Les Roberts

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Milan Jacovich Mystery

1 - Pepper Pike (Sep-1988)
2 - Full Cleveland (Nov-1989)
3 - Deep Shaker (May-1991)
4 - The Cleveland Connection (Feb-1993)
5 - The Lake Effect (Jan-1994)
6 - The Duke of Cleveland (Jun-1995)
7 - Collision Bend (Jun-1996)
8 - The Cleveland Local (Jun-1997)
9 - A Shoot in Cleveland (May-1998)
10 - The Best-Kept Secret (Jun-1999)
11 - Indian Sign (Jun-2000)
12 - The Dutch (Jun-2001)
13 - The Irish Sports Pages (Jun-2002)
14 - King of the Holly Hop (Jun-2008)
15 - The Cleveland Creep (May-2011)
16 - Whiskey Island (Aug-2012)

A Saxon Mystery

1 - The Pig Man (Dec-1999)
2 - An Infinite Number of Monkeys (Apr-1988)
3 - Not Enough Horses (Jan-1988)
4 - A Carrot for the Donkey (Mar-1989)
5 - Snake Oil (May-1990)
6 - Seeing the Elephant (Mar-1992)
7 - The Lemon Chicken Jones (Jan-1994)
8 - The Scent of Spiced Orange (Dec-2002)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • Not Enough Horses

    A Saxon Mystery - 3

    Les Roberts, the award winning Private Eye Writer, continues the series of mysteries in this adventure set in Hollywood, from the boardrooms of network television to the netherworld of dimly-lit bars. Screen actor Saxon, moonlighting as a detective, ...

  • An Infinite Number of Monkeys

    A Saxon Mystery - 2

    Details the life and career of a private superstar--his years of struggle, his pivotal "Star Wars" role, his heartbreak and new love, and the box-office smash hits that required great acting and courage...

  • Pepper Pike

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 1

    P.I. Milan Jacovich is a private investigator with a master's degree, an ex-wife, a penchant for Kolbasa sandwiches, and a habit for finding trouble. What begins as a simple bodyguard job turns into the mysterious disappearance of advertising hotshot...

  • A Carrot for the Donkey

    A Saxon Mystery - 4

    #3 in the Saxon mystery series. Hotshot producer Mark Evering can’t understand why his daughter has run off with a shady lawyer twice her age when her father has given her everything—including a Betty Ford detox for her high-school grad...

  • Full Cleveland

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 2

    #2 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . .

    Polyester leisure suit, white patent leather shoes, matching white belt―that 1970s fashion statement was once unkindly dubbed the “full Cleveland.” And no one wears it with more flair and ...

  • Snake Oil

    A Saxon Mystery - 5

    Actor-private detective Saxon reluctantly takes on the case of real-estate developer George Amptman, who suspects his wife of having an affair, but the case takes a dark turn when the woman's lover is found dead...

  • Deep Shaker

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 3

    MILAN JACOVICH -- CLEVELAND'S FAVORITE PRIVATE EYE! No one is as loyal to old friends as Cleveland private investigator Milan Jacovich (it's pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovich). So when a grade school chum worries his son Paulie might be selling drugs, Mi...

  • The Scent of Spiced Oranges

    in Cat Crimes 2
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    From the pens of today's most prolific, popular, and feline-fancying mystery writers comes CAT CRIMES 2, a chilling collection of original stories that will leave cat- and mystery-lovers purring for more. Inside you'll encounter the Bogart drawl of P...

  • Seeing the Elephant

    A Saxon Mystery - 6

    #5 in the Saxon mystery series. Saxon returns to his hometown, Chicago, where one of his oldest pals, cop Gavin Cassidy, has died of a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol in a cheap hotel. Saxon arrives for the funeral to find his old crowdȁ...



  • The Cleveland Connection

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 4

    Presents the true account of Martha Brailsford, a talented young artist, and her violent struggle with a sadistic, sociopathic, neighborhood killer, which ended in death on a dark and lonely Salem night. Originally published as Counterpoint. ...

  • The Lake Effect

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 5

    When moisture gathers over a large lake, the result is snow--fast, heavy, fishtail flakes that seem to white-out every sin and crime. Milan Jacovich knows better. So when the local mob calls in a favor he owes, he's off to the Cleveland suburb of Lak...

  • The Lemon Chicken Jones

    A Saxon Mystery - 7

    #6 in the Saxon mystery series. Saxon is hired to find the missing wife of an aging Borscht Belt comedian. Nappy Kane is a dinosaur, telling stale jokes about women drivers. His career is on the rocks, his bank balance is dwindling—even his ag...

  • The Duke of Cleveland

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 6

    When a young, rather feckless heiress hires Milan Jacovich to find her middle-aged lover--not because she wants him back but because he owes her $18,000--he's thrust among artists and would-be artists who frequent the Coventry section of Cleveland he...

  • Collision Bend

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 7

    Shock waves ride through the city of Cleveland when up-and-coming local television reporter Virginia Carville is found strangled to death in her home. Even more surprising is when Mary Soderberg, the station's top sales executive, implores P.I. Milan...

