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Jerry Kennealy
It all begins when fellow P.I. John Henning is found dead, an ostensible suicide. In his will, Henning leaves half of his earthly possessions to Polo (the other half to…
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Volunteering at a local soup kitchen, Polo gets to know Scratchy, a self-described sidewalk architect. With a Food for Vets sign in hand, Scratchy spends his days at his office…
Nick Polo’s latest case finds him on familiar San Francisco turf where a Russian antiques dealer has hired him to locate Anna, the stunning holder of a valuable Mongol paitza-a…
CARROLL QUINT is the entertainment critic for the San Francisco Bulletin. He doesn’t earn a lot of money, but the job does give him a certain place in the city’s…
Entertainment critic and film noir author Carroll Quint gets a panicky call from his mother, former movie starlet Karen Kaas. Vicky Vandamn, a roommate of Karen’s some thirty years ago…
WHEN YOU’RE IN THIS DEEP, THERE’S ONLY ONE THING TO DO… CASH OUT.
HERE’S THE STORY: San Francisco bookie Billy Rossi is more than $300,000 short. Some Chinatown thugs beat…
A thriller of counterfeiting and deception. A horror novel from the author of ‘The Conductor’.
EVERYONE KNOWS YOU KILLED YOUR WIFE… DIDN’T YOU?
Your name is Robert Duran. You are an insurance investigator specializing in art fraud. You live with your beautiful, fabulously-wealthy wife in…
A master of suspense, Jerry Kennealy delivers a riveting thriller set on the dark side of the San Francisco streets, where innocence is bought and sold-and a young girl’s life…
From an author with experience as a police officer and private investigator comes a thrilling new novel set in the high-stakes world of art smuggling. A retired thief in the…
There was no doubt about the murder weapon. You could see the outline of the horse’s hooves…
But that was the second murder. When San Francisco private investigator Nick Polo…
WHEN YOU CHASE THE DEVIL, YOU RISK CATCHING HELL…
The author of The Vatican Connection returns with a new thriller as homicide detective Harry Dymes investigates a murder-and uncovers an…
A MAN IS KILLED ON A BEACH IN SPAIN.
MISSING ARE HIS LAPTOP AND A SECRET DOCUMENT.
THE LAPTOP CONTAINS MILITARY SOFTWARE THAT COULD CHANGE THE FACE OF WAR.
THE…
I’M DYING AS FAST AS I CAN, a Nick Polo Mystery by Jerry Kennealy. 12th in series.
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In April of 1968 Steve McQueen arrives in San Francisco to film Bullitt. Rough-and-tumble SFPD Inspector Johnny O'Rorke, aka The Fixer, is the department’s Executive Protection Officer. His job is…
Nick Polo is back in his eleventh adventure, once again helped along by his sidekick, the indomitable octogenarian self-described witch, Mrs. Damonte… Billionaire vintner Paul Bernier sets San Francisco ex-cop…
A nail-biting thriller with a Hitchcock-style McGuffin…SILENT REMAINS, a crime thriller by Jerry Kennealy.
DIRTY WHO?, a Johnny O'Rorke Adventure by Jerry Kennealy, Winner of the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA).
When lawyer Mary Ariza stops on the street to help a man having a heart attack, she unknowingly marks herself for death. Jack Kordic, a cops cop, is thrust into…
Nick Polo-San Francisco-based, smart and slick private eye-sometimes bends the rules to get what he wants. But now he’s in prison for bending the rules a bit too far, and…
Nick Polo-San Francisco-based, smart and slick private eye-has never been known to work strictly within the bounds of the law. So when Ron Dettman-president and owner of a powerful Silicon…
Nick Polo, the private detective whom readers last met in Polo’s Ponies, has stooped to bodyguard work. Well, why not? All he has to do is slosh around Pebble Beach…
San Francisco private eye Nick Polo finds that there’s more than one wild card in the deck when a high-stakes poker game pushes him into the investigation of some stolen…
Polo leaves his San Francisco home base to do a favor for an old friend. It sounds simple enough: Fly to London to hand deliver a letter, a check, and…
Someone is trying to ruin us. Junior and I have poked around but haven’t come up with anything. Our attorney had someone look into it, but came up with nothing…
