. But something doesn’t add up. Her passport and driver’s license are missing. They begin to wonder why a woman would travel all the way to Montreal just to commit suicide.
Lead detective Jack Macalister recruits his friend PI Eddie Wade to find the answer. Eddie travels to St. Paul to investigate her background and verify her identity only to discover that no one knows her. But someone doesn’t want him snooping around. After barely escaping with his life, Eddie continues the investigation in Montreal with his new partner and wife, Josette, and gathers enough evidence to move the case from suicide to murder. When they stumble across the woman’s true identity, chaos ensues as a local case of murder suddenly transforms into a potential international powder keg—all while a murderer lurks in the shadows.
In this fourth book of the Montreal Murder Mystery series, both Eddie and Josette go after the killer in a relentless, unstoppable pursuit. They now know who he is; all they have to do is get him. Lovingate is a riveting story that unfolds with jarring momentum and endless suspense.
The Big Hurt
It’s 1955 in Montreal when the door to private investigator Eddie Wade’s office swings open to reveal a beautiful, wealthy woman desperate to find her no-good rat of a husband who skipped out on her, taking ten thousand dollars in cash and all her jewels with him. Even though a little voice inside is telling Eddie to back away, he takes Chanel Steele’s case without any idea his life is about to change.
As the case moves forward, Eddie encounters the unexpected, spinning him in a hellish nightmare of deadly lies. Things are never as they seem. A routine missing person’s investigation suddenly turns into a case of multiple murders. Uncertainty masquerades as smugness—madness as the familiar. One by one, Eddie begins to unmask those caught in a treacherous web of insanity only to discover that someone has been playing him. But will he be able to solve the case before the killer strikes again? As the case comes to a head, Eddie uncovers a dark past, and the world is suddenly turned upside down. Eddie himself is left hanging off a cliff.
In this exciting murder mystery fueled by suspicion and revenge, Eddie Wade embarks on a determined quest for justice. But does he find the justice he’s seeking, or the kind he’s doomed to endure? Either way, his life will never be the same.
The Paradise Inn
It’s the beginning of the 1957 tourist season in Havana, and Americans are flocking to the Pearl of the Antilles. The Paradise Inn may not be the swankiest hotel, but its owners, Slane and Babs Hannigan, accommodate their guests’ every need, including a motor yacht for hire, the Valiant Queen, and a private detective agency run by their third partner, Ash Hunter.
Business is good and their rooms are full, but a series of characters suddenly turn their world upside down. Stolen jewels that once belonged to Eva Peron; a mysterious package that a ruthless Mafia boss is searching for; a cheating husband—this tourist season will be like no other.
This is colorful Havana at its best. The Tropicana, Sloppy Joe’s, and the Mob casinos are some of the backdrops for mystery, suspense, and murder. Park your new ’57 Buick, order up a Daiquiri, put your legs up, and sit back—the show is about to begin!
New York 1956
CIA officer Grady Dawson secretly enlists the aid of a wealthy New Yorker and asks him to start a foundation to support artists. Six years later, the nightmare begins.
Three internationally renowned artists have been murdered in the heart of Manhattan in as many weeks. The police are baffled because there are no motives, and the killer leaves no clues. Homicide detective Barney Wolfe takes over the case and together with Dawson, they search for the killer.
Driven and relentless, they soon discover the killer’s identity. But will they be able to find and stop him in a city of eight million people before he kills again? After they learn who’s next on the killer’s list, Dawson and Wolfe use him as bait to bring the killer out into the open. A sound strategy or a fatal tactical blunder?
But as the case unravels, and the two men unearth the motives behind the murders, they are suddenly confronted by an international Cold War crisis with catastrophic consequences.
New York 1956 will keep you on the edge of the precipice where the dividing line between justice and revenge is blurred and the threshold leading to redemption is only a faint hope.
The Spy
The year is 1956 and the world is at peace—but not for long. A rogue British MI6 agent, code name “Lucky Break,” is planning to assassinate the president of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, with the intent of igniting a powder keg under Egypt’s ally, the Soviet Union, and starting World War III.
