Peter Bragg Mystery Books

This is the action-packed novel that launched Jack Lynch’s Edgar Award and two-time Shamus Award-nominated Bragg series…vaulting him into the pantheon of detective fiction masters alongside Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Dashiell Hammett, Robert B. Parker and Ross MacDonald. “Tough, taut and terse… literate without being lofty, not unlike the work of Hammett himself.” The Thrilling Detective Korean War vet and ex-reporter Peter Bragg is hired by Armando Barker, a retired mobster, to find out who is targeting him and his eleven-year-old daughter with death threats. But after a gruesome killing of someone close to Barker, the threats become a bloody promise. Barker’s violent past in Sand Valley, a bleak, California desert town, has come back to haunt him with a vengeance. So that’s where Bragg goes, walking right into the vicious, bloody war that’s raging between the town’s factions…and becoming everyone’s target. “First-rate, well-plotted. Bragg is a restrained and believable hero. The action scenes are excellent. The gangland gun battle that rages across Sand Valley is a superb.” 101 Knights: A Survey of American Detective Fiction “Bragg is authentic, gripping, gritty.” San Francisco Examiner Originally Published as “Bragg’s Hunch.”

This is the action-packed novel that launched Jack Lynch’s Edgar Award and two-time Shamus Award-nominated Bragg series…vaulting him into the pantheon of detective fiction masters alongside Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Dashiell Hammett, Robert B. Parker and Ross MacDonald. “Tough, taut and terse… literate without being lofty, not unlike the work of Hammett himself.” The Thrilling Detective Korean War vet and ex-reporter Peter Bragg is hired by Armando Barker, a retired mobster, to find out who is targeting him and his eleven-year-old daughter with death threats. But after a gruesome killing of someone close to Barker, the threats become a bloody promise. Barker’s violent past in Sand Valley, a bleak, California desert town, has come back to haunt him with a vengeance. So that’s where Bragg goes, walking right into the vicious, bloody war that’s raging between the town’s factions…and becoming everyone’s target. “First-rate, well-plotted. Bragg is a restrained and believable hero. The action scenes are excellent. The gangland gun battle that rages across Sand Valley is a superb.” 101 Knights: A Survey of American Detective Fiction “Bragg is authentic, gripping, gritty.” San Francisco Examiner Originally Published as “Bragg’s Hunch.”

Peter Bragg must stop a killer determined to recover all of the pieces of a Chinese chess set five veterans took as a war souvenir thirty-seven years before

Call Peter Bragg if You Don’t Want To… WAKE UP AND DIE The blistering fourth novel in the multiple Shamus and Edgar Award nominated Bragg series of crime thrillers by Jack Lynch. A blackmail case leads private eye Peter Bragg across the Golden Gate to Sausalito, a waterfront playground for the rich and where real estate developers are fighting a brutal war to claim every precious inch of bay view land, soaking the dirt with the blood. Bragg is the only one who can stand up against the campaign of torture, arson, and murder…and reveal who is behind all of the bloodshed…if they don’t kill him first. “Bragg is authentic, gripping, gritty…what Lynch sells is well-written escape…slam-bang mystery that’s fun to read.” San Francisco Examiner “This is a first-rate series.” 101 Knights: A Survey of American Detective Fiction “The books are damn good, featuring a hard but believable hero.” The Thrilling Detective (Originally published under the title Sausalito)

While working on a blackmail case in the placid community of Sausalito, Peter Bragg stumbles into a web of extortion, arson, torture, and murder linked to the construction of an elegant new hotel complex

Desperate men with nothing to lose make one last demand. Get Peter Bragg. SPEAK FOR THE DEAD The Shamus Award-nominated fifth novel in Jack Lynch’s Edgar-Award-nominated series of detective novels. An escape attempt at San Quentin goes to hell, a guard is beaten into a coma, and the hard-core convicts retreat to a corner of the prison with their hostages, including two civilian women. It’s a deadly stand-off…a bloody powder-keg ready to explode into a full-scale massacre. The cornered, desperate prisoners have one demand: they want private eye Peter Bragg to clear the ringleader’s teenage brother of a murder charge in a small, northern California town. It’s a high-stakes case with a brutal ticking clock, and it pits Bragg against cops, neo-Nazis and powerful enemies who would like to see him, the convicts, and the hostages all go down in a hail of flames and gunfire that would keep their secrets from ever being revealed. “Bragg is authentic, gripping, gritty…what Lynch sells is well-written escape…slam-bang mystery that’s fun to read” San Francisco Examiner “This is a first-rate series,” 101 Knights: A Survey of American Detective Fiction “The books are damn good, featuring a hard but believable hero,” The Thrilling Detective (Originally published under the title "San Quentin")

Bragg returns to San Quentin State Prison to stop a bloodbath as war breaks out between the guards and a gang of convicts holding hostages, who are demanding the release of their leader's kid brother, who has been accused of murder

The sixth novel in the multiple Shamus and Edgar Award nominated Bragg series that placed Jack Lynch among the masters of detective fiction. Bragg runs into Jo Sommers, a woman he longed for many years ago…and who is now unhappily married. Hour's later, she's accused of murdering her husband. Bragg agrees to help prove that Jo is innocent, discovering a tangled web of blackmail, extortion, and murder, stretching forty years into the past…to a secret so horrible, it’s still worth killing to keep it buried.

Jo Sommers becomes the major suspect in the murder of her psychiatrist husband and hires Peter Bragg to prove her innocence

Hardboiled, hard-hitting private detective Peter Bragg returns to his hometown of Seattle in response to old friend Benny Bartlett, who has become the target of vicious threats and violent attacks

Private eye Peter Bragg, a publicity shy woman psychic and a smart woman sheriff's detective team up to stop multiple killings that have no apparent motive.

THE MISSING AND THE DEAD The Edgar Award nominated second thriller in the Bragg series of novels puts Jack Lynch in the same league as Robert B. Parker, Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross MacDonald. "Bragg is authentic, gripping, gritty." San Francisco Examiner Private eye Peter Bragg’s relentless search for a missing insurance investigator unearths shocking secrets involving embezzled money, the disappearance of a cop, art stolen from a San Francisco gallery, and a serial killer obsessed with the expressions on his victim’s faces when they realize they are going to die. Bragg connects the dots, creating a chilling portrait of impending death...and it could be his own. "This is a first-rate series. The novels are well plotted. Bragg is a restrained and believable hero. The action scenes are excellent." 101 Knights: A Survey of American Detective Fiction "The books are damn good, featuring a hard but believable hero." The Thrilling Detective

A psychic Peter Bragg once saved from suicide has seen her future… death at the hands of a serial killer… and turns to Bragg to save her life again. As one corpse after another is unearthed in the woods of Jack London State Park, Bragg teams up with a Sheriff’s detective in a race against time, and perhaps fate, to hunt down a killer stalking the nightmare landscape of the psychic’s visions and the dark, deadly streets of San Francisco.