Bridgehampton, NY: Bridge Works Publishing, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel in the uncommon and award-winning Ellis Portal series featuring a disgraced judge, the son of Italian immigrants, who was homeless and living in a makeshift shelter in a river valley that is a wilderness preserve running through the center of Toronto. In this, he is recruited by the Toronto police after a movie director is gunned down and his teenage daughter disappears. SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 1-882593448.

New York: Dutton, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Crime novel featuring New York assistant DA Alexandria Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace. Frontispiece map. 381 pp. ISBN: 978-0525951612.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourteenth thriller in the award winning Cork OÕConnor series. "When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a deadly mythical beast, the Windigo, or a vengeful spirit called Michi Peshu. At the request of the Arceneaux family, Cork OÕConnor, former sheriff turned private investigator, takes on the case and puts enough information together to find a possible trail. He learns that the old port city of Duluth is a modern-day center for sex trafficking of vulnerable women, many of whom are young Native Americans." 339 pp. ISBN: 978-1476749235.