Psi Cops

by Michael Bracken

PSI COPS / Geeks and freaks. / That's what Detective Sergeant Tony Carvelli thinks of Psi Cops until he's faced with a sadistic serial killer who leaves no evidence behind. / In a near-future St. Louis, after sexually-transmitted diseases have been eliminated and sex without commitment is a lifestyle for much of the population, Carvelli investigates the deaths of women dismembered in their own bedrooms. / Carvelli still believes in the old love before sex and investigation before technology. When Psi Cop Colleen Allison is assigned to the case against his wishes -- thanks to his new partner, recently-promoted Detective Phil Palmer -- Carvelli resents her and everything she represents. / Fighting against time and against each other, Carvelli, Palmer, and Allison struggle to find the killer before he strikes again.

210 pages, Paperback

First published December 20, 2000

About the author

Although he is the author of several books—including the private eye novel All White Girls—Michael Bracken is better known as the author of more than 1,300 short stories published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Espionage, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, The Best American Mystery Stories and many other publications.

Bracken is editor of six crime fiction anthologies, including The Eyes of Texas and the three-volume Fedora series, and is co-editor (with Trey R. Barker) of the serial novella anthology series Guns + Tacos.

Bracken served one term as vice president of the Private Eye Writers of America and three terms as vice president of the Mystery Writers of America’s Southwest chapter.