She was cool, attractive—a real society lady—and she was in trouble. Benny Cooperman, a private eye with a hard head and a tender heart, was ready to help her in any way he could. But when her husband commits suicide the day Benny begins his investigation, the detective realizes he’s no longer dealing with a simple “family affair.”Probing into the curious circumstances surrounding the death, Benny soon finds himself in the midst of a few more suicides—or murders.Book 1 in t...

Hollywood’s elite has gathered on the shores of Niagara Falls for the making of the epic thriller Ice Bridge. But when Benny Cooperman wanders onto the set, he’s not looking for a bit part—he’s doggedly tracking down a woman who is missing from Grantham, Cooperman’s hometown and usual beat.Has she been hit with a lust for stardom? Or is her lust for something a little more conventional—but a lot more dangerous? Benny finds himself having to hobnob with movie celebrities—an...

Benny is recovering in a Toronto hospital from a serious blow to the head. He has a condition called alexia sine agraphia; in layman’s terms, it means he can still write but cannot read. And his memory has been affected too: although he can quote lines from his high-school production of Twelfth Night, he finds himself brushing his teeth with his shaving cream.When Benny learns that he was found unconscious beside a dead woman in a dumpster, he figures he must have...

Beloved private eye Benny Cooperman is ready to hang up his gumshoes after an attack leaves him with lingering memory problems. But then an old chum goes missing...Hot on the trail of Jake Grange, a schoolfriend who ran a scuba diving business, Benny heads to Murinam, an exotic place with the feel and look of a former French colony. There, Benny encounters a bon-vivant priest, a pretty marine biologist, and an eccentric Englishman in search of kosher food. Of course any of these ch...

Benny Cooperman’s idea of untamed nature is a dandelion growing through a crack in the sidewalk. So what’s he doing in a rowboat in Algonquin Park?What starts out as a simple babysitting assignment turns nasty, and before he’s even had time to work on his tan, Benny Cooperman’s up to his waterline in cults, black flies, and murder!Book 4 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

Benny Cooperman is slowly going crazy. It’s winter in Grantham, Ontario, and he has nothing better to do than watch the frost creeping in under his door. Nothing, that is, until blue-eyed, long-legged Muriel Falkirk enters his office because her boyfriend, the notorious Johnny Rosa, has gone missing.It’s been ten years since Johnny pulled off a sensational kidnapping, and he’s served his time. But now he’s skipped parole—or been murdered—and Muriel wants to know where he is. But a ...

Benny Cooperman is sure that toxic waste isn’t something you should spend too much time thinking about—it just isn’t good for your mental health. But when Jack Dowden’s widow appeals to Benny to investigate the death of her truck-driving husband, Canada’s favourite gumshoe finds himself up to his egg-salad-stained lapels in the deadly filth of Kinross Disposals. As he unearths clues—and PCBs—the body count begins to rise, and Benny does his best not to end up ... Dead and Buried.

Benny Cooperman, the working-stiff private eye, is back, this time trying to sort out the kerfuffle surrounding the plumbing, a dead old woman, and a crooked politician.It all starts with a noisy toilet. Benny's janitor, Kogan, is too preoccupied with the death of his girlfriend, Lizzy Oldridge, an elderly woman who appears to have starved to death. Lizzy may have died hungry, but she had plenty of money, and somehow former alderman and mayoralty candidate Thurleigh Ramsden, an uns...

When Rabbi Meltzer and the President of Grantham’s synagogue knock on Benny’s office door, they aren’t looking to sell raffle tickets. Of that much, he’s sure. They need his help in tracking down a missing lawyer who has disappeared with the life savings of half of the Jewish community. Benny knows he’ll never see a dime out of it, but what can you do? It’s summer in the city—and it’s going to be a hot one.Book 5 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

Benny Cooperman, Grantham’s soft-boiled private eye, finds himself mixed up in the art world. More out of water a fish can’t get. After all, Benny only heard of Picasso last year, and now he’s hot on the trail of some missing paintings by Wallace Lamb—a trail that leads him to some of Grantham’s illustrious elite who buy, trade, and sometimes steal pictures. As this private eye soon learns, art can lead to murder—Benny’s own client is found dead and the shoes peeking under the curtains at ...

Vanessa Moss, an executive with the National Television Corporation, thinks somebody’s trying to kill her. To protect herself, she engages the services of old classmate and gumshoe Benny Cooperman to go undercover as her personal assistant. Benny discovers a warren of competing executives, backbiting lawyers, arrogant producers, and sycophantic flunkies. But when an NTC employee is murdered, Benny finds out that taking care of Vanessa Moss is a seductive but risky business.Book 10 ...

Benny is, as always, desperate for paying work, but he flatly refuses an invitation to work for Grantham’s most notorious crime boss. But Benny doesn’t have much of a choice when Abram Wise has him kidnapped in the middle of the night and makes him an ultimatum: either Benny takes the case, or his parents and girlfriend may run into some very bad luck. This mobster’s got a long list of enemies in town, but which one is out to kill him?Book 9 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.