Author: vincentpanettiere

Hours after a thoroughbred racehorse collapses and dies after finishing last in a race he was favored to win, his trainer–a young woman with a promising career–is found dead on a suburban Chicago beach. To the police, it’s a simple case of murder-suicide. But Mike Hegan, veteran police detective, refuses to believe the official story. Instead of retiring like they want him to, he embarks upon a … upon a search for the truth, and finds himself on a Caribbean island where scores are settled–and lives are lost.Fans of James Patterson and other crime fiction writers will find a new…

A Hmong “story cloth,” a Revolutionary War battle flag, forged Picassos and a Russian drug dealer–finding the link between these disparate elements is the challenge Mike Hegan faces in The Scopas Factor, the latest mystery from Vincent Panettiere.After his last investigation ends tragically, Detective Mike Hegan returns to Chicago from St. Kitts, hoping to put everything behind him. But his … girlfriend, Diana, has other plans, and although he has no interest in the job opportunity she presents him–in a small northern California town, no less–he wants to please her. Upon his arrival in Weedley, he’s caught up in a…