Bøker av Augustine Meijer

Still reluctantly filling in for the ailing Chief of Police and under pressure from the City Fathers to take the position permanently, North has his hands full as drug overdoses become rampant. How are the drugs getting into LaSalle Harbor, who is responsible, and what happens when Suzette is swept up in the problem? Another page-turner from a master storyteller.

The body of a merchant sailor is found washed up on the shores of LaSalle Harbor, and yet, no one has reported him missing. While investigating that murder, one of North's friends is killed and a secret life is exposed. Meijer's writing style is fresh and crisp, and Murder Unreported promises to be another page-turner from an author who has the ability to transport us back to the 50s.

When a Soviet Ballet company visits LaSalle Harbor, North is given the task of providing security. As his own demons from WWII come to a head, he must solve the murder of one of the dance company's ballerinas before it blows into an International diplomacy nightmare between the World's two superpowers.Pure North at his best!

Detective B. Richard North, "Brick" to his friends, is the lead detective of the LaSalle Harbor PD. In the Summer of '57, the body of a young blonde is discovered at Lakeland Airport. North is assigned to figure out who she is, how her body got to be dumped in a vacant hanger, and who killed her. While investigating that murder, another victim is pulled from the waves of Lake Michigan. Are the murders connected, and how is "Lucky" Como of the Chicago mob involved? North, damaged emotionally by the Second World War, and fettered by the ghosts of the past, sleeps too little and drinks too much."Those from SW Michigan will recognize the locales. Fans of the 50s will love the references.""Meijer deftly captures the 1950s era and small-town America.""A totally unique, somewhat flawed, occasionally crude, unpredictable but lovable detective.""In a time before there were cell phones, DNA testing, and modern forensics, there was Brick North."