Book Description

Murder! Mobsters! Detective series! Crime-drama! A touch or two of romance! Homicide Detective Lyle Odell and the entire Mohawk City police team and Odell’s trusted civilian friends return in a new adventure, and this time around; Odell and the team risk their careers, and maybe even their lives, as they face off with a powerful mobster boosted by a faction of the Russian network of organized crime operating in America. Mr. Ivan Petrov is powerful, handsome, and charismatic, and extremely wealthy. He is also the seemingly untouchable kingpin for the operation of the Russian mob in New York State. Petrov was on the top of the world, untouched, never challenged, until, suddenly, a beautiful young woman with ties to Mr. Petrov shows up deceased in a swimming pool in an exclusive apartment complex owned by Mr. Ivan Petrov. “It is just an accident,” the powers to be proclaimed. “An unfortunate tragedy.” Mohawk City in upstate New York is known as “Sin City” for its share of crime, grit, and generally, all round shady characters constantly lurking in the shadows of the streets within the city. When the great Mohawk City police homicide detective Lyle Odell is mysteriously wayward and sidelined for a “health issue” during a sensitive potential homicide investigation, his protégé, Junior Detective Miles Bradford, is suddenly thrust into the midst of the investigation. When Junior Detective Bradford declares the death of the beautiful young woman found in the swimming pool, a homicide, under rather weak evidence and questionable circumstances, it causes a ripple of doubt and mayhem within the Mohawk City Police Department and the political factions in the state hierarchy. The situation puts Captain Connor Moore, the frontline police officer for the Mohawk City Police Department, on the hot seat. Without his heralded and legendary detective heading up the case, the unpopular ruling of a homicide by a junior detective on what appears to be an accident causes waves of concern and uneasiness within the department and within the state politics. After all, Ivan Petrov is a very powerful and connected man! When the faithful friend of Lyle Odell, Police Lieutenant George Grundy rallies the police team and the friends of Lyle Odell, and he throws support to Junior Detective Bradford and Grundy jumps into the fray, Homicide Detective Lyle Odell rises from the ashes of despair, supports Junior Detective Miles Bradford and his conclusions, and makes sense of the impossible case. Suddenly, the tide is turned; Ivan Petrov is on the hot seat, as the Odell-led team closes in on the trail and Petrov’s power, and his criminal empire is challenged and on the brink of collapse! What ensues is a game of cat and mouse between the assembled team led by the genius of Detective Lyle Odell and the powerful crime family of Ivan Petrov. Which team will prevail? Plucked out of the pages of the novel “O'Malley” by his creator, Homicide Detective Lyle Odell proved to be a hugely popular character with readers. In “O’Malley,” the good detective helps the principal character solve the mysteries of his past and the brutal homicide of a fellow police officer. The character proved to so popular with readers that Paul John Hausleben created a series of novels starring the eccentric, systematic, hard-drinking, gumshoe Homicide Detective Lyle Odell. Here in this latest Detective Lyle Odell novel, the author weaves an exciting murder mystery and crime drama mixed with his usual unforgettable characters, and proves once again why Odell’s creator earned the title of “The Master Storyteller.” Grab your copy today!