Shelley Singer is the author of ten mysteries, two science fiction novels, one mainstream fiction, and many short stories. Her novels are full of surprising twists, and sharp-edged humor. With her fast-paced action and decisive, strong-minded characters theses novels are always a great read! Enjoy!
Torch Song: A Kickass Heroine, A Post-Apocalyptic World: Book One Of The Blackjack Trilogy
Shelley Singer
Genre: Gay & Lesbian | Science Fiction | Teen & Young Adult
IT’S 2066. AND YOU CAN’T TRUST ANYBODY…
Rica Marin’s a mercenary—a hired gun, soldier, and spy who answers only to whoever can keep her in the meds she and her only living relative need to survive the plagues that scourge the earth after biological warfare’s wiped out pretty much everything.
It’s a strange world that’s left—composed of tiny city-states like Redwood, Sierra, and Rocky—run with a variety of futuristic machines and broken-down ones. Fancy new cars float as well as roll, but the Internet’s now so glitchy you can’t even blog properly—newspapers have come back! So many machines are in disrepair that a fixer in this world isn’t someone who rigs elections or cleans up after murders—it’s a person who can repair both an elevator and an ancient toilet. But roving bands of bandits, godders, causies, breeders, khakis, and toxies threaten to destroy what’s just been fixed.
Anywhere there are people—however few—there’ll be power plays, and Rica’s current job at the Blackjack Casino is to run interference between the warring clans of Tahoe, in tiny Sierra. But then the city-state of Rocky gets ambitious. And that means war.
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Samson’s Deal: A Laid-Back Bay Area Mystery (The Jake Samson & Rosie Vicente Detective Series Book 1)
Shelley Singer
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Gay & Lesbian
Samson’s Deal is the FIRST cozy mystery in the Jake Samson and Rosie Vicente detective series by award-winning author Shelley Singer.
MURDER, POLITICS, AND STRANGE BEDFELLOWS…
Ex-Chicago-cop Jake Samson is tired of the rat race. He’s living in laid back Oakland, California with a couple of cats and just enough savings to eat canned oysters and accept collect calls from his bemused parents, when an old friend–a progressive political science processor–calls with an enticing offer. Seems the professor’s wife was found dead in the backyard of their Berkeley home, and he wants to pay Jake ten thousand dollars (plus expenses) to figure out whodunit.
The police pick up the usual leads; jealousy, dirty politics, and an estate worth killing for. Naturally, since the professor is the dead woman’s spouse, he’s the primary suspect. Samson doesn’t like the guy much, but the case heats up—quite literally—when the professor’s office is set afire by a radical right wing activist group, of which, it turns out, the wife was a member.
With his good friend Rosie, and her justice-dispensing two-by-four, Samson follows a twisted trail leads through the Bay Area’s bizarre cultural labyrinth; from pop meditation ashrams to neo-Nazi rallies, to the startling, but all too human truth.
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Free Draw (The Jake Samson & Rosie Vicente Detective Series Book 2)
Shelley Singer
Genre: Gay & Lesbian | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
The SECOND laid-back, cozy mystery in the Jake Samson and Rosie Vicente detective series.
A Nice Jewish Boy, His Lesbian BFF, and MURDER MOST MARIN…
Unafraid, unlicensed, and, in this case, unpaid, unofficial Bay Area P.I. Jake Samson and his carpenter sidekick Rosie set out to clear a friend of a murder charge. The victim is found stabbed to death in a damp redwood canyon in woodsy, wealthy Marin County, outside San Francisco. It’s up to Jake and Rosie to find the real killer, and they’ve got a number of suspects: the victim’s fellow executives at a questionable correspondence school, his divided and bitter family, and his quirky Marin County neighbors–a truly odd assortment of California woods dwellers.
But the real treats here are Singer’s dry humor and her characters: Jake, a nice Jewish boy with a rebellious–and very witty–streak; and Rosie, an irresistible twist on the sassy gay friend. Readers will love their easy, breezy relationship, and wish they had a friend like either one of them.
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Spit In The Ocean: A Laid-Back Bay Area Mystery (The Jake Samson & Rosie Vicente Detective Series Book 4)
Shelley Singer
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Gay & Lesbian
The FOURTH lively adventure in the Jake Samson and Rosie Vicente mystery series.
IT WAS A JOB THE BARROW GANG MIGHT HAVE ENVIED…
The vault emptied out, not a shot fired. In fact, it resembled a burglary more than a bank job, but when you rob a sperm bank, that’s sometimes all it takes. Here’s the set-up: The North Coast Sperm Bank in tiny Wheeler, California has been knocked over, and the perp’s tossed its assets in the ocean, leaving a religious-nut note of explanation. Just a prank, says Wheeler law enforcement. But the bank says: Not so fast, that stuff was valuable!
Enter P.I. Jake Samson and his ever-sharp Watson, Rosie Vicente, hired by the bank to find out who made the unauthorized withdrawal. No sooner have they dragged their bedraggled Bay Area selves into the storm even now brutalizing Wheeler than a bank employee slips in the mud and falls to her death.
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Suicide King (The Jake Samson & Rosie Vicente Detective Series Book 5)
Shelley Singer
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Gay & Lesbian
Suicide King is the FIFTH cozy mystery in the Jake Samson and Rosie Vicente detective series.
Laid-back P.I. Jake Samson’s never been a big fan of politics: fun and profitable if you understand the game, futile and frustrating if you don’t. But his longtime friend and (unlicensed) sidekick Rosie Vicente invites him to a posh California fundraiser for the energetic gubernatorial candidate of the liberal underdog Vivo party. Hearing that Joe Richmond’s charisma rivals JFK’s, Jake can’t resist. And what’s worse, Jake’s actually impressed by Richmond’s rhetoric and charm. It’s all fun and political games until Pam Sutherland, Richmond’s aide, finds her boss in her backyard, hanging naked from an acacia tree.
The police rule the death a suicide; Jake and Pam suspect foul play. Pam quickly hires Jake to find the culprit, leading him through an intriguing web of campaign shenanigans, backroom wheeling and dealing, affairs, a possible German mafia connection, and a fair amount more danger than our hero could possibly have imagined.
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