Bøger af Robert Joseph

Fati, recently married to Arch Lindor, a charming but mysterious man she met on a trip to Spain after resigning from the Los Angeles Police Department, learns that she has inherited 'Florestal', her Mexican-born, murdered great aunt's sprawling estate in San Marino, California. Forced to travel alone to the west coast from the home in Florida she shares with her new husband because of his business commitments, Fati finds herself increasingly dependent on her elderly great aunt's former 'walker' (escort), Walter Mulday, who is only too willing to aid her in vital decisions pertaining to the settlement of the deceased relative's legally contested fortune, which includes many priceless pre-Columbian Mexican art works, an area in which he claims to be an expert. As Walter forces himself into her life against her wishes and other wealthy, elderly women with whom he has been associated are subsequently murdered, Fati pleads with Arch to abandon his business obligations in Florida and join her in California. However, when Arch arrives, Fati is dismayed to discover that Walter is as equally adept at deceiving and manipulating him as he is with her, although employing entirely different means. She quickly realizes that if Walter has selected her as a future victim, which she strongly suspects, she will be forced to rely on her police training and herself alone

A popular ER doctor is found impaled on a SCUBA spear. A motorhome blows up, killing four Gaviota Nude Beach regulars. Clothing-optional beachgoers are beginning to feel they have a target painted on their bare backs. Who is the killer and what is his motive? When police don't seem all that interested, physical therapist Jake Ross and horse trainer Nikki Desjardin decide to look for answers.

A gripping, suspenseful murder mystery takes a supernatural slant in Robert Joseph's DEADLY DESIRE. When homicide detective Raff Rafferty is assigned to find the killer of a reclusive millionaire, he becomes embroiled in an ever-tightening web of danger and deception. Could the killer be the beautiful guru who is not only the millionaire's heir, but also claims to be the reincarnation of a revered Tibetan lama with mystical powers? While Raff tries to catch the killer and resist the temptations of this seductive woman, he must also fight to save his own life. A tense, taut thriller, DEADLY DESIRE has enough hair-raising twists and turns to keep you guessing from the first exciting page to the last.

Everywhere Enemies: Foreign and Domestic continues the exciting action-adventure series where in the not-too-distant future teleporting to other planets, solar systems, Galaxies and even Dimensions is part of the norm, including limited time travel. Follow the Galactic Council and its members as they confront both old and new enemies in this exciting adventure series by Robert Lee Joseph One of many cherished reviews: "I have thoroughly enjoyed the three "Everywhere" books I have read, and look forward to reading the fourth one...."If you are able to get a TV producer interested in the series, there is reason to think that the material would provide scripting for several seasons of shows that could easily become as popular as Star Trek. Keep up the good work." - Owen Jones, Denison, Texas

PERILOUS PILGRIMAGE - Murder, mayhem and mysticism! Homicide and holiness are the basic ingredients when Raff and Fati together embark on a pilgrimage known as 'El Camino', five hundred miles on foot across northern Spain to the tomb of Saint James, the Apostle in the cathedral at Santiago de Campostela. Father and daughter are accompanied by a diverse group of fellow pilgrims: a seductive beauty contest winner, her fabulously wealthy fiancé, his snobbish aunt, a valiant Mexican-American double-amputee veteran of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars, a devout Catholic businessman from Hong Kong, China, a skeptical Australian herbal healer and practitioner of Wicca, a retired, callous Army colonel, a plastic surgeon of dubious ethics, a tattooed American young man on a motorcycle, an infertile Italian couple yearning for a child and a Spanish felon sentenced to walk the Camino as punishment for his crime. Very early in the long journey pilgrims begin dying mysteriously - poisoned by toxic mushrooms, attacked by a swarm of killer bees, a fall from a fourth story balcony in Pamplona during the Running-of-the-Bulls - which are ruled 'accidental deaths' by the Spanish police, but Raff and Fati begin to suspect murder. Later, when additional and more vicious deaths begin to occur - a skinning, a beheading, an attempted immolation during a Wiccan ritual - it becomes increasingly obvious to Raff and Fati that there is a violent killer among them. But who? And, more importantly, what is the motive? That conundrum is left to Raff and Fati to solve leading to a surprise ending with a double twist.

Raff Rafferty, to escape the furor of an officer-involved shooting scandal in California, moves to Manhattan and joins the New York City Police Department. Can he restore his life and reputation in the Big Apple or is his investigation of the baffling murder of a gorgeous model and his brush with the colorful, bizarre-and sometimes dangerous-world of high fashion destined to destroy him?

