Mitch Tobin Books

A mob boss hires an ex-cop to find his mistress’s killer in “the kind of tight lipped, hard mouthed story . . . which Chandler initiated and which Bogart immortalized” ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review). Six months ago, Mitchell Tobin lost his career—and with it, his identity. An honest cop drummed out of the force because of one terrible mistake, Tobin has spent six months watching his savings dwindle and his family fall apart. But no matter how badly he needs work, he doesn’t want anything to do with Ernie Rembeck, a crime boss whose mistress has just turned up dead. The killer can only be someone inside the organization, and Rembeck wants him identified. Tobin agrees, under assurances that nothing illegal will be asked of him, but he soon finds that without a badge, right and wrong are nothing but words. Mitch Tobin is about to take on every heavy in the New York mob scene. He’s finally found a purpose, but his safety is in serious jeopardy.

Mitchell Tobin is back, in a novel as uncompromising, as hard and reflective as his debut in Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death. Dismissed from the New York City Police Department, Tobin wants only to remain at home behind a wall of his own making, but instead finds himself thrust into a case that begins with police harassment of a Village coffee shop and ends in multiple murder.

Mitch Tobin's latest case draws him into the world of astrology and homosexuality when he attempts to find the killer of Jamie Dearborn before he strikes against the Brooklyn Heights gay enclave again. Tobin has to win the trust of Dearborn's friends and protect his ex-lover from a cop.

Linda Campbell, the woman who brought about Mitch Tobin's downfall, was back - and just as he was getting it together as a museum security guard in New York. Then Tobin discovers a body in the museum, and comes under pressure from hostile cops and a group a small-time hoodlums with a grudge.