Fearing that the United States will be dragged into a war that no one wants, and with the haunting specter of a nuclear holocaust looming, the CIA sends Alex Logan to Egypt to hunt down and kill the spy before he assassinates Nasser. Logan pursues him through the streets and alleyways in a cat-and-mouse chase in the ancient city of Alexandria, only to find himself consumed by his own past. But Logan has a bigger problem to solve. He has only seven days to find and stop Lucky Break in a city of four million people before he strikes and the Soviets play their doomsday card. The stakes have never been higher.
In this fast-paced Cold War thriller, Logan is up against a ticking clock—and impossible odds.
The Long Blue Stare
It is 1954 in Montreal—the original Sin City. Michael Spence and Philippe Belanger are long-time friends and partners in an investment firm. When it is discovered that Belanger has embezzled one hundred thousand dollars from his clients, the Crown attorney has him arrested. Because Spence believes an auditing mistake has been made and his friend is innocent, he posts bail for him. Hours after his release, Belanger disappears without a trace.
Private investigator Eddie Wade runs a one-man detective agency and needs a hot case to jump-start his bank account. When he is hired to find Belanger and the money he stole, Wade eagerly begins searching for answers within the glitz and glamour of high-class Montreal society. But when he is propelled into a darkness he never could have imagined, he finds a nightmare that ultimately makes him question all that he believes in.
In this gripping tale, a hard-boiled private investigator hunting down an embezzler unwittingly stumbles into the underbelly of death, crime, deceit, and betrayal.
Murder on the Rue Catinat
It is 1950—the Year of the Tiger. Saigon, once the Pearl of the Far East, is now a city spinning out of control. Down every tree-lined boulevard, on every outdoor terrace, in every nightclub, dance hall and restaurant, the French colonials fear for their lives. The communists are waging a war and have clandestinely infiltrated the city. Deadly bombs and grenades are now the daily norm. Spies from all sides are everywhere.
French intelligence officer Pierre Bertrand has formed a secret pact with the ruthless crime syndicate that controls Saigon’s illegal and immensely lucrative gambling halls, brothels, and opium dens. In return for ridding Saigon of communists, Bertrand legalizes their businesses and begins sharing the profits.
American journalist and former OSS officer Jack Shaw has been hired by the CIA to investigate the unholy alliance and expose those involved. As Shaw confronts Saigon’s most brutal criminals, he knows a victory will send shockwaves throughout France, crush the criminal enterprises, and pave the way for greater American involvement in Vietnam. If he fails, it could mean his life. But when a woman becomes torn between the two men, they form a love triangle of passion and deception that will lead to the moment of truth and a deadly decision for all.
In this fast-paced Cold War thriller, two spies on opposite sides in their quest to control Saigon become immersed in love and betrayal as the future of French Vietnam hangs perilously in the balance.
The Coup
In 1980, the world is teetering on the edge of darkness. The president of the Republic of Liberia, Charles Dunbar Cooper, is preparing to sign a treaty with the Soviet Union that will remove the presence of America in West Africa and signal the continued spread of Communism on the continent — an event that both American and European intelligence agents are working to prevent.
CIA officer Tom Walsh is used to traveling to Monrovia as an undercover journalist who collects sensitive information — but Walsh knows this trip will be unlike any before. Assigned to an operation with French intelligence agent Yvette Dubois to prevent the Soviet takeover of Liberia, Walsh knows they are under the gun. With just days to organize key members of the Liberian government and army and stop President Cooper from traveling to Moscow, Walsh and Dubois soon find nothing is going as planned.
One of their key players is assassinated while another is arrested and charged in a series of ritual murders. During a demonstration in the capital protesting the government crackdown on human rights, both civilians and soldiers are killed. The government foils an attempted coup and then must defend itself against another.
As the oldest republic and the most stable government on the African continent tumbles headlong into a maelstrom of nightmare and chaos, sucking in everything within its radius, two spies face the mission of their lives, leaving them to wonder if either will make it out alive.
