The sun warmed the sand as Hooker and Stacy prepared for their seaside outing. A brief fire, however, served as a distraction, long enough for Chrissie to vanish. She had been taken by Marty Latham, a disillusioned former police officer con…

He was a man adrift, caught between the mundane and the brutal. A detective named Hooker, he navigated the city's underbelly with a weary grace. When his father, a retired police officer and a man whose health was as fragile as his bones, u…

The news arrived like a physical blow: a local officer, a man known to the family as Hooker, had been shot dead in a grocery store. A shadow fell over his widow and son, and a promise echoed in the aftermath – a vow from Hooker's old frien…

A young woman is fatally injured during the production of an adult film. The discovery of her body reveals a connection to Detective Max Brodsky, a colleague of the deceased's former partner. Brodsky, consumed by a desire for justice, becom…

He sought out the man haunted by war, a former comrade consumed by a darkness that threatened to spill onto foreign soil. A trained executioner, broken and adrift, now plotted a deadly act against a visiting Russian delegation. The task was…

Hooker found himself embroiled in an FBI operation, a carefully orchestrated "sting" that culminated in a devastating hospital visit for an undercover detective and the brutal demise of the drug ring’s intermediary at the hands of the front…

Detective Corrigan, along with Hooker and Stacy, participated in a stakeout targeting a money counterfeiting operation. A tragic accident occurred during the operation; Corrigan inadvertently shot and killed an informant in the crossfire, w…

Hooker surveyed the scene, the grim tableau a familiar horror. The precision of the attack, the chilling signature – it was the work of the Night Ripper. Four years had passed since the Ripper's last confirmed kill, a string of six brutal m…

The call was about a parking violation, a minor infraction. But for Detectives Corrigan and Stacy, it unravelled into something far more dangerous. What began as a routine inquiry regarding an illegally parked vehicle quickly spiraled into …

He was a man adrift, haunted by echoes of a past love. The world seemed to narrow to the cold steel of a car, the crimson stain within, and the whispered word: dead. Karen Remy, her name a phantom in his memory, now a ghost demanding justic…

Stacy sustained a concussion during a confrontation, and following her release from the hospital, resolved to visit her sister. However, while driving through a severe thunderstorm, still somewhat disoriented, she was involved in a minor tr…

The sting operation was underway, Corrigan and Stacy immersed in their roles as undercover agents targeting a human trafficking ring. But the carefully constructed plan fractured when an alarm blared from a nearby bank – an armed robbery in…

The third woman attorney to die in such a manner spurred Hooker, Stacy, and Corrigan to seek out the killer – a man consumed by bitterness after his girlfriend was deemed mentally unstable and expelled from law school. When a female att…

The crash was imminent. Moments before the patrol car erupted in flames, Corrigan pulled an unconscious Stacy from the wreckage. The violent thieves, now the focus of a desperate hunt, thrust Stacy and Corrigan into an ordeal that forged an…

The tranquility of the baseball game shattered with a gunshot. A man strolling with his daughter was struck, an attempted execution unfolding before horrified eyes. The victim was Russ Paterno, a retired mobster now working as an informant …

Hooker was escorting a captured criminal to the Federal courthouse when he encountered Senator Grayle, an old acquaintance. A bomb, meant for the Senator, detonated instead. Hooker’s quick action saved the Senator’s life. At the Senator's r…

With Howie Kalanuma dead, Hooker’s resolve hardened. He was now even more determined to unmask the gang responsible for the threats against Senator Grayle and his wife.

During a stakeout, Hooker finds himself compelled to shoot a hired assassin, left wondering who he was meant to kill. Shortly thereafter, security guard Bill Kennedy, a former officer, is fatally shot during an armed robbery at an airport c…

Detective Corrigan felt a weight settle upon him, heavier than any case he’d faced. It began with a simple errand: Jennifer, his niece, tasked with selecting a gift for her uncle's twenty-fifth year on the force. She was sent to a jewelry s…