QUINN CHECKS IN: A private detective with heart, humor ... and an uppercut!
Just the right balance of wit, action and back story... A solid story, witty dialog, fist fights, beautiful women, art, stolen beer kegs, a mob connection and a surprise ending. What could be better?
Smoothly written, convincingly voiced, fast-paced, gritty and fun.
From the opening lines of Quinn Checks In I was hooked. Literally, the opening sequence was so cleverly done that I knew I had see what else (Quinn) had to offer.
From Amazon best seller Ian Loome, meet Liam Quinn: He gave up a promising boxing career as a teenager to take up art… and then threw it all away with a career as a forger.
Now he’s out of prison, trying to make amends in Philadelphia’s Fishtown. His older brother the priest and his mother have forgiven him. His retired cop father and police officer brother? Not so much.
A family friend vouches for his private investigator license, though he can’t carry a gun due to his conviction. He’s working for an insurance company, repaying his court penalties. He’s spending what time he can with his childhood crush, the unattainable Nora Garcia de Soria.
But a Vermeer worth eight figures has been snatched from a local gallery. Can Liam catch a killer, find a Dutch master… and find a path to redemption?
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Liam Quinn returns! A former boxing rival is dead. Police say he overdosed. But Quinn doesn’t buy it. His friend’s death involves an athletic prodigy, and vultures are circling…
Quinn is up to his neck… quite literally, in the Arizona desert. A hippie wants his head, a dead wiseguy’s estate is plump pickings, and he had enough enemies to fill Phoenix…
Quinn’s new client is certifiably insane and years earlier, killed his parents. So when his “wife” goes “missing”, no one believes him or will help. Nobody but Liam Quinn…
Lonny Walters played some mean electric guitar. But not everyone was a fan, which is why the blues legend lies dead behind a dive in Jersey. Enter Quinn, stage right, to help find justice.
Quinn and Nora are on a forced vacation, with a contract out on his head. They’re headed to Palm Springs, where a Russian producer’s lousy kids all want a piece of his estate…
Quinn’s most challenging mystery yet! Two locked rooms, two suicide notes… a pair of dead-cert murders. Can Quinn uncover the truth before another brother bites the bullet?
Back behind bars, Quinn must rely on Nora’s quick wit and street smarts to turn back the clock and take on a cold case murder from decades earlier. But time is running out…
It’s Liam and Nora’s wedding day. Everything is going perfectly… which, history suggests, means everything is about to go terribly wrong. Will Quinn leave her at the altar to catch a killer?
Deep down in Florida, the heat makes people crazy. When a baseball coach drowns in a hottub, it’s a chance for Quinn’s father Al to put an old debt to bed once and for all….
Someone has kidnapped a loved one, an old enemy looking for revenge. Quinn has twenty-four hours to unravel a sick scavenger hunt, before an air-tight room becomes a tomb.
Witness protection beckons. Liam and Nora are in rural Minnesota, where a newspaper editor lost his head. Can Quinn keep his wits about him and catch a killer who’s a cut above?
It’s a last night of drinking for an old friend with the Philly police. But retirement won’t keep him from bloody retribution. A career criminal is fingered for the killing. Quinn’s not so sure.
An ambitious and caring young political operator is murdered. Her ex-con brother thinks Quinn owes him a favor. Quinn will settle for ensuring a killer is taken off Philadelphia’s streets.