Patrick Ian O'Donnell

A Phil and Paula Oxnard Mystery

Ortega Night (Dec-2000)
A Wrathful Vintage (Aug-2011)

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  Ortega Night
  

  • Dec-2000
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Phil and Paula Oxnard Mystery
  

  Newly retired Phil Oxnard's fear of boredom in retirement galvanizes him to investigate the death of George Moss, a neighbor killed in a presumed automobile accident. Phil's investigation takes him from his home in San Juan Capistrano to Las Vegas, t...

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  Illicit Cargo
  

  • Jun-2005
  • / General Fiction
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  Port of Los Angeles Detective Sergeant Shake Jonson is on the trail of smugglers trading in illegal drugs, illegal aliens, and illegal weapons. Before he can identify the culprits, he finds he has gone from being the hunter to being the hunted. When ...

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  A Wrathful Vintage
  

  • Aug-2011
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Phil and Paula Oxnard Mystery
  

  Maliciously destroyed grapevines combined with the shotgun murder of a vineyard manager present P.I. Phil Oxnard with a double-barreled mystery. The investigation takes him and his wife, Paula, from Southern California's Temecula Valley to the vineya...

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  Death of an Oysterman
  

  • Jul-2013
  • / Mystery
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  Veteran homicide detective Blake Moyer comes out of retirement to join the police force in San Amaro, a small town on the Central California coast. On Moyer's first day on the job, George Garfield, owner of the Mollusks R Us oyster farm is murdered. ...

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  Final Words
  

  • Jun-2015
  • / Mystery
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  Freelance editor/writer Colin Gunderson is summoned to the family home in Pasadena by his uncle and former guardian, William Benton. When Colin arrives, he finds Bill on a couch, weakened by a stroke. Bill is transported to a local hospital where, be...

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  McCollum's Run
  

  • Dec-2018
  • / Mystery
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  Of Doggerel and the Dean
  

  • Dec-2018
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  Cold Case Closure
  

  • Feb-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  In many capital crimes in which no one has been convicted there has been little doubt in the minds of law enforcement personnel as to the identity of the perpetrator, who for lack of admissible evidence has never been brought to trial. In Cold Case C...

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