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#1 in the Lomax & Biggs Series
When the actor inside the iconic Rambunctious Rabbit costume is murdered at a Disneyesque theme park, LAPD detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs are called in to hunt down a killer who's targeting Hollywood's biggest entertainment company.
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#2 in the Lomax & Biggs Series
Barry Gerber, one of the most hated, and powerful producers in Hollywood, is a no-show for a red carpet movie premiere. The next morning he turns up dead. Exsanguinated. Drained of blood. No one at the Los Angeles Police Department has ever seen a murder like it. Everyone hated the victim. LAPD Detective Terry Biggs jokes that the murder could be an elaborate public service effort to make Hollywood a better place. But Biggs and his partner Detective Mike Lomax soon find all jokes are off when, two days later, the prime suspect, another despised show-business bad boy, is found murdered in the same sadistic manner. With two A-list Hollywood giants dead, the list of suspects in the mystery becomes as long as the credits in a summer blockbuster. Is it a story of revenge elevated to deadly new heights, a serial killer, or something even more diabolical? Their investigation leads them to a motive far more primal than they imagined. Complicating matters, after a recent high-profile case, Lomax and Biggs were in talks with Gerber to turn their story into a major Hollywood film. His death could mean the end of their dreams of fame and fortune in the movies.
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#3 in the Lomax & Biggs Series
A cop's wife is murdered. As LAPD detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs investigate, the wife of a second cop is also killed. Both victims were part of an ingenious one-of-a-kind house flipping scheme. Nora Bannister, bestselling author of the House to Die For mystery series, buys a house dirt cheap. While her partners turn it into a showplace, Nora sets a murder at the address in her newest bestseller. When the house goes on the market, there's a bidding frenzy because it seems lots of people want to live in a house touched by fame and (fictional) murder. But why is someone killing the house flippers? Lomax and Biggs get pressure from Los Angeles City Hall to bring the cases to a quick conclusion, but there are several suspects, including Nora Bannister's literary assistant who covets her bestseller status; Charlie, who just became the sole heir to Nora's money; and Tony, the husband of one of the house flippers who might have a girlfriend on the side. When Lomax and Biggs race to track down the murderer, because the next logical target is Terry Biggs's wife Marilyn.
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#4 in the Lomax & Biggs Series
There are 33 million scrapbookers in America. Some are passionate. Some are compulsive. One is homicidal. When Eleanor Bellingham-Crump, an unrepentant socialite responsible for the drunk-driving death of a ten-year-old boy, turns up murdered on the floor of a Hollywood hotel bathroom, LAPD detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs are confronted with a crime of artistic brutality. A vigilante is serving their own brand of crafty justice in Los Angeles, punishing those seen as wrongdoers with a pair of scissors through the spleen. And as if a bloody corpse were not enough, the killer leaves behind an intricate scrapbook documenting a motive of vengeance in lurid detail. Marshall Karp, coauthor with James Patterson of the #1 bestselling NYPD Red series, sets this Lomax and Biggs thriller in the normally benign world of scrapbooking. As more bodies are discovered, each with a scrapbook, Lomax and Biggs race to decode the meaning behind the clues before the killer has time to cut, paste...and kill again.
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#5 in the Lomax & Biggs Series
Hollywood homicide Detective Mike Lomax is at a routine medical appointment when an assailant with a shotgun kills a respected Los Angeles fertility doctor and then himself. But the murder makes no sense. The killer and the victim don't know one another. When a traffic accident turns out to be a second murder, and again the killer and victim are strangers, Lomax and his partner Terry Biggs have to connect the dots to uncover the shocking motive behind the killings.Laced with twists, turns, and Karp's trademark biting cop humor, readers may start rooting for the killers: cancer patients willing to kill to earn a half million dollars for the loved ones they will leave behind. The trail of bloodshed leads to a ringleader with a taste for Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Jung, Ayn Rand, and Nancy Drew; victims being dropped to their deaths from a helicopter; and the powerful and malevolent forces of Big Pharma. As the body count mounts Lomax and Biggs realize that they are uncovering a plot that leads to the corporate boardroom and maybe to a cabinet secretary. Detective Lomax, at the same time, faces a personal health scare, life-changing decisions regarding his girlfriend Diana and their foster daughter Sophie, and, as always, his well-meaning but meddling father Big Jim.
