Amos Walker
8 primary works • 14 total works
Book 11
Book 23
Book 24
Book 25
Book 28
Book 29
Book 30
Book 32
Gay Catalin''s husband, a man obsessed with n oir gangster flicks from the 40s, has vanished. Detroit PI A mos Walker follows the trail to a lavishly restored motion p icture palace and a violent conclusion played out against th e light of the big screen. '
Presents a crossover novel featuring private investigator Amos Walker and hit man Peter Macklin, who struggle to protect Macklin's estranged wife from a murderous killer who may or may not be Peter's own son.
Investigating the disappearance of an entrepreneur, Amos Walker becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a murder, questionable real estate practices, and a dangerous international fugitive.
Gilia Cristobal is a flashy Latino singer with a complicated past. Her name isn't really Gilia. She's wanted in her home country for a murder she didn't commit, and she needs Walker to find a missing woman-the woman whose name she's using, whom she's been paying monthly so she can stay in the US. But when the decomposing body of the real Gilia Cristobal is found in the lumberyard next door to her mother's house, what was merely an odd case becomes downright nasty. And when an undercover death squad from the singer's home country is spotted by the FBI, the Feds think they're planning an assassination in Washington, but Walker isn't so sure. His pretty, young client is involved in a lot more than just music, and all of it is deadly.
Loren Estleman is the quintessential noir detective writer, and Amos Walker is his quintessential noir detective. Walker has made a lot of friends - and more than a few enemies - in his years as a detective in Detroit, but he has never had to deal with quite the trouble he finds when he agrees to grant the death-bed wish of Beryl Garnet. Beryl was a successful madam who had a son long ago; she asks Walker to make sure that her son gets her ashes when she's gone. He finds her son, who has been in Canada evading the law since he was a Vietnam War protester in the 1960s. A simple favour, melancholy, but benign. Except that before Walker can get settled back in Detroit, Garnet's son is dead, with him as the prime suspect. He has little choice but to find out who might have done the deed and tried to pin the blame on him...and in the process he discovers another murder, of a boxer from the 1940s, Curtis Smallwood, who happens to have been the dead man's father. If that wasn't bad enough, his task is made much more complicated by the fact that the two murders, fifty-three years apart, were committed with the very same gun. And in a place where it was impossible for a gun to be.
Joseph Michael Ballista - 'Joey Ballistic' to his mob buddies - knows most of the ways to make an illegal buck, or a 'left-handed dollar'. That's why he's in trouble again. But his crafty lawyer, Lucille Lettermore - 'Lefty Lucy' to just about every prosecutor she's ever humiliated in court - is determined to free him by getting all his previous convictions set aside, beginning with one for attempted murder. She hires Detroit private detective Amos Walker to investigate the old crime. Walker's first problem? The intended victim was investigative reporter Barry Stackpole, Walker's only true friend. Walker's not thrilled to help get his buddy's would-be killer off the hook. But money's money, so he takes the case. It won't be easy. For starters, though Joey's ex-wives grudgingly talk with Walker, he knows they're not levelling with him. And two new murders tied to the case aren't likely to make them chattier. Walker, friendless and desperate for answers, follows a string of leads old and new straight into a war of nerves and bullets in Detroit's seedy, crime-ridden underbelly.
Hardboiled detective Amos Walker returns for his nineteenth outing in his most challenging case yet. Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Darius Fuller wants Walker to break off his daughter's engagement to Hilary Bairn, a man Fuller believes is after her two million dollar trust. Walker breaks into Bairn's apartment, only to be ambushed by cops. A murder has taken place, and the victim is Fuller's daughter. Walker and the cops assume that Bairn is the murderer, but Walker has no idea what he is getting into. Walker is led to a meeting with a casino owner, who tells him Bairn owed money to a loan shark. The loan shark tells Walker that he is not the only one after Bairn. Soon Walker finds himself on the run from crooked cops and vile gangsters. Every time Walker thinks he's solved the case, he finds out he is further from the truth than when he started. This case will take all of Walker's cunning, and will prove to be his greatest trial ever!