The Last Tram on Dorchester Street
In the heart of Montreal in 1953, private investigator Eddie Wade witnesses the brutal late-night murder of Saul Blumenthal, a Jewish German immigrant. The police suddenly and mysteriously close the case on this unsolved murder in less than twenty-four hours. Smelling a rat, Eddie decides to investigate and find justice for the victim.
But Eddie soon lands in the center of a miasma of deception and ruthlessness where the edge between justice and revenge is blurred and the threshold leading to redemption is only a faint hope. Deep and brooding secrets lurk in Montreal’s Mile End neighborhood, and as Eddie discovers more about the victim and his past, he must confront the darkness that lies within his own soul.
With the facts adding up to an unexpected conclusion, Eddie realizes that more than just his investigation is at stake. Someone’s got it in for him, and Eddie had better tread carefully or he may be the next one put on ice.
Written in the tradition of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, Eddie Wade follows in the footsteps of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Mike Hammer in The Last Tram on Dorchester Street.
About the Books
The Pink Slipper Cabaret
The year is 1940. Brooklyn’s District Attorney is about to drop the hammer on Murder Incorporated—the National Crime Syndicate’s lethal enforcement arm of ice-cold killers. But before the first arrests are made, they need one man above all: a phantom hitman tied to the murder of an important innocent businessman. The order is clear—find him, dead or alive. Enter Detective Elliot Reed. He’s got seven days to hunt the invisible killer hiding in Brownsville’s shadows. Posing as a contract killer, Reed infiltrates the underworld, risking everything to draw out his target. But nothing in this game is what it seems— and as he gets closer to the truth, Reed discovers a connection that reaches deep into his own past. A revelation that could destroy him.
Love. Betrayal. Honor. Deceit. The Pink Slipper Cabaret weaves fact and fiction into a gritty thriller that captures the pulse of prewar Brooklyn and the deadly game played in its back alleys. Step into a world of smoky bars, corrupt alliances, and moral ambiguity—where the cost of justice may be your soul.
82 Hyde Park Lane
In September 1961, Alex Logan, a covert CIA operative, emerges from his posting in Egypt and is thrust headlong into a mission: to stop an assassin plotting the murder of the British Prime Minister. Armed with the name of the killer and the time and place of the attack, Logan believes he’s a step ahead. But from the first move, nothing goes as planned.
The assassin proves to be more than just a threat—he’s an adversary of chilling brilliance and unrelenting cruelty. As Logan races through the streets of Paris and the alleyways of London in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, he finds himself not just battling a foe but unraveling a web of secrets that strike disturbingly close to home.
With every passing minute, the stakes escalate—not only for the Prime Minister’s life but for Logan’s own survival. And as the hunt reaches its explosive climax at 82 Hyde Park Lane, Logan discovers that the key to the assassin’s nature lies within a place where the living and the dead keep their darkest secrets.
The clock is ticking. And the truth may destroy him before the killer does.
Lovingate
It’s the beginning of a new year in Montreal—1956. A mysterious American woman from St. Paul checks into a luxury hotel and is found in her room the next day dead from an apparent suicide. The police examine the scene, and the chief is eager to close the case. But something doesn’t add up. Her passport and driver’s license are missing. They begin to wonder why a woman would travel all the way to Montreal just to commit suicide.
Lead detective Jack Macalister recruits his friend PI Eddie Wade to find the answer. Eddie travels to St. Paul to investigate her background and verify her identity only to discover that no one knows her. But someone doesn’t want him snooping around. After barely escaping with his life, Eddie continues the investigation in Montreal with his new partner and wife, Josette, and gathers enough evidence to move the case from suicide to murder. When they stumble across the woman’s true identity, chaos ensues as a local case of murder suddenly transforms into a potential international powder keg—all while a murderer lurks in the shadows.
In this fourth book of the Montreal Murder Mystery series, both Eddie and Josette go after the killer in a relentless, unstoppable pursuit. They now know who he is; all they have to do is get him. Lovingate is a riveting story that unfolds with jarring momentum and endless suspense.
