Joe Keough Mystery Books

A brutal serial killer stalks young women in New York City as Joe Keough, a detective with nothing to lose, challenges the system to get to the truth--and risks failure that could leave the city in the grip of fear.

Brooklyn-born Detective Joe Keough, arriving for a new job in St. Louis, quickly becomes drawn into two cases--one involving a little boy--and a trail of abductions and murder. By the author of Blood on the Arch. Reprint.

When the brutally murdered body of a political aide is found near the famous St. Louis Arch, homicide cop Joe Keough is confronted by a psychotic killer who torments him with clues and messages, and as the body count grows higher, Joe races against time to put an end to the madness. Reprint.

Keough has been at his job in the Mayor's office for a year and he's not happy. He's been involved in more political functions and fund raisers than investigations. But when bodies of pregnant women begin to pile up on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, the Mayor of East St. Louis asks for help. Now out on loan, Keough heads up the search for a serial killer with only a Mark Twain quoting sidekick and young female clerk as his "task force." At the worst possible time his ex-girlfriend, Valerie, comes back into his life with a problem--the little boy, Brady, who tracked bloody footprints into Keough's life in In the Shadow of the Arch, is in trouble. And as if all this weren't enough, Keough is still trying to adjust to the fact that he has diabetes. When an offer to leave St. Louis to join a special state-wide serial killer squad comes his way, Keough has to make a decision that could change his personal and professional life forever. Throughout all this turmoil, Keough works frantically to discover the perpetrator of these increasingly sick and twisted crimes, before another young woman and her unborn baby are killed. Filled with modern images of St. Louis, Robert J. Randisi spins another thrilling, multi-layered murder mystery.

In the wake of two series of murders in which the victims are young boys in one location and girls in the other, detective Joe Keough and his partner, Harriet Connors, are dispatched from Washington, D.C., to identify a link between the two sets of killings. Originally published as Arch Angels. Reprint.