Max R. Tomlinson

A Colleen Hayes Mystery

1 - Vanishing in the Haight (Aug-2019)
2 - Tie Die (Sep-2020)
3 - Bad Scene (Aug-2021)

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  Sendero
  

  • Apr-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  The Truth Doesn't Always Set You Free. In 1987, the dirty war that will last twelve years and kill thirty thousand Peruvians finally reaches up through the Andean cloud forest for Nina and her family. Nina's father is shot by soldiers, her mother rap...

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  Out by the Trees
  

  • Dec-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  Short Dark Fiction ...
  What does a child's first memory have to do with an Indian girl whose brother has just joined a terrorist group? What does a man in a dark Midwestern house have in common with a teenager running from the Buenos Aires Police...

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  Who Sings to the Dead
  

  • Feb-2013
  • / Mystery
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  Who can you trust in a country haunted by its past?
  On the hunt for an abducted Indian beggar girl, Peruvian National Police officer Nina Flores is determined to track down the suspected kidnapper, a man who resembles what the locals call pishtac...

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  Lethal Dispatch
  

  • Jan-2014
  • / Thriller
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  When the soldiers shot her father, a sixteen-year-old girl took an oath - and the name the rebels gave her: Inez. 'Inez' avenged her father. Afterwards, she was ready to move on. But it wasn't that simple. They said she couldn't just walk away. 'Inez...

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  The Cain File
  

  • Feb-2016
  • / Thriller
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  The Quito assignment was meant to be a milk run for Special Forensic Accounting Agent Maggie de la Cruz: just hand over the two-million-dollar payoff and get the signatures of a corrupt oil minister and two oil-company bigwigs. Then stand back while ...

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  Vanishing in the Haight
  

  • Aug-2019
  • / Mystery
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  A Colleen Hayes Mystery - 1
  

  USA Today best-selling author An ex-con traces a victim's clues to set a cold case ablazeBetween fending off a lecherous parole officer and trying to get by in 1978 San Francisco, private investigator Colleen Hayes struggles to put her life back toge...

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  Tie Die
  

  • Sep-2020
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Colleen Hayes Mystery - 2
  

  USA Today best-selling authorWhen the music stopped, it was murder Back in London's swinging '60s, Steve Cook was teen idol number one. But that changed when a sixteen-year-old fan was found dead in his hotel room bed. Steve's career came to a crashi...

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  Bad Scene
  

  • Aug-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Colleen Hayes Mystery - 3
  

  USA Today Best-Selling Author1978 San Francisco -- a cult leader in Ecuador -- one woman's struggle to reconnect with her lost daughter before it is too lateWhen PI and ex-con, Colleen Hayes, learns that a local neo-Nazi group is talking about shooti...

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  Line of Darkness
  

  • Aug-2022
  • / Police Procedural
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  Post-war darkness may be the darkest of them all -- Nazi-hunters reach deep into 1979 San Francisco When a German businesswoman in 1979 San Francisco hires ex-con PI Colleen Hayes to find a missing relative, supposedly in town to visit, she thinks it...

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  Night Candy
  

  • Jul-2023
  • / Police Procedural
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  1970s San Francisco: the sights, the sounds, the serial killersAs the ’70s draw to a close in San Francisco, things do not bode well for the city -- or for ex-con PI Colleen Hayes, whose daughter Pam, in a tragic turn of events, has lost her baby. ...

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  The Darknet File
  

  • / Thriller
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  Agent Maggie de la Cruz's problems are just beginning when a high-ranking defector from Jihad Nation doesn't show up for a secret meeting in Paris. Suicide bombers appear instead. And when the woman who snared Kafka, the defector, is killed in the at...

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