Bøker av Meg Perry

A sniper? In Bel Air?The peace of wealthy Bel Air is shattered on a Friday night by a rifle shot. Anyone who's outdoors in the neighborhood hears the shot, including Kevin Brodie and Kristen Beach, but no one knows where the shot came from or the identity of the intended target...until the next day, when Jamie Brodie brings his dog, Ammo, to Kevin's house.Ammo, a trained cadaver dog, drags Jamie and Kevin up the street about a half-mile then alerts on a house. The officers who respond to Kevin's 911 call find a man lying on his pool deck, shot in the head by a high-caliber round. The victim is identified as 72-year-old Dean Stokes, a tier three registered sex offender who was released from incarceration in Kansas four months before.The logical assumption is that one of Dean's victims waited 35 years to get their revenge. Dean's sister thinks so; she jets in from St. Louis and hires Angeles Investigations to solve Dean's murder, but she's withholding information. Why?When the Angeles team realizes that their answers probably lie in Missouri, they also realize that they'll need help. Good thing that their administrative assistant, Ryan McKinney, has a cousin in St. Louis who's a PI.

He's back...It's been two years since Jamie Brodie was involved in a murder investigation.Jamie and his husband, Pete Ferguson, are living quietly - very quietly - in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Pete stays busy with his part-time counseling job, teaching online, and gardening. Jamie has found very little to occupy his time.When Valentine's Day rolls around, the men decide to go snowboarding. They're having an awesome day on the slopes of Ski Apache when Jamie trips over a branch. Except the "branch" turns out to be a human leg, attached to a man named Gordon Clarke. Clarke is from Santa Monica, California, same as Jamie and Pete. And he has Pete and Jamie's names and address in his pocket.Why did Clarke need to talk to Pete and Jamie? And why was he silenced before he could? Finding the answers means that Jamie is heading back to Santa Monica for the first time in two years - and possibly heading right back into the path of a killer.

After eighteen years with the Los Angeles Police Department, Kevin Brodie is starting his new career as a social worker with the District Attorney's Bureau of Victim Services. He's meshing with his new partner, Jamilah Daly, and his first client encounter goes well. Life is good...except he can't figure out why Jon Eckhoff's victim looks familiar. Jon's first case as a Homicide Special detective is a French artist named Genevieve Lemieux, strangled and tossed into a ravine near the Getty Museum. According to the French Consulate, Genevieve hasn't been to the U.S. since 2002. Who would want Genevieve dead? One of the art gallery owners with whom she's been negotiating? One of the rotating cast of young men seen with her in newspaper photos? When Jon learns that Genevieve was born in California and has changed her name, Kevin realizes why she looks familiar. That realization leads Kevin and Jon to a man who Kevin never dreamed he'd see again. But is the man also a victim? Or is he a killer?

After Stephen Atcheson was fired from UCLA's Young Research Library, no one expected that he'd resurface - literally - floating in the Stone Canyon Reservoir with a bullet hole in the back of his head. It falls on the LAPD to solve the case, and it falls on Kevin Brodie and Jamilah Daly to deal with Stephen's mom and sister. Mom is grieving. Sister, not so much. Kevin has to set aside his dislike of Stephen to comfort Mom while Jamilah tries to figure out why Sister is so squirrely. Where is Stephen's alleged girlfriend? Was his script really in production? Will PayPal respond to a search warrant? And will the new cost-cutting District Attorney end Kevin and Jamilah's partnership?

Jamie Brodie is still in New Mexico, volunteering with local Search and Rescue but otherwise adrift, his days purposeless. He dreams of going home to California but doesn't know what he'd do with his time once he got there. Then a terrible tragedy and a sudden announcement propel Jamie and Pete back toward Los Angeles.But first, Jamie has some business to attend to.And clarity of purpose comes to Jamie from an unexpected source.

Who killed Chase and Kara Blackwood? Chase and Kara seemed like the perfect couple - happily married, doting parents, successful careers, good neighbors. But when social worker and victim advocate Kevin Brodie takes on the rest of the Blackwood family as clients, he discovers that the perfect couple was not so perfect. As Kevin begins to uncover Chase and Kara's secrets, he works with Jon Eckhoff, Susan Portman, and Rob Jones to figure out which of those secrets might have led to murder.While Kevin is assigned solely to the Blackwoods, Jamilah Daly is holding down the fort at the Bureau of Victim Services, juggling thirty cases and trying to stay a step ahead of District Attorney Camille Kellerman. The DA is no fan of Victim Services, and particularly dislikes the homicide specialty within the Bureau. Are Kevin and Jamilah's days at BVS numbered? And if so, what comes next?

Called out in the middle of the night.Pete Ferguson's call is from his sister; their dad has collapsed and is in intensive care. Pete flies to Tucson to be at his bedside. Jamie Brodie was already concerned for Pete's emotional well-being, and his worries only grow each time he talks to Pete - who seems to be gradually falling apart.Kevin Brodie's call is from his boss, Tim Garcia; there's been a double overdose at the Powell Library at UCLA. When the standard drug screens come back negative, Kevin and Jon Eckhoff go on the hunt to identify a new pharmaceutical killer.When Kevin and Jon's quest leads them in a direction they couldn't have imagined, Jamie gets answers to some old questions, and is left with two more mysteries. How is everything that's happening in LA connected to New Mexico? And will he and Pete make it through this crisis in one piece?