A salesman hires Fortune to find the killer of a girl he barely knewFrancesca Crawford is sleeping when the murderer enters her apartment. The door is locked, but the killer is agile, climbing down from the roof, knife in hand. The killer is expert, stabbing Francesca only once, straight through the heart. She doesn't even wake up.John Andera comes to Dan Fortune, the one-armed private investigator, begging him to find justice for Francesca. Andera is a salesman, an ordinary fellow who met the girl—the high-class daughter of an upstate mayor—a few weeks before her death. He was instantly infatuated, so he offers Fortune $2,000 to find the man who killed his young love. But to understand her death, Fortune must learn who she was in life. This girl will prove one of the most perplexing mysteries he has ever faced.

Lynd introduces Dan Fortune, the protagonist-narrator, living in the slums of the Chelsea district of New York which creates the characters of this mystery with social implications as well as excitement.

When Anne Terry goes missing one-armed detective Dan Fortune starts to look into her past and discovers that there is more than one past for the missing actress.

'There was a new beginning. He felt it everywhere, in the sweep of change, in the simple pronouncement of 'Yes we can!''It's 2008 and Norman Price - a moderately successful forty-something playwright living in Chicago - considers the shuddering impact of the financial crash. What's needed, he thinks, is the will for a new existence. When his parents die, one shortly after the other, The New Existence becomes Norman's mantra as he tries to recalibrate his own shaken world. Into Norman's tentative re-building, a couple of bombshells are dropped. His parents' old house has to go on the market, forcing him to revisit the past. And then he receives a mysterious email from a man he has never met but whose name is instantly, painfully, familiar. Norman's new existence is suddenly threatened by past secrets. Michael Collins takes post 9/11 America as the background for a deeply moving novel about complex identities and the fragility of humanity.

One-armed detective Dan Fortune takes on New York's underworld, with nothing to gain....except his life.".........."An excellent novel...skillfully plotted with finely honed suspense.

Astronaut Michael Collins adds a revised chapter to the extraordinary story of his training and participation in the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 flights.

The Last Book is a fast-paced international thriller set in 2016. Anarchy threatens. Suddenly courtesy and tolerance have all but disappeared and tempers flare with fatal results. The streets, subways, and restaurants have become dangerous places. What the hell is going on? While Sarah, a respected ghostwriter, is unwittingly lured into writing the last book in a trilogy for a best-selling author, a ruthless and ambitious corporate giant, Mark Payne, has a secret deadly plan to change the world as we know it—and he must be stopped. From New York to Washington and to Sydney, Australia, the chase is on.