Angeles Investigations Mysteries

Angeles Investigations is nearly ready for its opening day on Tuesday, August 1. Rob Jones, Kevin Brodie, and Jamilah Daly have worked for weeks to make their vision come to life. Jamie Brodie is on board to resume his career as a professional researcher. All they need to do now is hire an administrative assistant. How hard could that be?Meanwhile, Jon Eckhoff and Susan Portman are tracking a serial killer preying on real estate agents in the Valley. When interior decorator Paul Thayer is found stabbed to death in an empty house in the Palisades, the powers that be decide to assign that one to Jon and Susan, too.Fortunately, Paul's murder should be easy to solve. They have two excellent suspects - Paul's ex-business partner, Adrienne Pennell, and his ex-husband, Aaron Quinn. They both have financial motives, and neither of them has an alibi. All Jon and Susan have to do is prove that one of them killed Paul. How hard could that be?Adrienne Pennell has other ideas. She hires Angeles Investigations to solve Paul's murder and thereby exonerate her and Aaron. The race is on between former partners Kevin and Jon to find Paul's killer. And, to Jamie's dismay, he gets dragged into the field with Rob to do some playacting.Paul's life was complicated, and there are plenty of questions to answer. Why didn't he ever change his will? Who's the silent partner in his business? Whose DNA is in the condom in his bathroom? What will the beneficiary of his will do with all that penile art? And who the hell is Davis Scherer, and why is he lying?The answers are out there, and Angeles is determined to find them before the police do.How hard could that be?

"LA Tower, Southwest 2298. There's someone lying on the top deck of the parking garage."When a passenger on an arriving flight spots a body on top of a garage at LAX, the mystery seems like a routine whodunit. Then another tragedy draws Angeles Investigations and the LAPD into a web of lies and deceit that extends to Mexico and beyond. The Brodie brothers are forced to face some of their own demons, and the rest of the team wonders - what happens when justice can't be served?

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.