  • The Cleveland Local

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 8

    A vacation to die for

    When hot shot Cleveland real estate attorney Joel Kerner Jr. is killed on a Caribbean holiday, only his angry sister Patrice thinks it's more than a botched robbery. The island police have nothing and the Cleveland cops d...

  • A Shoot in Cleveland

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 9

    THE DEATH OF A LADYKILLER Who killed the superstar? P.I. Milan Jacovich, still grieving from the death of his oldest friend, is obligated to find out. After all, he'd been hired to "babysit" twenty-something Hollywood hunk Darren Anderson while hi...

  • The Best-Kept Secret

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 10

    For Cleveland P.I. Milan Jacovich, murder is still just a living...he hopes.

    A debt to an old friend puts Milan Jacovich in the middle of a sensitive case that's hurting his bank account and his love life. Jason Crowell, an eighteen-year-old c...

  • The Pig Man

    in First Cases Volume 3
    A Saxon Mystery - 1

    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...

  • Indian Sign

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 11

    Need a private eye? None better than Milan Jacovich.

    Milan Jacovich, Roberts's likable Cleveland sleuth, has investigated college campuses and labor unions, middle-European rivalries and small-town elections. Two of the very most affecting, h...



  • Laughter of Children

  • The Dutch

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 12

    Milan Jacovich, Cleveland's most popular private investigator, specializes in industrial security, but when another type of case comes up that is too good to resist he will agree to work on it. That is exactly what happens when Professor Carnine walk...

  • The Chinese Fire Drill

  • The Irish Sports Pages

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 13

    #13 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . .

    A slick con man, posing as a recent immigrant from County Mayo all alone in America, is preying on the clannish loyalties of the Irish community in Cleveland for gifts, money, and other less tangib...

  • The Scent of Spiced Orange

    A Saxon Mystery - 8

  • We'll Always Have Cleveland

    “Mystery readers, particularly of Cleveland and Clevelanders in general, should enjoy Roberts’ exploration of the city. Aspiring writers should enjoy his techniques and his dedication as a new mystery is born.” -- Ohioana Quarterly“Les Robe...

  • The Poison Plum

    The Poison Plum is a gripping, chilling novel exposing the rampaging epidemic of Lyme Disease now sweeping across America and the disease's connection, if any, to the government's top-secret biological research laboratory at Plum Island, New York....

  • King of the Holly Hop

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 14

    MILAN JACOVICH -- CLEVELAND'S FAVORITE PRIVATE EYE! Going to your high school reunion is never fun. But this time, it's murder. When Cleveland private eye Milan Jacovich reluctantly attends the fortieth reunion of his St. Clair High School graduati...

  • The Cleveland Creep

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 15

    #15 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . .

    A simple missing-person case gets complicated when Milan Jacovich (pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovich) discovers that 28-year-old Earl Dacey left behind a strange collection of voyeuristic videos in ...

  • The Strange Death of Father Candy

    Vietnam veteran Dominick Candiotti has been long estranged from his family. His late parents were close to the ruling mob clan in Youngstown, his sister was a bad-tempered and dissatisfied nag, and his middle brother was a corruptible police lieutena...



  • A Carol for Cleveland

  • Whiskey Island

    A Milan Jacovich Mystery - 16

    #16 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . .

    An oversized appetite for fine dining, flashy suits, and Las Vegas call girls has made Cleveland councilman Bert Loftus the target of media scrutiny and an FBI investigation that may end his car...

  • Win, Place, or Die

    The sudden death of a client leads private investigator Milan Jacovich (MY-lan YOCK-ovitich) and new associate Kevin "K.O." O'Bannion behind the scenes at a harness racing track, where they find no shortage of odd characters, suspicious activities...

  • Wet Work

    Dominick Candiotti is a paid assassin employed by the shadowy Brownstone Agency. But after one too many assignments, weary of the violence and a life of temporary identities, he wants to leave the profession. His anonymous boss, code-named “Og,...

  • The Ashtabula Hat Trick

    The people of Queenstown, Ohio, don’t take kindly to strangers. But they have no choice in the matter after a man’s body is found in a local park, pants unzipped and stabbed through the heart―and a second man’s body turns up days later, hi...

  • Sheehan's Dog

    Former Irish mafia hitman Brock Sheehan lives quietly on a boat fifty miles from Cleveland. His retirement angered the mob boss and his former job caused the Sheehan family to disown him. But when his long-lost nephew, Linus Callahan, tracks him down...

  • The C.I.

    Slovenian-American Jericho Paich finds himself under arrest by snarling Cleveland police cop Keenan Mayo and forced to be a non-paid confidential informant, setting up friends and strangers to be hauled in for illegal drug use. He turns for help to h...

  • An Only Child

    Russell Reinhart, a well-known author of private eye novels, is released from the Illinois State Prison in Joliet after serving seven years for the involuntary manslaughter of his wife. He returns to Chicago, welcomed home by his top-flight attorney ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Les Roberts has published 37 books.

Les Roberts does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, An Only Child, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Les Roberts, Not Enough Horses, was published in January 1988.

Yes. Les Roberts has 2 series.
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