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When a wealthy couple dies in what appears to be a tragic car accident, Steve Levitan and his golden retriever Rochester are drawn into a mystery that reaches far beyond the quiet streets of Stewart's Crossing. The victims' twenty-year-old son, Daniel Farahani, seems more comfortable navigating a post-apocalyptic survival game than facing the devastating reality of his parents' deaths. As Steve helps the young man through his grief, disturbing questions begin to emerge. Was the crash really an accident? Or was someone determined to make sure the Farahanis never reached home?

A different side of Kimo Kanapa’aka—raw, intimate, and unapologetically erotic. In Mahu Men, Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka steps out of the crime scene and into a series of charged, deeply personal encounters that explore desire, identity, and connection. Fresh off coming out, Kimo is navigating a new world—one filled with possibility, temptation, and the thrill of discovery. From chance meetings to intense attractions, each story captures a moment of heat, vulnerability, and self-revelation as Kimo explores what he truly wants.

Two gripping mysteries. One unforgettable collection. A suspicious death. A trail of secrets. And a pair of investigators—one human, one canine—who won't let the truth stay buried. In Neil S. Plakcy's "Dog Moves in Mysterious Ways," Steve Levitan and his golden retriever, Rochester, uncover a hidden online world where access is currency—and silence can be deadly.

A dead banker. A hidden fortune. A smuggling route stretching from Europe to Afghanistan. Bodyguard partners Aidan Greene and Liam McCullough thought the worst of the pandemic was boredom. Then an old college friend begs them for help. Ethan Katz, the managing director of a private bank in Luxembourg, has uncovered evidence of a massive money-laundering operation. When a trusted colleague investigating the scheme is killed in a suspicious hit-and-run, Ethan becomes the next target. Threatening messages appear on his car and apartment door, warning him to back off—or die.

Three charming cozy mysteries with heart-- and fur! Stolen treasures, a cane-whacking elderly woman and a couple of dead bodies. Join Steve Levitan and Lili Weinstock as they navigate the treacherous waters of wedding planning-- and murder.

A cutting-edge startup. A dead founder. And secrets that shouldn’t have been coded. When tech entrepreneur Noah Kim is found murdered outside his Honolulu office, homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka and his partner Ray Donne are called in to investigate. Kim’s company, Kahola.ai, promised to transform medical care for Pacific Islanders —blending artificial intelligence with traditional knowledge. Now someone wants that work buried. As Kimo digs into the world of startups, research labs, and competing interests, he uncovers a network of ambition, secrecy, and ethical lines pushed too far.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When a wealthy couple dies in what appears to be a tragic car accident, Steve ‎Levitan and his golden retriever Rochester are drawn into a mystery that reaches far ‎beyond the quiet streets of Stewart's Crossing. ‎ The victims' twenty-year-old son...

A Biblical scroll that could change the world... if Aidan and Liam can keep it and the man who found it safe. Husbands and close-protection partners Aidan Greene and Liam McCullough are called to protect a young Oxford student with a valuable manuscript. Danny Cardozo, a gay, Jewish scholar, has been entrusted with an ancient scroll, a copy of the Biblical book of Leviticus written soon after the destruction of the Second Temple. When villains threaten him, he heads to an isolated home on the resort island of Djerba, off the Tunisian coast.

An Alzheimer’s patient slips away from home on his own and tumbles into the Delaware River. And then Steve’s love Lili suffers the crushing loss of her mother in a Miami Beach hospital. Eckhardt Lalor left behind a fortune in real estate, a fractured family, and a bitter legacy as a city slumlord. Does that add up to murder? There’s no question of what killed Benita Weinstock — a dodgy heart — but her death rocks her daughter’s world, and Steve’s. It will be up to Rochester to solve the crime and heal his humans in this new mystery with heart — and fur.

There’s a new dog in town--a golden retriever named Luke, in training to be a seeing-eye dog. He and Rochester immediately bond, but there’s something odd about Luke’s human, Ben Ji. How can someone so young afford an expensive townhouse on Sarajevo Way? When Ben is shot, Steve begins to discover the lies he has been telling.

One kiss. Two souls. Everything changes. Michael Torani has a problem. He's falling for Daniel Florez. The quiet new boy is brilliant, awkward, and unlike anyone Michael has ever met. Their first kiss should have been unforgettable for all the usual reasons. Instead, it changes Michael forever. After sharing a mysterious soul kiss with Daniel, Michael suddenly finds himself thinking faster, reading at lightning speed, and solving problems that once seemed impossible.

If you love Christmas whodunits, small-town sleuths, and canine partners who always sniff out the truth, this festive double-feature brings together two fan-favorite series: Steve & Rochester from the Golden Retriever Mysteries and Kiki & Gracie from the Kiki Lowenstein Mysteries.

A drifting sailboat. Four bodies. And a cargo that should never have reached Hawaii. When a ghost ship washes up on the Leeward Coast of O‘ahu, Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka —on assignment with the FBI —finds himself at the center of a case unlike anything he’s faced before. The victims are a family. The cargo is far more dangerous. What begins as a baffling tragedy quickly escalates into a high-stakes investigation with international implications.

A cold case. A powerful request. And secrets someone buried for a reason. Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka is asked to investigate a decades-old death—one the military long ago closed and forgot. He should say no. But the request comes from a congresswoman with serious influence over Hawai‘i’s military operations—and deep ties to Kimo’s own extended family. So he takes the case. What begins as a fifty-year-old mystery quickly turns into something far more dangerous. As Kimo digs into the past, he uncovers signs of a cover-up—one that powerful people may still be protecting.

A favor for his mother could cost Kimo everything. Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa'aka is on departmental leave when his mother asks him to do the one thing he shouldn't: Investigate a murder.

The body in the canal belongs to Steve's old friend. Can Steve and Rochester uncover the clues to what happened to him? When his college friend Doug moves to Stewart's Crossing after an ugly divorce, reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan sees a way to pay forward the help he received under similar circumstances. But when Doug dies under mysterious circumstances, Steve and his crime-solving golden retriever Rochester have a new goal: Find the truth behind Doug's death, even if Steve has to risk the freedom he has fought so hard for to do it.

Reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan has built a new life for himself after prison, including a home with his fiancée and his golden retriever Rochester. It matters deeply to him, enough to risk it all to bring justice to a killer in his neighborhood.

Autumn has come to Bucks County, and Steve Levitan has a new job: develop a conference center for Eastern College at Friar Lake. But on his first visit to the property, his golden retriever Rochester makes a disturbing discovery, a human hand rising from the dirt at the lake’s shore.

Peggy was a great friend to Steve when they were teens. Can he help her now as she faces the death penalty? As teens, semi-reformed hacker Steve Levitan admired his friend Peggy because of the way she fought back from a difficult childhood to travel to France and aspire to a college degree and a career as a lawyer.

In "The Bridge Between Us," the mysterious Smiling Dog Café brings estranged ‎siblings Barry and Leah Goldstein together after fifteen years apart. As they navigate ‎their separate griefs—Barry mourning his wife Ellen and Leah recovering from the loss of ‎her husband and unborn child—they discover that healing begins when they confront ‎their shared past.