Richard Helms

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2000
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Eamon Gold PI

1 - Grass Sandal (Jan-2005)
2 - Cordite Wine (Dec-2005)

A Judd Wheeler Mystery

1 - Six Mile Creek (Apr-2010)
2 - Thunder Moon (Jun-2011)
3 - Older Than Goodbye (Oct-2014)

Pat Gallegher

1 - Joker Poker (May-2000)
2 - Voodoo That You Do (Oct-2001)
3 - Juicy Watusi (Jun-2002)
4 - Wet Debt (May-2003)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Joker Poker

    Pat Gallegher - 1

    Pat Gallegher, oversized cornet player, former forensic psychologist, and all-around gruff-but-lovable hard nose, plays nights in a French Quarter jazz club. He also works as an enforcer for a loan shark to whom he owes a gambling habit. When a wealt...

  • Voodoo That You Do

    Pat Gallegher - 2

    The second book in the Pat Gallegher Mystery Series. Gallegher tries to solve the murder of his friend Hotshot Spano, and protect the young stepdaughter of a Vietnamese gang member. Hot action and cool jazz in New Orleans' French Quarter!...

  • Amadeus Legacy

    Twelve years ago, Geoffrey Sterling helped depose an American president, but lost everything he held dear. After hiding from life for twelve years at a small Maryland college, he is assigned to interview the author of a tell-all book about the inner ...

  • Valentine Profile

    Charleston psychologist Mark Lovell considered Judge Matthew Valentine to be a good choice for the US Senate -- until he found a psychiatric chart for the judge on a colleague's desk. The information in the chart suggested dark psychological problems...

  • Juicy Watusi

    Pat Gallegher - 3

    Set in New Orleans, Juicy Watusi features Helms' creation Pat Gallegher - failed seminarian, retired forensic psychologist, disgraced college professor, who now makes a living playing jazz cornet in a dive bar off Toulouse Street in the French Quarte...

  • Wet Debt

    Pat Gallegher - 4

    The fourth book in Richard Helms' Pat Gallegher Mystery Series. Gallegher investigates the seventy year old murder of a man found entombed in a concrete floor next to Holliday's, and discovers that this murder is deviously connected with his own rece...

  • Bobby J.

  • Grass Sandal

    Eamon Gold PI - 1

    First book in two-time Shamus Award nominee Richard Helms' new Eamon Gold PI series, set in modern-day San Francisco. Noted trial attorney Taylor Chu has been brutally murdered and dropped at the base of the Bay Bridge. The local media are filled wit...

  • Cordite Wine

    Eamon Gold PI - 2

    Second book in the Eamon Gold P.I. series by two-time Shamus Award nominee Richard Helms. Eamon Gold is approached by Napa Valley winery heir Asa Corona to help stop people who are blackmailing him with pictures taken in a San Francisco gay bathhouse...



  • Six Mile Creek

    A Judd Wheeler Mystery - 1

    Prosperty, North Carolina, police chief Judd Wheeler investigates after the body of a young illegal Mexican girl is found along the banks of Six Mile Creek, an investigation that pits Wheeler against his closest childhood friend and ignites racial an...

  • The Daedalus Deception

    A new thriller from three-time Shamus Award Nominee and Two-Time Derringer Award Winner Richard Helms! Imagine returning home from a business trip to find that your agoraphobic wife has disappeared, along with every trace of evidence that you had bee...

  • Thunder Moon

    A Judd Wheeler Mystery - 2

    Tempers flare during the searing summer months in rural Prosperity, North Carolina. A series of apparently unrelated crimes unified by a single vengeful entity that has descended on Prosperity like a suffocating black cloud. The bodies begin to pile ...

  • The Unresolved Seventh

    Ben Long never intended to practice forensic psychology again after his sudden retirement four years earlier. His friend Sidney Kingsley, the new DA, had other plans. Junior Torrence has been charged with murder. His attorney has hired a psychologist...

  • The Mojito Coast

    Fans of Randy Wayne White, James W. Hall, and Robert B. Parker will love this action-packed private eye adventure! On the eve of the 1958 Cuban Revolution, Miami private eye Cormac Loame reluctantly returns to Havana to retrieve the teenaged daughter...

  • Older Than Goodbye

    A Judd Wheeler Mystery - 3

    Being police chief in tiny Prosperity‚ North Carolina‚ typically meant that Judd Wheeler mostly handed out traffic tickets and quelled the occasional domestic dispute. Being shot during a routine investigation changed all that. Within weeks of Wh...

  • Paid In Spades

    Thriller Award-winning knight-errant Pat Gallegher (Juicy Watusi, Wet Debt) returns in this steamy, action-drenched New Orleans tale. A failed seminarian, retired forensic psychologist, and disgraced college professor, Gallegher left security behi...

  • Brittle Karma

    EAMON GOLD IS THE REAL DEAL, a City-by-the-Bay ex-cop turned private dick with a taste for Glenlivet, Spenseresque wisecracks and tossing darts around his office... he's your basic meat-and-potatoes eye and his creator, Richard Helms, is simply one h...

  • SWEEPS WEEK

    • / Private Investigator
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  • Doctor Hate

    Eamon Gold is the real deal, a City-by-the-Bay ex-cop turned private dick with a taste for Glenlivet, Spenseresque wisecracks and tossing darts around his office... he's your basic meat-and-potatoes eye and his creator, Richard Helms, is simply one h...



  • A Kind and Savage Place

    It's 1954. The place is Prosperity, North Carolina, a small farming community in Bliss County. Three teenagers, the 1953 championship-winning offensive backfield for Prosperity High, and lifelong friends, are unwilling participants in a horrific even...

  • Paper Walls / Glass Houses

    For the first time, collected in a single volume, Black Arch Books is proud to present the short crime fiction of Derringer, Macavity, Shamus, and Thriller Award-winning author Richard Helms!Paper Walls/Glass Houses (2008 Derringer Award Winner)The G...

  • Vicar Brekonridge

    On a frigid January day on London's Whitehall in 1843, a Scottish woodturner named Daniel M'Naghten guns down Edward Drummond, believing him to be British Prime Minister Robert Peel. M'Naghten, who sympathizes with the Chartist cause in Great Britain...

  • Everybody Loves A Hero

    Trauma-bonded kindred spirits Wes Valentine and Tyler Gill try to support one another in the face of incessant high school bullying. The principal and administrators won’t intervene because the bullies are star athletes. Counselor Sam Bazewell ...

Award-Winning Books by Richard Helms

Brittle Karma
2021 Shamus Award -- Paperback Original P.I. Novel
SWEEPS WEEK
2022 Macavity Award -- Mystery Short Story
2022 Shamus Award -- P.I. Short Story


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Helms has published 23 books.

Richard Helms does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Everybody Loves A Hero, was published in March 2024.

The first book by Richard Helms, Joker Poker, was published in May 2000.

Yes. Richard Helms has 3 series.
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