While on Injured on Duty status, Lauren Riley’s hired
as a private investigator to travel to rural Ireland in
search of a Picasso painting stolen twenty years
earlier in this nerve-shredding thriller.

THE PARTING GLASS

By Lissa Marie Redmond

The Secrets They Left Behind & A Full Cold Moon

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About A Cold Day in Hell

Lauren Riley is an accomplished detective who has always been on the opposite side of the courtroom from her nemesis, slick defense attorney Frank Violanti…

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About Lissa Marie Redmond

Lissa’s first published short story, Falling On Ice, appeared in Akashic Books acclaimed Noir series title Buffalo Noir. Publishers Weekly wrote, “Redmond mixes character, emotion, and formal detection into an irresistible amalgam.”

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THE PARTING GLASS

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While on Injured on Duty status, Lauren Riley’s hired as a private investigator to travel to rural Ireland in search of a Picasso painting stolen twenty years earlier in this nerve-shredding thriller.

An old wound forces Cold Case Detective Lauren Riley onto Injured on Duty leave. Unless she rests she faces the threat of early retirement. However, dreading the prospect of doing nothing for six months, Lauren renews her private investigator license.

She’s soon contacted by Sharon Whitney, the ex-wife of wealthy Buffalo resident – and suspected mob boss – Howard Whitney. During their bitter divorce twenty years earlier a Picasso painting was stolen from their home and never recovered. After the main suspect passes away from ill health in Ireland, Sharon to hires Lauren to locate the painting – before her ex-husband does.

Available for pre-order! Release date: July 6, 2021

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“The partners dance around their powerful feelings in a stunning Irish landscape, making this far more than an ordinary…”

- KIRKUS REVIEWSPraise for "The Parting Glass"

THE SECRETS THEY LEFT BEHIND

Hardcover, paperback, audiobook and on Kindle

Three missing girls, no leads, a vault of dark secrets, and a case that’s getting chillier by the minute, set the stage for this nail-biting procedural from former cold case homicide detective and acclaimed author Lissa Marie Redmond.

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“[An] engrossing mystery… Redmond, a former cold case homicide detective, skillfully doles out the plot twists. Fans of small-town police procedurals will be satisfied.”

- PUBLISHERS WEEKLYPraise for "The Secrets They Left Behind"

“A page-turner whose puzzling mystery and psychological drama are rooted in plausible descriptions of teenage angst.”

- KIRKUS REVIEWSPraise for "The Secrets They Left Behind"

A FULL COLD MOON

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A murder of an Icelandic man during a Full Cold Moon reminds Lauren Riley of a previous case she failed to solve. She is determined not to let it happen again.

Since her partner on the Cold Case team has been out of action after being shot in the line of duty, Lauren Riley has been working Homicide. Her latest case involves an Icelandic man murdered on the streets of Buffalo mere feet from his hotel.

The brutality of the case hits Lauren hard. When she realizes the murder was committed on the night of a Full Cold Moon, it triggers memories of the first cold case she investigated that she’s been unable to solve.

Available now! Paperback available for pre-order! Release date: May 25, 2021

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“A prime character-driven procedural with the added allure of Iceland.”

- KIRKUS REVIEWSPraise for "A Full Cold Moon"

Praise for “A Cold Day In Hell”

“Recommend this one to anyone who loves courtroom dramas where lawyers tear into witnesses like pit bulls. And to anyone hot for a police procedural where tired cops make mistakes but slowly, relentlessly—and with morbid humor—get the job done. Redmond delivers both in one package…The real attraction here is a keyhole view into a world that turns our expectations upside down… Keep your eyes on Redmond, a retired cop who knows how to write.”

- BOOKLIST

“A detective’s complicated past catches up with her when she investigates a murder….The first in a planned series by Redmond, a retired police detective, is an excellent police procedural combined with a psychological thriller.”

- KIRKUS

“Buffalo, N.Y., cold case detective Lauren Riley, the heroine of Redmond’s promising first novel and series launch, is also a licensed PI. It’s in that latter capacity that lawyer Frank Violanti, with whom Lauren has tangled in court, hires her. His 18-year-old godson, David Spencer, has been charged with the second-degree murder…Redmond, a recently retired Buffalo PD homicide detective, keeps everything moving nicely in this well-constructed crime novel.”

- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY