Milt Kovak, a divorced Deputy Sheriff, begins an affair with Laura Johnson, a married witness to one of the serial murders he is investigating

The Man in the Green Chevy

Literature & Fiction

Cooper, Susan Rogers

United States

St Martins Pr

Milton Kovak hurries to Houston where his brother-in-law has been murdered and his own sister, the prime suspect in the murder, lies in a coma, and works unofficially to clear his sibling's name

Houston in the Rearview Mirror

St.Martin's Press

When Lois Bell, the neat, well-dressed teller at the Longbranch bank, and her family are found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in their home, the people of Prophesy County, Oklahoma, are shocked by the garbage-strewn interior of the Bell household

Other People's Houses

When Sheriff Milt Kovak's sweetheart, Glenda Sue, is murdered, he must contend with her daughter, confront Glenda Sue's secret dark side, and find her murderer

Chasing Away the Devil

Refusing to believe that Roy Lester, the devoted head of the neighboring Lester family, is responsible for the family members' recent murders, housewife and romance novelist E.J. Pugh does some investigating

One, Two, What Did Daddy Do?

The many devoted readers of Susan Rogers Cooper's Milt Kovak mystery series have been noticed from time to time laughing out loud, even during a passage of thrilling drama. Obviously, the author is a very funny woman. And now she brings that aspect of her talent to fruition in the creation of Kimmey Kruse, stand-up comic. Kimmey is constantly assaulted by the public-bartenders, dentists, cleaning ladies - all trying to give her jokes. "I don't tell jokes! I'm a stand-up comic!" But she is just as funny offstage as on, and a character to be savored. Life at this point, however, is about as much fun as picking okra for our pint-sized comedian. While playing the Kaiser Komedy Klub in Chicago, she encounters a former lover, Cab Neusberg, whom she hasn't seen since the Laff-a-Lot club in Denver several years earlier. Planning a brief reprise, Cab arrives at Kimmey's hotel room only to expire in her arms just as things are getting interesting. That's not funny at all, and it's even less funny when Sal Pucci, the Chicago detective who catches the case, informs Kimmey that somebody gave Cab enough digitalis to kill a Buick with heart disease. Who could it have been, Ms. Kruse? As a kind of up-to-date Greek chorus with common sense, there is Kimmey's corporate lawyer friend Phoebe, a very present phone presence in whom Kimmey confides. Phoebe gives the comedian strong doses of reality and the name of the Chicago equivalent of super-lawyer Racehorse Haynes. She'll need it.

Funny As a Dead Comic

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Milt Kovak runs for sheriff of Prophesy County, Oklahoma, becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his only rival, copes with family problems involving his new bride, and investigates a series of animal kidnappings

Dead Moon on the Rise (A Milt Kovak Mystery)

As the story opens, comic Kimmey Kruse is summoned from a Pittsburgh gig by Me-Maw, her grandmother, because Paw-Paw, her grandfather, has broken his leg. Since Me-Maw banished him from her house years before ("You can't keep a house clean with a man in it, yeah.") and Kimmey's mother has gone off to the Antarctic with her professor husband, it is up to the comic to baby-sit the feisty old man. The picnic/family reunion that Me-Maw takes her granddaughter to turns out to have several memorable elements. There's the food, of considerable interest to ninety-pound Kimmey; there's her gorgeous cousin Willard, whom she's never known because Willard's mother, Letitia, and the female relatives have been feuding for ages; and then there's the death of Letitia, in her car, from a barrage of wasp stings. Two dead wasps in a jar in the dead woman's car convince Kimmey that Letitia was murdered; of course, no one believes her. Until the sexy and infuriating Chicago cop Kimmey met during her first murder case shows up uninvited to exasperate Kimmey and inflame her with desire. Eventually, she is proved right, but what's the good of that if the proof is being pursued by a killer at midnight along the top of a slippery sea wall?

Funny As a Dead Relative: A Kimmy Kruse Mystery

In his sixth case, the rumpled, perpetually bemused Oklahoma lawman Milt Kovak investigates the suicide of his best friend's wife while standing for election as sheriff and catering to the whims of his pregnant wife.

Doctors and Lawyers and Such/a Milt Kovak Mystery

Sheriff Milt Kovak, having joined his psychiatrist wife on a trip to a conference in Las Vegas, expects a welcome vacation, inspecting the casinos. He has left a capable second-in-command to watch over his small town in Oklahoma, but almost as soon as they arrive, Milt gets an S.O.S. call from his cousin Maida. Her pregnant daughter has been beaten by her husband, and Maida's husband, Burl, has thoroughly trounced his son-in-law. The young man is the son of a very powerful businessman in Vegas, and the police want to lock Burl up. Milt manages to talk his fellow cops into giving him custody of Burl until the trial and takes the still-steaming man to their hotel room; Burl reciprocates by disappearing. Milt doesn't think anything else can go wrong---except it does. The next morning, the young man is found dead. Now Milt must forego the wonders of Las Vegas to try to find Burl and clear him from the charge of murder. He expects to get some help from the young widow's several brothers, who descend on the town "volunteering to help." But they are more involved with quarreling among themselves than in finding the murderer. Will Milt hit the jackpot? Susan Rogers Cooper has upped the ante with her latest, a fun-filled, adventure-packed addition to this consistently entertaining series.

Vegas Nerve: A Sheriff Milt Kovak Mystery

Contemporary

Minotaur Books

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