A Good Bunch of Men
Dead prostitutes can seem like part of the landscape in South Los Angeles. What, then, could render two veteran homicide detectives speechless as they stand over their latest victim?
Tightly-wound Dickie Jones and his smart and cocky partner, Matt “Pretty Boy Floyd” Tyler, find themselves entangled with gang members and a sexy drug dealer as they uncover a nefarious plot rife with greed, sex, and betrayal.
Can law enforcement’s “odd couple” survive fights, shootouts, and a sniper who wants them dead? What about their wives, and their captain, all of whom have had it with them both?
A Good Bunch of Men will have you laughing, gasping, and craving the next in the Dickie Floyd Detective series.
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Door to a Dark Room
The City of Santa Clarita is considered safe until a decapitated woman is discovered in the car of a missing realtor. When detectives home in on her wealthy husband, a mystery begins to unravel.
L.A. Sheriff’s Homicide Detective Dickie Jones has returned to work after recovering from gunshot wounds. His wife has left him, and his partner, Matt “Pretty Boy Floyd” Tyler, has been assigned a new partner. A serial killer is on the loose, which might be just the diversion Dickie needs. When he and Floyd are reunited to hunt the killer, all seems right in his world—until the veteran detectives discover that Dickie is next on the killer’s list.
Door to a Dark Room travels beyond the yellow tape into the hearts, souls, and tormented minds of those who hunt evil.
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Echo Killers
Los Angeles, 2018. A runaway boy claims to have witnessed a murder. The story seems farfetched, but Floyd takes the case. Unsure, he turns to his old partner for a second opinion.
But Dickie has problems of his own. He has been assigned a new partner, a good cop but one with a checkered past. It’s the last thing Dickie needs, regardless of how sexy she happens to be. When the two are sent to investigate a murder in Compton, Dickie recognizes the similarities to Floyd’s new case.
Army investigators descend on South Los Angeles in search of AWOL soldiers, while Dickie and Floyd close in on the killers. Are their paths set to collide?
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Death After Dishonor
A string of murders. A missing woman. A disturbing thread that binds them…
Los Angeles detective Dickie Jones won’t rest until every low-life is locked up. Off the clock, he’s helping his newly recovered partner take down the man who held her hostage. But on the job, he’s consumed by the notorious murder of the mayor’s son.
While Dickie fleshes out possible leads, the victim’s long-time friend is found dead. Suspecting a link between the killings, he unearths evidence of a heinous sex crime and the girl who’s key to cracking the case. But before he can confirm his suspicions, she disappears…
Will Dickie locate his star witness and arrest the killer before another body falls?
Death After Dishonor is book five in the thrilling Dickie Floyd Detective mystery series, written by a former homicide investigator. If you like high-octane action, wry humor, and hard-boiled detectives, then you’ll love Danny R. Smith’s authentic police procedural novel.
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The First Felony: A Dickie Floyd Detective Novel
They weren't supposed to be in Mexico, but they went anyway. Twice. Can they survive a trip across the border where the cartel is none too happy to see them?
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The Outlaw: A Rich Farris Detective Novel
A traumatized ex-cop. A ruthless ex-con. A deadly game of cat and mouse…
Rich Farris is on the brink of suicide. Suffering from PTSD and on a downward spiral since retiring from L.A. Sheriff’s Homicide, he’s just about to end it all when a phone call spurs him to action. The daughter of a distant family member has gone missing. Farris shifts into rescue mode and races to Louisiana, only to learn the girl’s been found dead… in Boise, Idaho.
Joined—whether he wants to be or not—by the victim’s bright young friend, Farris heads to the Gem State determined to bring the murderer to justice. But the trail of bodies quickly extends from Idaho into Nevada and California, and he fears he’ll never capture his deadly quarry.
Can the damaged former lawman stop a stone-cold killer before he takes more innocent lives?
From the author of the best-selling and award-winning Dickie Floyd Detective series, The Outlaw is the brooding first installment in the Rich Farris Detective series. If you like hard-boiled mysteries, nail-biting manhunts, and authentic, complex characters, then you’ll love Smith’s action-packed detective novels.
NOTHING LEFT TO PROVE
He landed his dream job pursuing the guilty, but two decades of horrific violence and a steady stream of death left him scarred…
From a stint at the notorious county jail to a decade on the streets of South Los Angeles, to going undercover before making the grade in the elite homicide bureau, former L.A. County Sheriff’s detective Danny R. Smith put his life on the line for twenty-one years.
His career covered some of L.A.’s darkest hours: a crack cocaine epidemic, unprecedented gang warfare, a spike in homicides that stunned the nation, flames lighting the skies while gunfire rang through the nights during the Rodney King riots. There were deadly encounters: fights, pursuits, shootings, and a beating that left him unconscious. A confrontation with a murderous gangster in a dark alley, where only the miraculous malfunction of a fully automatic weapon saved his life.
Hardened by the years spent on the streets and the hundreds of deaths and untold numbers of tragedies he would witness, Smith’s frustrations with a dysfunctional system weighed heavily, and his continued pledge to see justice for the victims came at an astronomical personal cost.
In this no-holds-barred memoir, Smith reveals the shocking imagery of fallen colleagues, murdered children, gang warfare, and a Native American who was tortured and burned alive by skinheads. And through his unique insights battling PTSD and being forced to leave the profession he loved, his story will offer new insight into the aftermath of working in law enforcement.
Nothing Left to Prove is by turns shocking, terrifying, poignant, and thought-provoking. It’s the very personal story of one man’s career and its effect on his life afterwards, unveiled through Smith’s masterful storytelling. If you think you know cops, if you love compelling true-crime stories, then you’ll love Danny R. Smith’s powerful narrative.
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10-33 Go!
South Central Los Angeles – 1985.
Gentrification is decades away. The streets, alleys, and parks are besieged by rival gang members. They no longer fight with knives and chains but now kill each other—and many innocent bystanders—with modern and more deadly weapons: AK-47s, Mac-10s, and Uzi machine pistols. Citizens live in fear behind barred windows. Children sleep on the floor to avoid stray bullets, their mothers huddled next to them.
And the cops of Firestone station put themselves in harm’s way to make life a little bit safer for the vulnerable.
Raised on the mean streets of Compton, veteran patrol deputy Tony Delgado, along with his partner, Larry Scampton, make it their mission to find would-be cop killer Terrell “T-rock” Young, who is responsible for the death of a little girl. When Delgado and Scampton take their trainees to the projects to hunt for him, they come under fire. Is T-rock lying in wait for them?
10-33 Go! is an action-packed, standalone street cop novel by best-selling author Danny R. Smith. If you enjoy authentic police procedurals written by someone who lived the life, you’ll love this riveting tale of tough cops and the hardcore gangsters they pursue.
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