The Big Hurt
It’s 1955 in Montreal when the door to private investigator Eddie Wade’s office swings open to reveal a beautiful, wealthy woman desperate to find her no-good rat of a husband who skipped out on her, taking ten thousand dollars in cash and all her jewels with him. Even though a little voice inside is telling Eddie to back away, he takes Chanel Steele’s case without any idea his life is about to change.
As the case moves forward, Eddie encounters the unexpected, spinning him in a hellish nightmare of deadly lies. Things are never as they seem. A routine missing person’s investigation suddenly turns into a case of multiple murders. Uncertainty masquerades as smugness—madness as the familiar. One by one, Eddie begins to unmask those caught in a treacherous web of insanity only to discover that someone has been playing him. But will he be able to solve the case before the killer strikes again? As the case comes to a head, Eddie uncovers a dark past, and the world is suddenly turned upside down. Eddie himself is left hanging off a cliff.
In this exciting murder mystery fueled by suspicion and revenge, Eddie Wade embarks on a determined quest for justice. But does he find the justice he’s seeking, or the kind he’s doomed to endure? Either way, his life will never be the same.
The Paradise Inn
It’s the beginning of the 1957 tourist season in Havana, and Americans are flocking to the Pearl of the Antilles. The Paradise Inn may not be the swankiest hotel, but its owners, Slane and Babs Hannigan, accommodate their guests’ every need, including a motor yacht for hire, the Valiant Queen, and a private detective agency run by their third partner, Ash Hunter.
Business is good and their rooms are full, but a series of characters suddenly turn their world upside down. Stolen jewels that once belonged to Eva Peron; a mysterious package that a ruthless Mafia boss is searching for; a cheating husband—this tourist season will be like no other.
This is colorful Havana at its best. The Tropicana, Sloppy Joe’s, and the Mob casinos are some of the backdrops for mystery, suspense, and murder. Park your new ’57 Buick, order up a Daiquiri, put your legs up, and sit back—the show is about to begin!
New York 1956
CIA officer Grady Dawson secretly enlists the aid of a wealthy New Yorker and asks him to start a foundation to support artists. Six years later, the nightmare begins.
Three internationally renowned artists have been murdered in the heart of Manhattan in as many weeks. The police are baffled because there are no motives, and the killer leaves no clues. Homicide detective Barney Wolfe takes over the case and together with Dawson, they search for the killer.
Driven and relentless, they soon discover the killer’s identity. But will they be able to find and stop him in a city of eight million people before he kills again? After they learn who’s next on the killer’s list, Dawson and Wolfe use him as bait to bring the killer out into the open. A sound strategy or a fatal tactical blunder?
But as the case unravels, and the two men unearth the motives behind the murders, they are suddenly confronted by an international Cold War crisis with catastrophic consequences.
New York 1956 will keep you on the edge of the precipice where the dividing line between justice and revenge is blurred and the threshold leading to redemption is only a faint hope.
The Spy
The year is 1956 and the world is at peace—but not for long. A rogue British MI6 agent, code name “Lucky Break,” is planning to assassinate the president of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, with the intent of igniting a powder keg under Egypt’s ally, the Soviet Union, and starting World War III.
Fearing that the United States will be dragged into a war that no one wants, and with the haunting specter of a nuclear holocaust looming, the CIA sends Alex Logan to Egypt to hunt down and kill the spy before he assassinates Nasser. Logan pursues him through the streets and alleyways in a cat-and-mouse chase in the ancient city of Alexandria, only to find himself consumed by his own past. But Logan has a bigger problem to solve. He has only seven days to find and stop Lucky Break in a city of four million people before he strikes and the Soviets play their doomsday card. The stakes have never been higher.
In this fast-paced Cold War thriller, Logan is up against a ticking clock—and impossible odds.
The Long Blue Stare
It is 1954 in Montreal—the original Sin City. Michael Spence and Philippe Belanger are long-time friends and partners in an investment firm. When it is discovered that Belanger has embezzled one hundred thousand dollars from his clients, the Crown attorney has him arrested. Because Spence believes an auditing mistake has been made and his friend is innocent, he posts bail for him. Hours after his release, Belanger disappears without a trace.
