Stuart M. Kaminsky

Lew Fonesca is just trying to get through life with no complications or hardships, but when he is asked to track down a missing town-counsil member and instead finds a slew of dead bodies, he knows he is in over his head.

Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union, and his team search for a serial killer who has claimed at least 40 victims while protecting a visiting British journalist who is working on a story about a Moscow prostitution ring that produces leads to a high-level source seemingly beyond Rostnikov's reach.

Lew Fonesca, a Boston private investigator, tackles a complex case filled with secrets and lies in Denial: A Lew Fonesca Mystery by Kaminsky, exploring justice and moral ambiguity.

Abe Lieberman, a determined private investigator, confronts danger and deception in The Big Silence: An Abe Lieberman Mystery by Kaminsky, as he unravels a tense case filled with secrets and moral complexity.

In 1940s Hollywood, PI Toby Peters is hired by Fred Astaire to serve as a dancing partner for a gangster's moll learning to dance. A strenuous assignment as Peters is no dancer, but before you know it the moll is killed and Peters is once again in his element. By the author of Tomorrow Is Another Day.

It is 1943 and PI Toby Peters is hired by Clark Gable, the movie star, to catch a killer. The man is bumping off actors who were in the film, Gone with the Wind. He has sent a note saying Gable's turn will come. Peters suspects the killer is eliminating people who may have witnessed a murder disguised as an accident during the burning of Atlanta, a scene in the film.

Chief Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov has his hands full while trying to track down a beautiful serial killer who seems to choose her victims at random and attempting to locate the missing son of one of Moscow's most powerful citizens.

In Russia, Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and his squad of dedicated and honest policemen battle organized crime, muggings, kidnapings and murder. The action unfolds against the background of the anarchy which followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. By the author of A Cold Red Sunrise.

As a serial killer terrorizes Moscow, Rostnikov gets an assignment in Havana The young girl leads her target into a park, planning on robbing him at knifepoint as soon as they are out of sight. But before she can strike, her quarry changes from a stooped middle-aged man to a feral beast, swinging a lead pipe with sadistic glee. By the time the police find the thief, her murderer is long gone.   He is the first serial killer in Russian history, responsible...

In the faltering Soviet Union, the KGB will do anything to hold on to power A Jewish man in a squalid government flat finds a killer in his shower. A young punk girl hurtles naked through the window of her apartment. And in the Crimea, at a health retreat for mid-level functionaries, an aging policeman's death is made to look like heart failure.   It's this last murder that catches Porfiry Rostnikov's attention. The inspector's wife is recovering...