Murder on the Run

Meet Veronica "Ronnie" Ventana, daughter of the infamous Ventana's, the couple who made cat burglary classy.  But Ronnie, with her special expertise in burglar alarm systems -- getting past them, that is -- and her best friend, Blackie Coogan, shamus emeritus of San Francisico, operate on the legit side of the law.Running is supposed to be the path to health, but for Ronnie it's suddenly a direct route to danger.  At six A.M. on the edge of the bay, she's the jogger who stumbles onto the scene of a crime.  The killer has seen her face and she's IDed him as a political honcho with enough clout to cover up anything . . . even murder.  Now she's running for her life from the barrios to San Francisco's ritziest neighborhoods . . . and her destination is that dark place called Justice and Revenge.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

White, Gloria

Mystery

Dell

Raised to be a cat burglar by her infamous cat burglar parents, private eye Veronica Ventana gets a taste of her family's own medicine when Bink Hanover breaks into her apartment and begs her to help him

Money to Burn

Private investigator and security expert Ronnie Ventana agrees to test the alarm system of a house in Presidio Heights and finds herself accused of murdering a U.S. senator found dead upstairs

Charged With Guilt

Private investigator Ronnie Ventana is sitting alone on a bench in the middle of the night, at the San Francisco intersection of Sunset and Santiago. she is there to observe the grim anniversary of her parents' fatal car crash twenty years earlier--an "accident" that has never seemed entirely accidental to her. But then, there in the darkness, she notices two men dumping a body in the shrubs. and a young witness, who's also a friend, wants to get involved in solving the case, What had started as a midnight vigil--personal and poignant--turns into a public investigation of a very different crime, Now, without warning, Ronnie is up to her ears in a new case that snakes through a tunnel of civic corruption and brings her fresh revelations about her parents' long-ago double murder.

Sunset and Santiago

Sunset & Santiago FL

Literature & Fiction

United States

Severn House Pub Ltd

When Ronnie invites her friend and mentor Blackie Coogan to join her at the comeback concert of Match Margolis, the greatest tenor sax and jazz composer alive, she is not expecting a final very final performance. Match seems to owe money all round town, but some very powerful figures illogically don't seem to want to call in the debt. Much to the annoyance of Lieutenant Philly Post, Ronnie is retained by Sharon, Match's flamboyant and younger second wife, and finds herself entwined with San Francisco's shady underworld as the mystery deepens. Death strikes again, and Ronnie herself is in real danger. But from whom? And where and when will the murderer next strike?

Death Notes

Severn House

A new Ronnie Ventana mystery After a fifteen-year absence Ronnie Ventana's high school friend, Analisa Bugatti, turns up in San Francisco with a couple of babies in tow. During lunch at a Chinatown restaurant, Analisa vanishes, leaving Ronnie with the two kids. Is Analisa in trouble, or simply criminally irresponsible? Rather than plunge the children into the bureaucratic quagmire of Child Protective Services, Ronnie gives her friend the benefit of the doubt and temporarily stashes the kids with a grumbling Blackie Coogan while she sets out to find her friend. It doesn?t take long for Ronnie to realise that Analisa is involved in a sting involving stolen babies ? but who is masterminding it?

Cry Baby (A Ronnie Ventana Mystery)

A gripping thriller featuring Ronnie Ventana After a fifteen-year absence, Ronnie's high school friend, Analisa Bugatti, turns up in San Francisco with a couple of babies in tow. During lunch at a Chinatown restaurant Analisa vanishes, leaving Ronnie with the two kids. Is Analisa in trouble, or simply criminally irresponsible? It doesn?t take long for Ronnie to realize that Analisa is involved in a sting involving stolen babies ? but who is masterminding it?

Cry Baby (Ronnie Ventana Mysteries (Paperback))

Ronnie Ventana's a San Francisco P.I. whose parents were cat burglars and who herself is a professional at compromising burglar alarm systems.  While jogging on the edge of San Francisco Bay one morning, she stumbles onto the scene of a crime. The killer has seen her face and Ronnie IDs him as a political honcho with enough clout to cover up anything...even murder. Now she's running for her life from the barrios to San Francisco's ritziest neighborhoods...and her destination is that dark place called Justice and Revenge.

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Murder on the Run

Money to Burn

Charged With Guilt

Sunset and Santiago

Sunset & Santiago FL

Murder on the Run

Death Notes

Cry Baby (A Ronnie Ventana Mystery)

Cry Baby (Ronnie Ventana Mysteries (Paperback))

Murder on the Run