Down for the Count

by Maxine O'Callaghan

The sixth and final novel in the ground-breaking Delilah West series by Maxine O'Callaghan, a Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award honoree. It's tough times for P.I. Delilah West. She kills a mass shooter at a shopping mall, is hired by a twelve year-old to find his missing Dad...and then she and her wealthy boyfriend's teenage daughter are taken hostage by a brutal kidnapper. But Delilah's troubles are only just beginning...   "The story keeps you turning pages to watch West confront the devils of crime and heart that imprison her. O'Callaghan captures a multicultural California landscape of freeways and fast food, one that reeks of money and stinks of pain and poverty." The Washington Post "Delilah is a tough P.I. with a realistic vulnerability. her mistakes and emotional turmoil have a refreshing realism." South Florida Sun-Sentinel "Clean, springy action and a colorful cast...best of all is the appealing, brassy and vulnerable Delilah." Publishers Weekly

212 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 26, 2020

About the author

Received the Shamus Award, "The Eye" (Lifetime achievment award) in 1999.

Aka Marissa Owens

Reviews

[Michal Patterson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unexpected

The story was fascinating. Typical teen age girls usually don't want their dad's
to remarry. This story took it up a notch Poor Delilah. Then to make it worse
her picture gets in the paper and this low life decides he said going to get rich