Book 1

Death is Forever

by Maxine O'Callaghan

Published 1 February 1999
"The feisty West is considered one of the first of the modern women PIs and also one of the grittiest," Los Angeles Times

Before Kinsey Millhone, Sharon McCone and V.I. Warshawski, there was Delilah West, the sensitive, gutsy and resourceful private eye who shattered the boundaries of mystery fiction...and now she's back.

DEATH IS FOREVER

The first Delilah West novel by Maxine O'Callaghan, honored by the Private Eye Writers of America with their Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ex-cop Delilah West is working as a PI with her husband Jack when he's killed while investigating a missing person's case. Grief-stricken and enraged, she becomes obsessed with finding the killer...only to wake up drugged in a skid-row hotel room with him lying beside her with a knife in his back. It's the perfect frame, nailing her for an obvious revenge killing. Now she's on the run...living on a razor's edge trying to avoid capture while searching for the murderers who've destroyed her life.

"A no-frills tale that's as good a marriage of detective work and domestic problems as you're likely to see," Kirkus Reviews

"Delilah's mistakes and emotional turmoil have a refreshing realism." Sun-Sentinel (Orlando)


Book 2

Run from Nightmare

by Maxine O'Callaghan

Published 3 July 2014
"One of the first of the modern women PIs and also one of the grittiest," Los Angeles Times

Before Kinsey Millhone, Sharon McCone and V.I. Warshawski, there was Delilah West, the sensitive, gutsy and resourceful private eye who shattered the boundaries of mystery fiction...

RUN FROM NIGHTMARE

When thirty-year-old Janet Valek dashes off to some small desert town and doesn't come back, her worried family hires PI Delilah West to check up on her. Delilah gladly accepts the mundane case. Delilah is still reeling from hunting down her husband's killer and has as buried herself in routine cases ever since. The more routine the better. But it turns out that Janet has vanished, and when corpses turning up dead. Delilah fears Janet may be in a shallow grave...and discovers that there are people who would like to put the feisty PI in one, too.

The second unforgettable Delilah West thriller from Maxine O'Callaghan, Shamus Award nominee, and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America.


Book 4

Set-Up

by Maxine O'Callaghan

Published 1 November 1991
The fourth novel in the ground-breaking series that shattered the boundaries of mystery fiction
Things are finally going well for PI Delilah West. She's got a new place to live and her own, thriving detective agency. Her latest case: she's hired to go undercover in the county supervisor's office to uncover a suspected embezzler. She finds the guilty party...but is it a dirty politics set-up? Delilah's determination to learn the truth makes her the target of a mad bomber. Maybe things aren't going so well after all...

Book 5

Trade-Off

by Maxine O'Callaghan

Published 1 June 1994
The stunning, fifth crime novel in the ground-breaking Delilah West series by Maxine O'Callaghan, winner of the Private Eye Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Delilah West is hired to find a missing teenager, who may have witnessed the murder of her next-door neighbor and could be on-the-run from the killer...if she isn't dead already.

"Nothing daunts Delilah West and nothing short of a bullet between her ribs can stop her for long." Los Angeles Times

"Prime mystery. O'Callaghan's polish and her eye for detail amply entertain." Publishers Weekly

"A scrappy, energetic heroine you'll find yourself pulling for." Philadelphia Inquirer