The Delilah West Thiller

2 primary works

Hit and Run

by Maxine O'Callaghan

Published 1 January 1989

The PI business has been hard on Delilah West over the last year. Her husband and business partner was murdered and her last case left her with a broken arm, cracked ribs, and big medical bills, forcing her to moonlight as a waitress to pay the bills. As if that wasn't bad enough, she's jogging on a rain-slicked road when a speeding Trans Am clips her and mows down an old man. But things take a bizarre turn when the driver's mother hires Delilah to clear her teenage son of the hit & run killing that Delilah witnessed. Or did she? Nothing is what it appears to be in a twisty, deadly case, that could end with Delilah as road kill.

Down for the Count

by Maxine O'Callaghan

Published 31 December 1997

The sixth and final novel in the ground-breaking Delilah West series by Maxine O'Callaghan, a Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award honoree.

It's tough times for P.I. Delilah West. She kills a mass shooter at a shopping mall, is hired by a twelve year-old to find his missing Dad...and then she and her wealthy boyfriend's teenage daughter are taken hostage by a brutal kidnapper. But Delilah's troubles are only just beginning...

"The story keeps you turning pages to watch West confront the devils of crime and heart that imprison her. O'Callaghan captures a multicultural California landscape of freeways and fast food, one that reeks of money and stinks of pain and poverty." The Washington Post

"Delilah is a tough P.I. with a realistic vulnerability. her mistakes and emotional turmoil have a refreshing realism." South Florida Sun-Sentinel

"Clean, springy action and a colorful cast...best of all is the appealing, brassy and vulnerable Delilah." Publishers Weekly