Come What May (The Malone Novels Book 1)

Inspired by a shocking true story, Come What May, the debut book in the new Ben Malone detective mystery series, is a high-stakes thrill ride of deceit, betrayal, dark choices, and murder through the gritty underbelly of Los Angeles.

Hollywood Division Detective Ben Malone is caught up in a run of bad luck. The worst of it, his unfortunate entanglement in three separate fatal on-duty shootings in less than a year. The spate of shootings has his LAPD superiors on edge and questioning his judgment. Is Malone too quick to use deadly force?

Relieved from street duty, Malone is sequestered in Robbery-Homicide Division's Cold Case Homicide Section to keep him under wraps while he undergoes department-mandated psychiatric evaluation. His work-related problems compounded by a vindictive ex-wife intent on bleeding him dry financially sends Malone into a spiral of depression that soon has him drinking too much in an attempt to cope.

Initially resentful over his reassignment to the cold case section, Malone's attitude starts to change once he and his new partner, Detective Jaime Reyes, discover the file of a cold as ice, 23-year-old unsolved murder case.

The decades-old murder doesn't fit the unit's criteria for reopening a cold case for active investigation, but the more Malone studies the case, the more obsessed he becomes with solving it. He and Reyes soon embark on an "off-the-books" investigation that predictably creates new problems, especially for Malone. It quickly becomes clear that there are powerful forces at work both inside and outside the LAPD determined to keep the truth behind the murder buried along with the victim's corpse.

The more resistance he encounters, the more unwavering Malone becomes even when the investigation starts to threaten his very career with the LAPD. Even after the investigation sends him hurtling into more trouble than he ever dreamed possible, Malone is determined to uncover the truth and solve the murder, come what may.