About the Raja Williams Novels

In writing this series I wanted to create a character who was neither the down-and-out, tragic anti-hero nor a James Bond super spy. Raja Williams is a brilliant private detective with a strong empathic power and a sixth sense for evil that gives him headaches and steers him straight into trouble. He doesn’t carry a gun but he knows how to use one. Raja has an ethical code of conduct that his partner calls “Raja’s Rules.” Following his rules sometimes throws Raja into a worse tangle than he should tackle but, lucky for him, he has some very resourceful friends.

Raja’s partner, Vinny Moore, is a gorgeous hipster geek who prefers hacking computers to haute couture. Vinny once worked for the U.S. government until she purposely made herself more trouble than they could handle so they would cut her loose. She loves to push Raja’s buttons with the hipster lingo she is constantly picking up on the internet. Despite her teasing, Vinny is Raja’s best friend.

The button-down, Oxford-educated Raja Williams and the hipster, wild-child hacker Vinny Moore make a strange pairing but they work hand-in-glove to bring justice to those who have nowhere else to turn.

 

Each book in this series can be read as a stand-alone novel.

 

Raja Williams Mystery Thrillers

The Color of Greed

“A Classic Thriller” Mike Smith, e-thriller.com

Gifted PI Raja Williams and his partner Vinny Moore are called to Los Angeles when the young husband of a wealthy California heiress is found dead on his yacht. The trail leads to the ruthless Chinese mafia, a depraved human trafficking ring and a cover-up that may go as high as the governor’s mansion.  

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C'est la Vie

“Best detective since Sherlock…”

When Raja gets a call from a frantic English professor whose wife has disappeared, he and Vinny head to Paris, France on another adventurous case.

The search for the professor’s wife leads Raja and Vinny deep into the French underworld, including the club scene riddled with designer drugs, and a modern day white slave trade. 

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Swimming Upstream

“One of the top three summer reads…”

The discovery of a sinister scorched-earth plot to hide the truth leads Raja and Vinny to the Arctic wilds of Canada and lands them in the middle of a battle over the riches of the pristine wilderness. If assassins don’t kill them, the sub-zero weather just might.

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Diamonds Never Die

“Hot PI closes another case!”

After an innocent Jewish woman is brutally stabbed in Central Park, Raja and Vinny head to New York to find out why. The case takes Raja undercover into the Harlem drug scene, and puts Vinny into a Russian strip club in Brighton Beach.

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Muerte en Las Vegas

“Riveting Page Turner”

The glitz and glamour of Sin City hide a dark underbelly of greed and corruption. When an innocent falls to her death from the top of the Bellagio, Raja and Vinny are summoned to find out why. This book has it all — murder, mystery, love and non-stop fun.

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“Another fine, fast-paced crime thriller”

Raja and Vinny are called to the beautiful city of Venice. What started as a single murder leads them to an international counterfeiting ring, a mysterious hacker known as Darkman, and centuries-old Vatican secrets thought long since buried.

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Death Down Under

“The twists and turns will keep you reading way too late.”

Australia is home to seven lethal species of snakes, a half dozen types of poisonous spiders, and of course, the ever present crocodiles. The animals are not the worst danger Raja and Vinny encounter.

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“A must-read frightening possibility”

A killer with no memory of committing the crime brings Raja and Vinny to the Big Easy in the middle of Mardi Gras. The local mob crime boss, a Russian computer expert, and a pair of backwoods, meth-cooking brothers make far too many suspects.

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Coming soon…

The Mexican Way

 

Raja Williams Books 1-3

“These are not cookie cutter mysteries. They are complex, interesting, surprising and always entertaining.” -Sandy Penny, Sweet Mystery Books

Murder, twists, turns, action, suspense, depraved desires, political secrets, human trafficking, environmental corruption. Murder is never simple.

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Raja Williams Books 4-6

“Wow! What an amazing series! The locations are so well detailed that you feel like you really know the city. Raja and Vinny are a great team”

In each case a simple murder whodunnit turns into a multi-layered tale of intrigue. These fast-paced crime thrillers grab the reader right out of the gate and never let go.

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