Riley the Exterminator Mystery series by Jeffrey Alan Lockwood (#1-3)
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Overview: Dr. Jeffrey Alan Lockwood is an award-winning author and University of Wyoming professor of Natural Sciences and Humanities. He writes both nonfiction science books, as well as meditations. Lockwood is the recipient of both the Pushcart Prize and the John Burroughs Medal. Lockwood earned a B.S. degree in biology from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, where he was the 1982 recipient of the Brown Award. He received a Ph.D. in entomology from Louisiana State University, after completing a dissertation entitled, The behavioral ecology of the first instar southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula (L.). His career at the University of Wyoming began as Assistant Professor of Entomology before becoming Professor of Natural Sciences and Humanities, then transferring to the philosophy department and teaching in the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1. Poisoned Justice: Origins
What if an exterminator learns that the worst pests have two legs?
When an activist ecology professor is found dead in his hotel room, the police chalk it up to natural causes, but his wealthy and fiery widow is convinced it’s foul play. She needs someone who can operate behind the scenes—in the dark cracks and gritty crevices of San Francisco. Riley the exterminator fits the bill.
Riley’s career as a police detective was cut short when do-gooders saw him beat information out of a child kidnapper. Now running his father’s pest control business, Riley pursues two-legged vermin on the side. Turned out an ex-con can be licensed as an exterminator but not a private eye.
Winged ants and dead flies at the death scene suggest something’s amiss to a man who knows insects. The dead professor’s students, each harboring a secret, reveal that their environmentalist mentor had plans to take down the pesticide industry. But he needed cash for the operation—and that put him on a collision course with a most unusual drug lord.
When Riley’s investigation unexpectedly reveals that the drugs that poisoned his own brother might be connected to the professor’s death, extermination is in order. But he’ll need to join forces with an intoxicating South African beauty—a reluctant ally, armed with lethal poison. Can Riley rid San Francisco of its most deadly vermin?
2. Murder on the Fly
San Francisco, 1981. Danger is in the air and nothing is as it appears. But then, neither is Riley.
The body of a gay cop who committed suicide, a radical commune in the hills above Berkeley, and a pest outbreak that will cost California $10 billion if not controlled would be sufficient problems by themselves. But the maggots don’t match the policeman’s time of death, the hippies aren’t as peaceful as they claim, and the Medfly is spreading faster than it can move on its own.
Knowing that police-detective-turned-exterminator Riley has what is needed—knowledge of both two- and six-legged vermin—an old flame draws him into a perilous search for the mastermind behind the most devastating insect outbreak in the nation’s history. Riley must determine whether the Medfly infestation is the work of a government insider or a radical environmentalist.
As crops are reduced to worm-infested mush, Riley and his loyal crew at Goat Hill Extermination zero in on the perpetrators of gruesome murder, brutal kidnapping, and economic devastation.
But it’s revenge, not money, that has bullets drawing blood and wasps delivering venom in a battle to determine who lives and who dies. Between romance reigniting and terrorism smoldering, Riley knows he’s likely to get burned.
3. Lethal Fetish
What is "normal" in San Francisco? In 1982, sexual experimentation was common. But naked corpses wearing flea collars?
Riley the exterminator is thrust into the kinky corners of a city where the boundary between normalcy and deviancy is blurred—where sex is handcuffed to violence.
This ex-cop’s journey begins at a deviant’s death scene, which leads to a rich kid who finds depraved delight in his six-legged playmates. Following a twisted track through sex shops and vile videos, Riley is soon over his head in terms of the human mind. He joins forces with a brilliant, beautiful psychologist to track a chain of blackmail and extortion into the depths of the human psyche, where degradation is an aphrodisiac.
As Riley questions social norms, he has no doubt that he must work closely with people he finds repulsive—but oddly principled—to infiltrate a secret cell devoted to a bizarre fetish involving insects, which has been driven underground by a holier-than-thou district attorney. The group’s charismatic leader is taking them toward grisly murder to consummate their deviant desires.
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