Private investigator Eddie Wade runs a one-man detective agency and needs a hot case to jump-start his bank account. When he is hired to find Belanger and the money he stole, Wade eagerly begins searching for answers within the glitz and glamour of high-class Montreal society. But when he is propelled into a darkness he never could have imagined, he finds a nightmare that ultimately makes him question all that he believes in.
In this gripping tale, a hard-boiled private investigator hunting down an embezzler unwittingly stumbles into the underbelly of death, crime, deceit, and betrayal.
Murder on the Rue Catinat
It is 1950—the Year of the Tiger. Saigon, once the Pearl of the Far East, is now a city spinning out of control. Down every tree-lined boulevard, on every outdoor terrace, in every nightclub, dance hall and restaurant, the French colonials fear for their lives. The communists are waging a war and have clandestinely infiltrated the city. Deadly bombs and grenades are now the daily norm. Spies from all sides are everywhere.
French intelligence officer Pierre Bertrand has formed a secret pact with the ruthless crime syndicate that controls Saigon’s illegal and immensely lucrative gambling halls, brothels, and opium dens. In return for ridding Saigon of communists, Bertrand legalizes their businesses and begins sharing the profits.
American journalist and former OSS officer Jack Shaw has been hired by the CIA to investigate the unholy alliance and expose those involved. As Shaw confronts Saigon’s most brutal criminals, he knows a victory will send shockwaves throughout France, crush the criminal enterprises, and pave the way for greater American involvement in Vietnam. If he fails, it could mean his life. But when a woman becomes torn between the two men, they form a love triangle of passion and deception that will lead to the moment of truth and a deadly decision for all.
In this fast-paced Cold War thriller, two spies on opposite sides in their quest to control Saigon become immersed in love and betrayal as the future of French Vietnam hangs perilously in the balance.
The Coup
In 1980, the world is teetering on the edge of darkness. The president of the Republic of Liberia, Charles Dunbar Cooper, is preparing to sign a treaty with the Soviet Union that will remove the presence of America in West Africa and signal the continued spread of Communism on the continent — an event that both American and European intelligence agents are working to prevent.
CIA officer Tom Walsh is used to traveling to Monrovia as an undercover journalist who collects sensitive information — but Walsh knows this trip will be unlike any before. Assigned to an operation with French intelligence agent Yvette Dubois to prevent the Soviet takeover of Liberia, Walsh knows they are under the gun. With just days to organize key members of the Liberian government and army and stop President Cooper from traveling to Moscow, Walsh and Dubois soon find nothing is going as planned.
One of their key players is assassinated while another is arrested and charged in a series of ritual murders. During a demonstration in the capital protesting the government crackdown on human rights, both civilians and soldiers are killed. The government foils an attempted coup and then must defend itself against another.
As the oldest republic and the most stable government on the African continent tumbles headlong into a maelstrom of nightmare and chaos, sucking in everything within its radius, two spies face the mission of their lives, leaving them to wonder if either will make it out alive.
The Last Tram on Dorchester Street
In the heart of Montreal in 1953, private investigator Eddie Wade witnesses the brutal late-night murder of Saul Blumenthal, a Jewish German immigrant. The police suddenly and mysteriously close the case on this unsolved murder in less than twenty-four hours. Smelling a rat, Eddie decides to investigate and find justice for the victim.
But Eddie soon lands in the center of a miasma of deception and ruthlessness where the edge between justice and revenge is blurred and the threshold leading to redemption is only a faint hope. Deep and brooding secrets lurk in Montreal’s Mile End neighborhood, and as Eddie discovers more about the victim and his past, he must confront the darkness that lies within his own soul.
With the facts adding up to an unexpected conclusion, Eddie realizes that more than just his investigation is at stake. Someone’s got it in for him, and Eddie had better tread carefully or he may be the next one put on ice.
Written in the tradition of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, Eddie Wade follows in the footsteps of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Mike Hammer in The Last Tram on Dorchester Street.