Patricia Smiley

A Pacific Homicide

1 - Pacific Homicide (Nov-2016)
2 - Outside the Wire (Nov-2017)
3 - The Second Goodbye (Dec-2018)

A Tucker Sinclair Mystery

1 - False Profits (Nov-2004)
2 - Cover Your Assets (Nov-2005)
3 - Short Change (Jul-2007)
4 - Cool Cache (Jun-2008)

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  A Dark September Night
  

  • Aug-2025
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  The death of Emmaline McCoy's beloved aunt Lydie in a hit-an-run accident shatters her world. Granted two weeks of bereavement leave from her corporate Los Angeles job, Emma heads to the small Northern California coastal town of Justice Bay to settle...

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  The Second Goodbye
  

  • Dec-2018
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Pacific Homicide - 3
  

  Assume nothing―that's the touchstone for every homicide investigation Detective Davie Richards undertakes. She approaches her latest case the same way, determined to learn as much about the victim as she does about the killer. But there's nothing a...

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  Outside the Wire
  

  • Nov-2017
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Pacific Homicide - 2
  

  Homicide detective Davie Richards is called to an airport parking garage to investigate the shooting of a retired U.S. Army Ranger. Missing personal items point to a robbery, but Davie suspects a more sinister motive when she notices only one militar...

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  Pacific Homicide
  

  • Nov-2016
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Pacific Homicide - 1
  

  Most cops spend their entire careers without firing a weapon in the line of duty. LAPD Homicide Detective Davie Richards is an outlier, a cop who killed a suspect to save another officer’s life. While she waits for the police commission to rule ...

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  Cool Cache
  

  • Jun-2008
  • / Mystery
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  A Tucker Sinclair Mystery - 4
  

  To help her new chocolate shop flourish, gourmande Helen Taggart has hired Tucker Sinclair and Associates. (Tucker will admit that by "Associates," she means Eugene, an asthmatic young secretary and Dick Tracy wannabe.) Then one night, Tucker finds t...

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  Short Change
  

  • Jul-2007
  • / Mystery
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  A Tucker Sinclair Mystery - 3
  

  Management consultant Tucker Sinclair is trying to get her own firm off the ground in Los Angeles. But when you get mixed up in a private investigator's business, trouble is always a prospect.... Tucker Sinclair has finally escaped the oppressivel...

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  Cover Your Assets
  

  • Nov-2005
  • / Mystery
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  A Tucker Sinclair Mystery - 2
  

  Porsche-driving Tucker Sinclair roars back as feisty as ever in a thrilling new novel from acclaimed author Patricia Smiley. Here the L.A. financial whiz faces a mystery where secrets are liabilities--and a murderer will do anything to keep them hidd...

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  False Profits
  

  • Nov-2004
  • / Mystery
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  A Tucker Sinclair Mystery - 1
  

  Divorced management consultant Tucker Sinclair is on the fast track for a partnership at Aames & Associates. Sharing her just-north-of-Malibu-Beach cottage with her eccentric mother and a very annoying West Highland Terrier, Tucker gets a shot at wha...

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