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Years ago, LAPD Detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd K-9 partner, Sirius, walked through fire to save Los Angeles from serial killer Ellis Haines, known as the Weatherman. Now, they prepare for a final showdown with their mortal foe. It's been a year of change for Gideon and Sirius. Both are new parents, but for the two of them, the joys of fatherhood have to wait. After a few months of silence, the All-In Killer has begun his murderous spree again-and his latest victim died only miles from Gideon's doorstep. The All-In Killer has made it no secret that his homicidal countdown will end only with the deaths of Gideon and Sirius. When Gideon decides he can no longer hide the encroaching threat from his wife, they prepare together for the approaching storm. While Gideon chases down a new lead that might prove his suspicion that the All-In Killer has been communicating with Ellis Haines, an ecoterrorist bomber strikes California, and a recently retired deputy US marshal and her bomb-sniffing dog go missing. Gideon and Sirius join in that manhunt, doing what they do best-saving lives.

"A rocket ride of action, political intrigue, and suspense."-San Diego Magazine "A sharp thriller. Russell has us in the palm of his hand."-Chicago Tribune "Ingeniously imagined and skillfully told, Political Suicide must be included in any list of this year's best thrillers."-San Diego Union-Tribune "Political Suicide takes off at light speed and doesn't slow down until the unbelievably exciting climax."-Midwest Book Review "One of the best writers in the mystery field today."-Publishers Weekly "Russell makes it seem new all over again. He's a skillful writer."-Booklist "Russell understands action and dialogue."-Charlotte Observer "A crime fiction rara avis."-Los Angeles Times Three Tails Press editions have been revised and updated by the author.

"Chilling...satisfying...offers up tasty tidbits of San Francisco lore...[Russell] has a gift for dialogue, slyly using it to reveal character."-New York Times Book Review San Francisco P.I. Stuart Winter looks into the death of a young, deaf heiress who volunteered as a sign language instructor-for a gorilla who may have witnessed her murder. "Polished and provocative...a California mystery of the hard-boiled school...very well written, with a corking good plot and fine characters."-Booklist "Remarkable...[hops] from avant-garde theater to a deaf school, from winos' alleys to an artist's studio, to a double-twist conclusion."-Armchair Detective "An exemplary debut. Highly recommended."-Kirkus Reviews "A shocker...a genuinely original PI novel."-Jeremiah Healy, Shamus Award-winning author "A wise book, distilled from a life's understanding of the human animal: its limits, excesses, and, on occasion, its surpassing beauty."-Loren D. Estleman, author of the Amos Walker Mysteries Three Tails Press editions have been revised and updated by the author.

When the security director of the posh Hotel California abruptly departs, assistant manager Am Caulfield steps into the role. The newbie hotel detective is quickly overwhelmed when a murder-mystery weekend descends on the hotel at the same time as a Bob Johnson convention (yes, the attendees are all named Bob Johnson)-and that's before a bra thief strikes, a contractor leaps to his death, and two more dead bodies turn up.Mayhem has checked in to the Hotel California. So, as it turns out, has a murderer. Like the little Dutch boy, Am must try and plug one leak after another. Will he be able to get the job done before yet another hotel guest checks out forever?

Detective Michael Gideon is used to being handed L.A.'s oddest cases, but his newest one assigned itself. When Gideon's K-9 partner, Sirius, rescues a lost dog from a pack of coyotes, the duo tries to return her home--only to discover her owner is missing. Heather Moreland has clearly disappeared under suspicious circumstances, and the more Gideon digs into her past, the more he's convinced of her abduction. As Gideon strives to help the missing woman, he is also troubled by the suspicious death of Detective Langston Walker, the leader of a support group for families of murder victims. The last time they'd met, Walker told Gideon about a cold case he had reopened, making Gideon wonder if the detective's demise is the accident everyone believes. In this third book in Alan Russell's gripping cop-K-9 series, Gideon and Sirius race to save a young woman--and stop another killer from striking again.

When LAPD detective Michael Gideon and his police-dog partner Sirius are assigned to tithe Special Cases Unit (SCU), Gideon knows their work lives will be anything but ordinary. SCO gets the cases no one else wants, the unusual and bizarre crimes that need special handling and special investigators. They are in the midst of trying to determine the identity of the "Reluctant Hero" who seemed to magically appear just moments after shots rang out at an elementary school. Braving gunfire, the hero tackled the shooter and then disappeared.

Nina Granville believes her business trip to Alaska will give her a short respite from the merry-go-round that came with her engagement to Congressman Terrence Donnelly. But instead of allowing her the peace she craves, Ninas getaway from the public eye means that no one witnesses her abduction into a very cold hell.

It's not looking like a very merry Christmas for San Diego cop, Nick Pappas. Suspended from the force, alienated from his family, and persecuted by the press, Pappas is sorely tempted to turn his gun on himself. Then he gets a gig as an undercover Santa Claus.

Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, c1996.