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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1987
  • Latest Book:
    March 2020
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Full Series List in Order

A Carroll Quint Mystery

1 - Jigsaw (Apr-2007)
2 - Still Shot (Apr-2008)

A Nick Polo Mystery

1 - Polo at the Ritz (Dec-1999)
2 - Polo Solo (Jul-1987)
3 - Polo Anyone? (Mar-1988)
4 - Polo's Ponies (Oct-1988)
5 - Polo in the Rough (Jun-1989)
6 - Polo's Wild Card (Jun-1990)
7 - Green with Envy (Nov-1991)
8 - Special Delivery (Dec-1992)
9 - Vintage Polo (Dec-1993)
10 - Beggar's Choice (Dec-1994)
11 - All That Glitters (Jan-1997)

Book List in Order: 27 titles



  • Streetwise, smart-mouthed, and down-on-his-luck San Francisco private eye Nick Polo had gotten an offer he couldn't refuse. After all, he was sitting out a stretch in the slammer and a top city official was offering him a ticket to the street and his...



  • Banker Paul Randall offers Polo a rich fee to sit in on a poker game and discover whether computer tycoon Ron Dettman is cheating. He is, but Polo outfoxes the cardsharp and wins thousands from him. Collecting the money, though, pulls the detective i...



  • Nick Polo's energetic third adventure embroils him in a bodily harmful racetrack betting scheme. After explaining horse-racing terminology for journalist girlfriend Jane at the Golden Gate Fields racetrack, Polo stumbles across the body of a small-ti...



  • Investigative journalist Jack Slate was writing a book exposing those who had helped themselves to the Swiss-bank bounty of Iran's late Shah, and obviously someone didn't want Slate to name names. The story unfolds as a mad dash for the missing manus...



  • Polo attends a $500-a-plate charity dinner with his girlfriend (they have an "understanding," thus allowing him to pop guilt-free into a few other beds as the story unfolds) to gain a seat in a high-stakes poker game held during the event. Several va...



  • P.I. Nick Polo’s wry commentary on modern society--especially as experienced in San Francisco--with fast-paced adventure to create a thoroughly entertaining romp. Polo is accosted by a fellow investigator who accuses him of planting a bug on a clie...



  • Polo's millionaire friend Raymond Singh hires him to deliver a cashier's check for $60,000, as well as a letter and an audiotape (both in Hindi), to his cousin Gurbeep "Gordy" Singh in London. After finally connecting with the elusive Gordy, Nick acc...



  • Baroni Vineyards is opening a new sparkling-wine facility. Private investigator Nick Polo tags along to the gala with reporter Jane Tobin. Amidst the fun, Nick takes a case at the behest of Angelo Baroni. Someone is sabotaging his vineyards: a tank o...



  • Volunteering at a local soup kitchen, private detective Nick Polo is asked by a homeless man to check up on certain generous benefactors, and when Scratchy is murdered, Polo finds suspects in a shipping magnate, an ex-CIA agent, and the Chinese Mafia...






  • One of the world's most ruthless terrorists plans a crime of unthinkable proportions against the unsuspecting people of San Francisco in Jerry Kennealy's tale of searing suspense. Mary Ariza knows all the ins and outs of the law and the lawless. It's...



  • Nick Polo's latest case finds him on familiar San Francisco turf where a Russian antiques dealer has hired him to locate Anna, the stunning holder of a valuable Mongol paitza - a dog tag of sorts originally worn by Ogodie Khan. Using no more than a d...



  • The action in Jerry Kennealy's latest thriller moves again at a lightning pace, as an acclaimed art collector is kidnapped, and her husband is the key suspect! The police think it's art fraud on a massive scale, and it's up to a falsely accused man t...



  • When a young immigrant girl witnesses a horrific murder, she barely escapes...with a vital piece of evidence. Investigating the crime is an intrepid female San Francisco police inspector who bucks the system when it suits her. Before long, the inspec...



  • Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • From Jerry Kennealy-an acclaimed author, former police officer and veteran P.I.-comes a thrilling new novel set in the high stakes world of art smuggling. A retired thief in the Witness Protection Program learns that there is no such thing as "protec...



  • A killer calling himself Thanatos, the Greek God of death, has been sending e-mails to entertainment critic Carroll Quint, taunting him with clues about his next target from Alfred Hitchcock movies. The victims were all friends of Quint: a screenwrit...



  • Entertainment critic and film noir author Carroll Quint gets a panicky call from his mother, former movie starlet Karen Kass. Vicky Vandamn, a roommate of Karen's some thirty years ago when they worked at Talbot Studios, disappeared from Hollywood un...



  • REVENGE WILL BE HIS MASTERPIECE When insurance investigator Robert Duran's wife, world-famous artist Anona Stack, succumbs to a terminal disease, his world is shattered. But when her body is stolen from the family crypt and the rosary beads she was b...



  • WHEN YOU'RE IN THIS DEEP, THERE'S ONLY ONE THING TO DO... CASH OUT. HERE'S THE STORY: San Francisco bookie Billy Rossi is more than $300,000 short. Some Chinatown thugs beat it out of him and his girlfriend, Sherri the showgirl. But who could he repo...






  • WHEN YOU CHASE THE DEVIL, YOU RISK CATCHING HELL... The author of The Vatican Connection returns with a new thriller as homicide detective Harry Dymes investigates a murder-and uncovers an international conspiracy that threatens to unleash biological...



  • A MAN IS KILLED ON A BEACH IN SPAIN. MISSING ARE HIS LAPTOP AND A SECRET DOCUMENT. THE LAPTOP CONTAINS MILITARY SOFTWARE THAT COULD CHANGE THE FACE OF WAR. THE DOCUMENT, CALLED THE PROFESSIO, CONTAINS A DECLARATION THAT COULD DESTROY THE CATHOLIC CHU...



  • Nick Polo is back in his eleventh adventure, once again helped along by his sidekick, the indomitable octogenarian self-described witch, Mrs. Damonte…

    Billionaire vintner Paul Bernier sets San Francisco ex-cop, ex-con, private eye Nick Polo...



  • Rough and tumble SFPD Inspector Johnny O’Rorke, the department’s Executive Protection Officer, has a new partner, Cosmo the Wonder Dog, a Lakeland terrier his sister has left in his care.

    O’Rorke is called to San Francisco City Hall to ...



  • A nail-biting thriller with a Hitchcock-style MacGuffin.

    When SFPD Homicide Inspector Nick Jarnac investigates the murder of a 19-year-old girl, missing for forty years, her skeleton found in the mud of a construction site near the remains of...



  • “I’m dying as fast as I can,” Gaby Maoret tells private investigator Nick Polo. “But it’s not fast enough for them.” Them are the two brothers of Gaucho Carmichael, Gaby’s former lover, who disappeared seven years ago, shortly after gra...



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    In April of 1968 Steve McQueen arrives in San Francisco to film Bullitt. Rough-and-tumble SFPD Inspector Johnny O’Rorke, aka The Fixer, is the department’s Executive Protection Officer. His job is to make sure that visiting celebrities are well t...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jerry Kennealy has published 27 books.

Jerry Kennealy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, I'm Dying As Fast As I Can, was published in March 2020.

The first book by Jerry Kennealy, Polo Solo, was published in July 1987.

Yes. Jerry Kennealy has 2 series.