Stanley Bentworth

Somebody has taken a shot at Stanley Bentworth and the soft-boiled detective doesn't know who wants him dead or why. Then, when a stranger who resembles Stanley is gunned down in broad daylight, Stanley wonders which of them was the intended victim.His investigation charts an unlikely journey through the worlds of online pornography, a legendary cat burglar, buried treasure, and a legacy that he never knew was meant to be his own.

Dead young women are piling up in a small suburban city, their throats slashed, their bodies desecrated, and homicide detective Stanley Bentworth and his rookie staff are caught up in an intensive investigation.When the Slasher steps up his schedule, the bosses pressure the team to find the killer and rescue the next victim. If they fail, the once peaceful town's panicked citizens will lock themselves in at night, awaiting the next senseless killing, not knowing when, where, and who it will be.

When homicide detective Stanley Bentworth fires his weapon in the line of duty for the first time, he kills a youth from the projects. The tragic event pulls at his conscience, and he deals with Internal Affairs (the rat squad"), a city psychiatrist, and outraged citizens. On administrative duty pending the investigation, he infiltrates Narcotics to ferret out corrupt cops. But the Lieutenant sends him undercover on the street to ferret out an enigmatic drug kingpin, and Stanley must do battle with the rat squad, dirty cops, outraged citizens, and gangbangers.

With a month off from Homicide, soft-boiled detective Stanley Bentworth bails out to accept an invitation from an old pal to consult as head of security for a high-tech startup corporation.But when a company executive is discovered with a bullet in his brain, Stanley finds himself drawn into a homicide investigation with overtones of corporate espionage and domestic terrorism, all the while butting heads with his counterparts in the local police. Instead of a much-needed rest, he is up to his eyeballs in the cold, heartless, and even sinister world of corporate finance, giving new meaning to the phrase hostile takeover.

When the Captain gives him the boot again, soft-boiled detective Stanley Bentworth finds himself back in his P.I. office in search of new clients and cases to solve. His first assignment sends Stan and his associate Sanford as bounty hunters to capture a bail-jumper, a botched adventure that puts Stan in the hospital and results in a warrant for his arrest on federal kidnapping charges. Now on the lam under an alias, Stan works as a bag man for what turns out to be a domestic terrorist support organization. This unlikely association finds him locked away in a remote safe house that he calls Gitmo North." He does battle with the Department of Homeland Security, corrupt narcotics detectives, his former wife's jealous husband, and a mob assassin, all out to deliver lethal payback for the questionable deeds of his checkered past. With so many hurdles to clear and so many foes to face, Stanley struggles to keep everything in balance, all the while juggling disabling migraine headaches and disruptive romantic relationships with a beautiful lawyer and his ex-wife. Just another routine month in the life of Stanley Bentworth, Private Investigator.

P.I. Stanley Bentworth spends his days staking out cheating spouses and chasing down bail jumpers and his evenings drinking Jack and pursuing women with a pulse.When he helps a lovely young prostitute discourage an obsessive stalker, he finds himself fixated on the hooker and immersed in a complicated murder case. That's not unusual, except that this time Stan is not only trying to solve the crime, he is the number one suspect.The homicide detective tells Stan in no uncertain terms: Stay out of our way or else.Stan can take a passive back seat on a bar stool and risk serious prison time. Or he can plunge in to save himself and get busted for impeding the official investigation. Either way he loses.

All the characters in the Stanley Bentworth Mysteries series are gathered together in a three-book collection, the first three volumes of the series offered at less than the price of a single volume in the series.On the Street Where You Die introduces Stan and his contingent of characters-Willa, Rodney, Amanda, Sanford-as they set about to shut down a blackmail operation and clear the client of a murder charge they believe and hope is a frame-up. You'll meet Sammy too, the bartender at Oliver's and Bunny, Stan's on-again-off-again girlfriend.In A Dead Ringer Stan gets shot at and missed only to learn that his double, driving a similar car has been murdered. Which one was the target? When the victim's widow hires Stan to solve the crime, he and his pals find themselves embroiled in the intrigues of corporate hostile takeover, Internet pornography, his hidden and long-forgotten family tree, and buried treasure.Clueless, the Pantyhose Slasher" Cases finds Stan working again in the Homicide Unit of the local police department, leading a trio of wet-behind-the-ears homicide cops. Under Stan's guidance, the fledgling team searches for a serial killer who preys on young women, leaving their bodies posed and desecrated in a manner designed to taunt the police and keep the public too scared to go out at night.