Cadillac Holland Mysteries

Blowback is another name for the unforeseen consequences of one's actions. It also describes the consequences of assigning Louisiana State Police Detective "Cadillac" Holland to track down a homicide fugitive the prosecutor released by accident. This is the first book in the Cadillac Holland Mysteries series and we learn how he earns his nickname, but are also, introduced to a cast of characters who will be with him through the remaining books as well. Detective Holland doesn't believe the story behind the shooting and sets out to solve what really happened the night of the shooting before he brings the fugitive to justice, establishing a habit he will repeat with every case New Orleans' Chief of Detectives assigns him. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, the series intertwines actual events and incidents related to the city's troubled recovery from the storm and subsequent flooding with heavily layered mysteries only someone as troubled and determined as the city itself could solve.

Every story needs a beginning. The story of Louisiana State Police Detective Cadillac Holland's legend began with what should have been a simple fugitive case. It's hard to find a man who doesn't want to be found, and harder still when you have trouble telling the destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina from the bombed out streets of Baghdad you left behind in an ambush that nearly took your life. Detective Holland is building a reputation for leaving a trail of unintended consequences in his path, but he will always get his man.

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Detective Cadillac Holland is the cop you call when the case that needs to be solved might not even be a crime.It's election season in New Orleans, and the local champions of gentrification, along with outside condominium developers eager to exploit disaster capitalism in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, enjoy the backing of the City Council. The vision that these newcomers have for the Lower Ninth Ward threatens to displace the city's most vulnerable residents, many of whom are still reeling from the storm's economic fallout.Detective Holland is called upon to investigate the true motives behind the purchase offer for homes built by the Make It Right Foundation. His findings will ripple through the city's precarious political landscape in ways that will ultimately reshape the troubled city's future. H. Max Hiller translates forty years in the hospitality industry and twenty years of living in New Orleans to create his mystery series which uses the food and settings of just-post-Katrina to enhance mysteries which hinge on either Detective Holland's cloudy past as a Tier-One operator or the city's struggles to recover from Hurricane Katrina, often both.

Louisiana State Police Detective "Cadillac" Holland is asked to help investigate a series of arson fires, but what he uncovers is a dark conspiracy meant to provoke a gang war as New Orleans enters a crucial local election, Mardi Gras, and the city's football team's first trip to the Super Bowl. The menace this poses is compounded by the discovery that it is being orchestrated by a corrupt government contractor on behalf of a Homeland Security official sworn to protect the nation from just this sort of thing. Worse yet, the man running the contractor's operation nearly got Detective Holland killed while working for the same company on a classified operation in Iraq; a mission he has gone to great lengths to keep his friends and family from knowing the details about. The detective must put his life at risk to derail the phony gang war and protect his city, his family, and his secrets.

A change of venue from south of I-10 to Missouri has no effect on Detective 'Cadillac' Holland's ability to ruffle feathers, break rules, and bring a disturbing surfeit of firepower into play to right a wrong...several, in fact. A phone call out of the blue from and old military school classmate - and a disconcerting visit from that classmate's sister - leads Detective Holland to inadvertently stumble upon yet another global issue: antiquities theft. In his usual fashion, he manages to foist his unique approach upon every level of law enforcement from a small-town Missouri sheriff to the FBI and beyond, while skirting not only the law but the unexpected lurking danger of suffering the ultimate retribution from his Iraqi nemesis, the politically connected Habib family, while searching for an elusive shipping container of cultural artifacts stolen from the Iraqi National Museum. Allies are hard to come by when no one is who - or where - they seem to be, and everyone is out for their personal gain at the detective's expense.