The Sam Laska Thriller Series

He thought he left the murder business behind. He was dead wrong.
Unemployed and broke, leaving him no choice but to move in with his retired father on Florida’s gulf coast, disgraced Chicago Police detective Sam Laska discovers more than he signed up for when he agrees to investigate a suspicious death as a favor to a friend. The sad but no so...

Former Chicago Police Detective Sam Laska discovers a dead body and more when he takes a job as an insurance investigator. Fighting the urge to involve himself proves futile as new and old friends are swept up. His loyalty to them trumps restraint and he rushes in headfirst. A voluptuous vixen, a rustic thug, police detectives, a storefront...

Jesse Nichols is a man with nothing to lose. He’s lost his job, his home, his family and is his freedom. He blames the man with everything to lose - Sam Laska. Leaving bodies in his wake, Nichols has escaped jail. With the Feds on this tail, he’s tracked Laska to Chicago and is hell bent on seeking revenge by taking everything from him. But...

Exiled from the police department, Sam Laska returns to Chicago to keep a promise he never should have made.
Sixteen years ago, homicide detective Sam Laska made a promise to the family of a murdered man: he would bring the killer to justice. The murder on the Green Line, one of Chicago’s iconic elevated commuter trains, looked like nothing more...