Fr. "Raff" Rafferty, a former NYPD cop, has been assigned by his bishop to an orphanage in India from which young girls have been mysteriously disappearing. Complications arise at a sacred Hindu ceremony in which a statue of the god Shiva, whose third eye is the world's largest ruby, is ritually bathed in the sacred lake by a revered holy man. When the holy man is murdered and the ruby stolen during the ceremony, Raff promises the beleaguered Maharajah that he will search for the holy man's killer, recover the ruby and find the missing girls. CURSE OF THE COBRA is crammed with foreign intrigue, colorful characters and hair-raising adventure.

Police detective-turned-priest Raff Rafferty stumbles on the body of celebrated movie star Marc Palmer on a remote beach in rural northern California and is persuaded by the local sheriff to help with the murder investigation. Traveling to Los Angeles, Raff quickly acquires a list of colorful suspects, among them are the victim's four ex-wives, a shady Las Vegas showman, a resentful ex-acrobat, a Hollywood sex symbol actress, a macho Western hero and a sinister psychic medium. When several suspects die suspicious deaths, Palmer's only child kidnapped and his guardians slain, Raff digs deeper and uncovers tantalizing clues regarding Palmer's true identity, about which the screen idol has always been vague and mysterious, as well as the extremes to which some people go to achieve success, fame -- and revenge!

An exciting coming-of-age story reminiscent of CATCHER IN THE RYE set in the last days of World War II which will thrill modern teens and remind older readers of their youth.

DIVA is the story of Angela Santini who uses her magnificent voice, love of music, ruthless ambition and irresitible charm to rise from her humble San Franciso origins to become the toast of the international opera world, attracting - and often exploiting - patrons, lovers and spouses along the way until she meets the one man she cannot dominate. DIVA is a turbulent novel of triumph and tragedy, brimming with human passions, excitement and colorful characters, a novel you will not be able to put down.

Fatima Rafferty, now an LAPD patrol officer, is offered the opportunity by Frank Fregoso, her Division Commander, to go undercover at a Kinsey-like sex research center funded by HONEYS mens' magazine mogul, Harold 'Honey' Coombs, when a young female researcher at the organization is brutally slain. A veiled promise of a possible promotion to homicide detective for Fati is part of Fregoso's deal. When the suave, sophisticated and very attractive psychiatrist head of the center refuses to turn over to the police the list of subjects whom the dead researcher has interviewed, Fregoso, who, Fati suspects, may harbor more than a casual interest in her, is convinced that the murderer may well be on that list, and the psychiatrist may be less than innocent in the case. Fati accepts Fregoso's offer and successfully deceives the center's staff into believing she is a UCLA graduate student in psychology and is hired. Eventually, she surreptitiously obtains the desired list and secretly begins interviewing its subjects on her own as possible murder suspects. At the same time, she finds herself falling for the psychiatrist, whom she cannot rule out as a vicious murderer. Her poorly concealed interest in the seductive psychiatrist arouses the jealousy of macho Division Commander Fregoso who has begun to openly exhibit romantic interest in the attractive young officer under his command. This potentially risky situation worries Fati, who realizes that her safety is ultimately in Fregoso's hands, especially when subsequent vicious murders are committed at the center, and Fati begins to suspect that she herself may be targeted as the next victim.

As the official chaplain of a major Seattle medical complex, Raff - now Father Rafferty - attends to the spiritual needs of the victims of a lethal and previously unknown viral disease believed to be caused by a mysterious organism known as HH-256. Fired research physician Dr. Amir Hallaby confides to Raff that he suspects that rival researcher Dr. Henry Hammel is behind the spread of the virus via deliberately contaminated vaccines manufactured by a pharmaceutical company owned by Hammel's close friend, Anja Kramer, with whom he appears to have an uncertain relationship. Despite his vow of celibacy, Raff finds himself attracted to the seductive and attractive Anja, whom he suspects may be part of an international conspiracy to wipe out targeted Third World population groups who oppose the ambitious, but dangerous plans of Swedish magnate Sven Olafsson to exploit their respective countries. Olafsson is a close associate and major donor to the research work of both Hammel and Kramer. When Dr. Hallaby is murdered in a bizarre and gruesome fashion after having informed Raff that he is close to finding a drug to effectively combat HH-256, Raff is determined to get to the bottom of the crime as well as helping to control the devastating epidemic. Learning that an ambitious immunization program, sponsored by Olafsson, is underway in the jungles of Brazil, Raff secretly travels to that burgeoning South American nation with Hallaby's experimental anti-viral medication only to find on arrival that evil forces are out to destroy both him and the possible cure.